Hi Everyone, I was going through the latest features that were coming in the next release and found the feature of visualizing the data quickly from Model Driven App via Power BI. Here is more information about the same. There’s a new way to visualize your model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365 data stored within Dataverse. With a single click, Power BI will automatically generate a set of visuals for you to explore and find insights within your data. Follow the below steps to enable this feature on your App. This feature is App specific, so select the Model Driven App and choose ‘Edit in ..read more

Hi Everyone, Today I was going through the latest features and found a setting on Collaboration under the Features, here is more information on the same. When you are working on the word document or excel, we could have worked on a few of those documents with other coworkers at the same time and you could have observed on the document the people that were collaborating on the document simultaneously with you. The same thing is also available on Microsoft Teams when you are working on a document. Now we have the same feature available on Model-Driven Apps. Collaboration is instrumental to organ ..read more

Hi Everyone, Today I was working with some user and somehow he was not able to Save and Print buttons on the report and the same were visible for me. Very obviously, it would be a security role which is hiding the buttons as I am able to see the same with Admin Role. After some checking, I came to know that we have to give Print and Export to Excel privileges under the Business Management tab to show the buttons. And it worked. Hope this helps. — Happy 365íng Gopinath ..read more

Hi Everyone, Today we have enabled 2021 Release Wave 2 on our instance and were checking new features. To check the things, I tried to create a contact and have observed an option as Advanced Lookup. Clicking on the button, opens the Advanced Lookup Grid. I am super excited after seeing it as I assume we went back to my old days where Lookup was easy to search and view. We can search, change Views, filter to show only records owned by logged in users etc.. We can also edit the records without navigating anywhere and not losing existing context, the system opens the record as a popup to edit ..read more

Hi Everyone, Today we have enabled 2021 Release Wave 2 on our instance and on just opening the one of the Model Driven Apps, have observed a small icon as Column Options just beside Advanced Filtering. This new option Column Options comes with the below features. Add new columns, from current or related tables. Remove columns. Change the order of columns in the grid. On clicking on the button, it opens a small popup on the right side of the screen as below. By default, it automatically shows the columns which were already added and we can use Add columns to add more columns. The beauty, yo ..read more

Hi Everyone, Today I was testing something and suddenly the system started an exception as mentioned below. The user with SystemUserId = “GUID” in OrganizationContext = “GUID” is not licensed, and it’s SystemUserAccessMode=0 is not either of (NonInteractive=4, SetupUser=1) This clearly tells us that we are using a user account somewhere which is not licensed. Here are the steps to be followed to solve the issue. Find out the user with GUID. Check all processes where Owner equals the user of GUID that was shown in the log and assign all those to existing enabled user/service account. Check ..read more

Hi Everyone, Today I was writing a JavaScript to some alert message to the user. To fulfill my requirement, I have to show two messages in the same box and I have written the code as below. var alertStrings = { confirmButtonLabel: "Ok", text: "Line 1\n Line 2", title: "Sample title" }; var alertOptions = { height: 120, width: 260 }; Xrm.Navigation.openAlertDialog(alertStrings, alertOptions).then( function (success) { console.log("Alert dialog closed"); }, function (error) { console.log(error.message); } ); Somehow, I felt ..read more

Hi Everyone, Whenever we do some changes in JavaScript, Form Changes etc. in Dynamics 365, we all know we must hard reload the browser. And sometime, even hard reload might not work for the first time and we reload the page multiple times to get the changes. Here is the simple to clear cache and hard reload the browser and you see the changes immediately. Open Dynamics 365 on Chrome Browser and open Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I) Put the mouse on Refresh Icon and right click. You will three options as shown below and select “Empty Cache and Hard Reload” This option will clear the cache and ..read more

Hi Everyone, We all know that a lookup pointing to multiple tables was an ask from many customers. Although we have a Partylist field available on Email entity, we don’t have any control to create the same as a Custom Field. Our voice has been heard by Microsoft and released Multi-Table Lookup in Dynamics 365. For now, creation of this lookup is allowed via C# code or Web API. Here is the code and explanation for the same. I have four entities named as Vehicle, Motorcycle, Trucks and Cars. We need a lookup on Vehicle entity which hold information about all other three entities. I did run the b ..read more

Hi All, I was going some latest changes/updates of D365 and found that are some good changes in terms of Licensing as below. Reducing the price for both Power Apps Per App and Per User plans Simplifying the Power Apps Per App plans to focus on truly a single app Extending the promotional offers until these new official changes take effect on October 1st The following Power Apps licensing changes will go into effect on October 1, 2021: The Power Apps per user plan will be priced at $20 per user/month, a decrease from the previous price of $40 per user/month. The plan will be available across M ..read more