FetchXML Builder July 2020 Release
Tag: XrmToolBox
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”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… ?
We created an XrmToolBox tool at Dynamics 365 Saturday Stockholm!
Last Saturday some 100+ experts, partners and user of Microsoft Dynamics 365 met up at the Microsoft offices in Stockholm, Sweden for a day packed with content at the Dynamics 365 Saturday event.
I delivered two sessions at the event, and in one of them I took on a somewhat challenging session called
Continue reading “We created an XrmToolBox tool at Dynamics 365 Saturday Stockholm!”Let’s build an XrmToolBox tool!