FetchXML Builder July 2020 Release
Category: Tools
New website launched: fetchxmlbuilder.com
Any tool worth its salt deserves a dedicated website. Six years after initial release, FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox finally has its own home on the Internet.
Continue reading “New website launched: fetchxmlbuilder.com”Conditional Unique Auto Number Sequences in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM
A common request for Auto Numbers in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CDS/CRM) is to have one number field with different formats and unique sequences based on data on the record or it’s parents.
I call this “Conditional Unique Auto Number Sequences”.
Continue reading “Conditional Unique Auto Number Sequences in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM” NEW Release: UML Diagram Generator
Read all about the UML Diagram Generator tool that generates PlantUML files from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Common Data Service metadata:
Continue reading “NEW Release: UML Diagram Generator”NEW Release: Power Apps Checker for XrmToolBox
Read all about this new tool utilizing the Power Apps Checker API here: https://powerappschecker.com
Continue reading “NEW Release: Power Apps Checker for XrmToolBox”Create view: Active Contacts in My State
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Common Data Service offer us the querying language FetchXML to retrieve data. Since this is the language used for views saved in the system, we can use FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox to alter the features of views beyond what is possible using platform features, without making them unsupported.
Continue reading “Create view: Active Contacts in My State”The Milliseconds Are Here!
Ever since I started using the Plugin Trace Log for investigation of my plugins around three years ago, I have wondered why we don’t have timestamps with better granularity than seconds.
As I expressed it in an article from 2017:
Continue reading “The Milliseconds Are Here!”Given the CPU power we have today, it is just incomprehensible why we should not get more detail in the timing of plugin execution.
From A Canary in CRM
It is like defining my age by saying I was born sometime during the second half of the 20th century.
Dynamic content in Auto Numbers for Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM
As the creator of the Auto Number Manager tool in XrmToolBox, I get two questions more than any other questions:
How can I number existing records?
How can I add dynamic content to the numbers?
In a previous article I gave my solution to the first question. I will now dive into the second one and show a simple way of adding dynamic information from the numbered entity and related entities into the numbered attribute.
Continue reading “Dynamic content in Auto Numbers for Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM”We create XrmToolBox tools at Dynamics 365 Saturdays!
The community of developers for Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM in general and for XrmToolBox in particular is a great bunch of people. But I wish there were more of us – the more the merrier ?
The D365 Saturday phenomenon with pro bono speakers at a full day event, free of charge for participants, has spread like wildfire over the last couple of years.
The connection to the XrmToolBox is obvious:
- Both were started by CRM heroes (Raz for the Saturdays and Tanguy for the toolbox).
- Both are driven by a passion to share and a love for the platform.
- Both do these things without any ambition to “get rich quick” (or ever).
I got an idea to combine these two phenomena.
Continue reading “We create XrmToolBox tools at Dynamics 365 Saturdays!”Auto Numbering existing records in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM
As the creator of the Auto Number Manager tool in XrmToolBox, I get two questions more than any other questions:
How can I number existing records?
How can I add dynamic content to the numbers?
To answer these questions once and for all, I will post my suggestions in two articles. I will step way outside my comfort zone of coding the solutions and give you strictly no-code alternatives.
Well, I do feel reasonably comfortable, since I wrote the code in the tools we need… ?