Dustin Miner

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Getting started with XrmDefinitelyTyped

Dustin Miner
posted on September 18, 2021September 14, 2024
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Introduction XrmDefinitelyTyped generates TypeScript declaration files for Dynamics 365 client-side coding (model driven forms). It’s the TypeScript equivalent of CrmSvcUtil. This post

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE

A ‘What’s Coming Up’ Dashboard

Dustin Miner
posted on August 31, 2021January 23, 2022
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Introduction This post describes how to create a simple multi-stream interactive ‘what’s coming up’ dashboard. The dashboard represents a form of calendar which displays what events

JavaScript applied to Dynamics 365

Dustin Miner
posted on August 20, 2021September 26, 2024
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Listed below are some examples of how I’ve seen JavaScript applied to Dynamics 365 JS ‘Common’ Code Snippets Remove {} from a GUID Update a field that occurs multiple times on a

Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE

C# Plugin calling an external REST API

Dustin Miner
posted on August 5, 2021November 9, 2024
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This post provides a simple example of how a Dynamics 365 C# plugin can connect to an external REST API (i.e. sitting outside of the Dynamics 365 environment). (The class used to achieve this being

Navigate Stages of a Business Process Flow

Dustin Miner
posted on July 24, 2021November 9, 2024
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This post describes, at a high level, how to programmatically navigate stages of a business process flow (BPF). It also describes how to control what’s presented on the Dynamics 365 form at

Posted in Business Process Flow, Data Migration, Dynamics 365 CE

Migrate data from a legacy system into Dynamics 365

Dustin Miner
posted on June 12, 2021November 7, 2024
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This post steps through the migration of data from a legacy system (the legacy data being extracted into spreadsheets) and into a Dynamics 365 environment. Specifically the migration of contacts,

Posted in Facebook

Download leads from the Facebook API issue

Dustin Miner
posted on June 3, 2021August 14, 2024
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This post describes downloading leads from the Facebook API of an advertising campaign managed by an advertising

Posted in Azure, Power Automate

Import a CSV file into Power Automate

Dustin Miner
posted on April 19, 2021September 20, 2024
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This post describes an example of how to read a CSV file from an Azure file share and parse the contents of the file into an array in Power

Posted in Canvas Apps, Dataverse

Create records in Dataverse via a Canvas App

Dustin Miner
posted on April 2, 2021September 21, 2024
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This post describes an example of how to submit data from a Canvas App’s edit form into

Posted in Dataverse, Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript, Power Automate

Handle time zone correctly in Power Automate

Dustin Miner
posted on March 20, 2021October 2, 2024
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Consider the situation where Power Automate retrieves a date time value from Dataverse and incorrectly specifies the value as a day before the correct date. (As a result of not handling the time zone