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In Dynamics 365, when a developer publishes a customization, users may see a page refresh. This piece of code appears to be specific to using legacy forms. We will demo this with the Account form. Go to the account, and press F12 to open the developer tools: Search for _metadatacacheversion: Open the JsProvider.ashx version (other files may run during other circumstances). Click the curly braces to Pretty Print the file … Continue reading Posting Customizations Causing Page Refresh in Dynamics 365

ExecuteMultiple in Dynamics 365 is used to execute multiple requests, as opposed to executing requests one at a time. For example, if you wanted to create 5 contacts in Dynamics 365 through code, you could call Create 5 times, or you could call ExecuteMultiple once, with the 5 entity objects defined. This is useful if network latency is an issue. Let’s create a console app that creates 5 contacts using … Continue reading Using ExecuteMultiple C# in Dynamics 365

In this post we will look at how to use Upsert to insert/update a record in Dynamics 365. Let’s say we have a contact in the system, Bob Smith: We would like to do an upsert on Bob Smith. To do this, we need to find his record using a key, so the system can decide whether to do the insert or update. To do this, we use Alternate Keys. … Continue reading Using Upsert In C# Dynamics 365

In Dynamics 365, the formContext provides a reference to a form or form item through JavaScript. The formContext is part of executionContext, and replaces Xrm.Page which is deprecated in version 9+ of Dynamics 365. The form context object model looks like: Let’s go through an example of using the formContext. Let’s add a script to a form when the form loads, for example, a Contact entity form. Let’s add a … Continue reading Using formContext in Dynamics 365