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Dynamics CRM: Create Plugin Project Easier + Faster!

Apr 24, 2021

Creating plugin projects in the past is not a simple task. You need to remember a lot of steps to make it. From what I remember the steps are: Create .csproj, set .NET Framework 4.6.2, and Install Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreAssemblies, etc. You can follow this link for the detailed...

Dynamics CRM Client Scripting: addCustomFilter and addPreSearch

Apr 23, 2021

The most common requirement that usually we need to apply is filtering the lookup dynamically based on the state of the current attribute. For example, you have a Custom Approval entity (table) that got a lookup to Customer and Custom Document. Then when the user on the Custom...

How To Setup Bootstrap On Your PCF Project

Apr 16, 2021

How many of you already know about PCF (PowerApps Component Framework) control? A framework that lets us (developers) create customized UI to be used in PowerApps. Because we are talking about customized UI and I'm a pure programmer, making use of Bootstrap is always a way to go...

Dynamics CRM: Setup PowerApps.UIAutomation.Api for The UI Testing

Mar 26, 2021

Do you know that we can do UI Testing easily in Dynamics CRM? In this blog post, we will learn about how to set up a solution project for doing UI testing using the PowerApps.UIAutomation.Api nuget package. Like the naming, UI testing means that testing that being done...

Exploration: Dynamics CRM Client Scripting - Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects

Mar 19, 2021

Do you know that in Xrm.Utility object now has a nice function called lookupObjects? When we call this function, it will help us open a nice dialog that lets us choose (single or multiple) records and return to us an array of the selected data. We can pass lots of combinations of...

Dynamics CRM: Implement Virtual Entity - Part 2

Mar 12, 2021

Last week, we already learned how to build a simple code to get data from Web-API to project the result in RetriveMultiple message that you can access here. Now we will continue to implement advanced scenarios for filtering, sorting, and paginating the data. Filtering + Sorting...

Dynamics CRM: Integrate to Other Source System Easier using Power Automate

Feb 20, 2021

I have a lot of experience integrating Dynamics CRM with the other source systems that required a lot of code to be built in the plugin. We need to connect to Web API > parse the response > mapping the response > then verify the result. If you ask me to do it in the code, sure it...

Dynamics CRM: Simplify Development with Custom API for Reusability

Feb 5, 2021

Dynamics CRM introduced a preview feature (Custom API) for developers to make code reusability easier. For instance, the function that I used a lot is to take the current user's Teams. I always have a requirement if the User is under team "A", then some attributes need to be...