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In Dynamics 365, once you have created a workflow, you can view the workflows that have run against records. Let’s say we have a workflow that runs on an Account, which creates a Task on creation. There are a few ways to check this workflow. Note this workflow is set up as a background workflow. First, go to System Jobs. Filter by Started On: We can also filter the entity … Continue reading View Workflow Process History in Dynamics 365
The following is a code snippet to get a plugin up and running quickly. In NuGet, add: Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreAssemblies sdsd
The Dynamics 365 WebApi can be accessed through a web browser. This can be useful if you are writing code and want to see what the WebApi is returning. To access the WebApi, go to your Dynamics 365 instance and the version of the WebApi you would like to access. For example, to access the 9.0 WebApi, the url would be: https://yourorg.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/ You can see this returns a list of … Continue reading Looking at the Dynamics 365 WebApi through Browser URL
North52 has a Quick Button App that allows you to add buttons to Dynamics 365 forms. In this post we will go through adding one of these buttons. First, install the North52 Quick Button App. Next, we will create a formula that sets a field on the Account. We will set the Description field of an Account to “Important customer”. Note there are many better uses for North52 formulas but … Continue reading Using a North52 Button in Dynamics 365
The North52 Quick Button App allows you to buttons to Dynamics 365 forms, which can then be used to trigger North52 formulas. The App comes in a Dynamics 365 solution. To install the solution, go to: https://www.north52.com/apps/button-app/. Note, ensure North52 BPA is already installed. Select Download this App: Enter your email address and select Request App Download Link: Click on the link to download the solution: Go to Dynamics 365 Solutions … Continue reading Installing the North52 Quick Button App
To find out which speech synthesizers are installed on your windows machine, run the code below. This will tell you the name, gender of the voice, the culture, age, etc: Running this in a console app, on my machine I get:
In this post, we will use the Speech Synthesizer in the System.Speech.Synthesis namespace to convert text to speech. Create a new console app in Visual Studio: Add a reference to System.Speech: Click on the Solution->Configuration Manager: Change the platform to your current platform: Add the code: On running this, your computer will say “Hello World”. To change the voice to another voice, we can set it using SelectVoice: This … Continue reading Text-To-Speech Hello World in Windows
In this post we will call an action from JavaScript. In a previous post, we created an action that takes 2 email inputs, a “from email” and a “to email”. When a case is created, if the case contains the word “bug”, an email is sent from the from email, and sent to the to email. The case is then assigned to the user of the “to email”. Let’s now … Continue reading Calling an Dynamics 365 Action from JavaScript
In Unified Service Desk, there is an action called ShellExecute that allows execution of an application. For example, if we open USD and open the debugger, we can see under the CRM Global Manager ShellExecute action: From USD configuration, we can see the description as: “Launches an application by specifying the complete URL or path to the application. Note: The user must have rights to run the application. The URL or path … Continue reading USD – ShellExecute Action
To uninstall the Unified Service Desk solutions, do the following. In Dynamics 365, go to Settings->Solutions and delete: DynamicsUnifiedServiceDesk – Dynamics Unified Service Desk UiiForMicrosoftDynamicsCRM2011 – User Interface Integration For Microsoft Dynamics 365 USDUnifiedClientCustomization – Usd Unified Client Customization USDCrmWebClientCustomization – Usd Crm Web Client Customization