Aide-Memoire

Dynamics is changing at such a pace, with such a varied usage I realised I had reached my capacity to remember. I hope my aide-memoire of the challenging issues, problems and great solutions I discovered will help you as well as me.

Sacha

Searching SQL - Finding that one record

Sometimes you need to find more information about an item and all you have is a value or perhaps a GUID from an error. Or perhaps your...

Importing issues, those odd ones in Dynamics 365

Unusual import issues Spaces One you would never think of, is spaces which are not spaces in records. For example the following record...

Increasing the depth of calculations in Dynamics 365

Do you ever find you get an error, where a workflow/plugin sometimes fails. It could be because it's being called by a chain of workflows...

Dynamics 365 Quick way to get more information about an Entity

Based on our understanding from our previous article "Dynamics 365 Quick way to get a record's guid, and what the source data looks...

SSRS - Reporting Options

When linking to reporting service reports either SQL or FetchXML (externally published). You can customise the user experience. No...

Emails in workflows, advanced dynamic values

When creating custom emails in templates it is often sometimes useful to link to other fields in entities not available on the drop down...

Do you have a client which doesn't always create the DNS record as you asked....

A useful poweshell script to return a set of ip addresses and record type from the DNS server on the network, returned in a csv file....