Introduction Previously on Timeline Connector Adventures: in Part 1 we laid the groundwork and defined the connector’s structure, and in Part 2 we tackled record fetching and filtering like responsible adults. Now we move to the glamorous part of the job: rendering UI elements in a way that doesn’t look like a digital landfill. In this post […]
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In Part 1 we built the basic shape of a custom timeline connector: defining the interfaces, wiring up the core methods, loading data, and making the control happy enough to render your records. Now it’s time for something users will actually notice: filtering. Filtering is the magic that lets them stop […]
There’s a cool Power Platform feature that on first glance makes you want to use it but as you try you notice that it is unnecessarily complex and there’s no real documentation describing how to correctly implement it. As you might have guessed from the topic, this feature is the […]
Hi, short blog post today. Again I was super exited with new features Microsoft brings to the table with the latest release waves. One of them was a highly requested and anticipated feature – possibility to relate one activity with multiple records in the system. For years we had to […]
Photo by Charanjeet Dhiman on Unsplash Short post today. Some time ago I was developing plugins for a new customer and I decided to start using dependent assemblies. After initial setup everything worked and I started writing some code. Everything looked OK but problems started when I tried to debug the code. I […]
Here’s some automation that can easily be done using no-code approach. Last week I got home late and saw my wife still working on some stuff. It turned out that she needed to make some description documents for around thousand invoices for one of her customers. She told me she […]
Communication is one of the most critical aspects of everyday life. IT Projects are no exception. Effective communication within a team, between team members and with stakeholders can make or break the success of any project. What COVID showed is we can work remotely. We can be effective and there’s […]
Photo by Dan DeAlmeida on Unsplash For several years I’ve been watching customers and companies struggle implementing Agile methodologies. Too many times people think that it is enough to hire an agile/scrum coach and after a week the project is run agilely. Also, when people think agile, they most often than not think […]
The other day I was doing an audit for one customer who reported strange behavior of Dynamics CRM. The solution was working very good in everyday scenarios but started to throw system errors when the users got more experienced. Internal Dynamics functions, no logs, no trace, nothing. Where to begin? […]
Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash Want to play with predicting the upcoming future of Dynamics 365? Good luck with that 🙂 World of Dynamics 365 is changing rapidly. I feel like yesterday we were stuck in plugins, custom apps, web resources and javascripts (or typescripts) when doing big and complicated projects. I […]