Specialist in .NET, Dynamics 365 / Portals, Azure, web development, and programming. Always exploring something new.
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11 Mar 2021
Exporting the default solution used to be possible, now it's a feature limitation. This makes me sad.
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23 Feb 2021
I think I've just found a gap in the liquid filters in portals. There isn't a filter that will properly escape text for use in JSON. There's escape (i.e. HTML escape), xml_escape, and url_escape, but no json_escape.
Someone please prove me wrong!
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23 Feb 2021
It looks like this is a known limitation. Here's an existing idea where a json filter has been proposed (from 2 years ago! 😥)
powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/…
Please up-vote the idea so that msft actually pays attention to this.
18 Feb 2021
The web interface for reviewing pull requests in Azure DevOps has two user interfaces for comparing files. You could be unintentionally allowing undesirable changes to get introduced.
Please mind your white space in Azure DevOps pull requests alanmervitz.com/2021/02/18/p…
13 Feb 2021
Sending and receiving emails from Dynamics 365 has always been something I’ve found to be a challenge to setup. I was able to accomplish this using a Dynamics 365 queue.
Email Setup for Dynamics 365 Queues using IMAP/SMTP alanmervitz.com/2021/02/12/e…
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18 Jan 2021
It was a long 3 months waiting to find out the results because I took it as a beta exam, but thankfully I passed! youracclaim.com/badges/6e2ac…
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15 Jan 2021
I read this promising blog post:
Source code files for Canvas apps powerapps.microsoft.com/en-u….
My feedback with ideas are here: Ideas to make .msapp files 'source code' (i.e. developer) friendly
github.com/microsoft/PowerAp….
Thumb up my GitHub issue if you agree with what I've said 😀
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14 Jan 2021
This seems like a variant of tasks in a backlog, but for business users. Key takeaway, take something developers do, enhance it with a few social features, and you have your next software product 😛
Use the Innovation Backlog to manage app and flow ideas powerapps.microsoft.com/en-u…
1 Jan 2021
The end of xRM Portals Community Edition alanmervitz.com/2020/12/31/t…
Read my post for my retrospective of the project, and leave a comment if you have your own parting words to share.
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21 Dec 2020
I've written a slightly longer blog post of my previous tweet.
Announcing the CrmDataPackager PowerShell module alanmervitz.com/2020/12/20/a…
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17 Dec 2020
I've released the new PowerShell module, CrmDataPackager, that lets you unpack Configuration Migration data zip files into separate files per record, m2m relationship, and even individual fields.
This helps you achieve "ALM" for your Dynamics 365 / Power Apps data.
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17 Dec 2020
The first thing to do is run Expand-CrmData on your zip file. You'll get a folder with all the records in separate folders. Documentation is at github.com/amervitz/CrmDataP…
This gets commited to source control, and records and fields are much easier to review in pull requests.
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17 Dec 2020
When you need to import your data, run Compress-CrmData on the folder and you'll get back a zip file that can be imported using the Configuration Migration Tool. Documentation is at github.com/amervitz/CrmDataP….
You now have ALM for your data.
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10 Dec 2020
Help decide the name for a PowerShell module to become the new home of the Compress-CrmData and Expand-CrmData functions currently in Adoxio.Dynamics.DevOps.
They're analogous to the pack and unpack of Solution Packager, but for configuration data.
Other options in the image.
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10 Dec 2020
Poll doesn't seem to be working? Try vote here.
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DataPackager
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ConfigurationPackager
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Xrm.DataPackager
17%
Xrm.ConfigurationPackager
6 votes • Final results
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11 Dec 2020
Here's one more name I'm thinking of: CrmDataPackager
I like it because the noun (CrmData) of the functions (Expand-CrmData / Compress-CrmData) becomes part of the module name.
8 Dec 2020
I don't get 'digital signatures' which are just an image of a signature. They seem like the perfect way to impersonate someone...am I wrong?
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6 Nov 2020
I'm a little late to the party, but this is huge! Having access to the relevance search via a supported API has been a long time desire. Dynamics 365 can now become the basis of your own internal search engine🔎
Introducing the Relevance Search API powerapps.microsoft.com/en-u…
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5 Nov 2020
I came across some code using this technique recently and didn't know this was possible.
Execute a workflow programmatically from PowerApps Portals/ Dynamics 365 workflows debajitcrm.wpcomstaging.com/…
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