Category: Web

Dynamics 365, Power Automate, Web

Connecting to MS Power Automate Flow from a Web Application

It is a very trivial scenario that we would want to create a Common Data Service entity record from a web page. An example can be a contact us page or request for help that would create a lead or a case in Microsoft Dynamics backend. Although Dynamics Portals (and now Power Apps Portals) are available for this kind of integration, many organizations still use other types of web applications and they need to integrate with the Common Data Service, such as various web to lead products.

Business Solutions, Development, Dynamics 365, Portals, Web

Changing the details page link url for Entity Lists

When displaying entity lists on a web page, there is usually a default column in a view which is displayed as a hyperlink. The link to the page is displayed based on the Web Page for Details View and the ID Query String Parameter Name attributes on the Entity List form (as shown in the image below). The problem is, what happens if my page that is displaying the Entity List already has query string parameters, and you want to keep those parameters on the next page that you are going to display.

Business Solutions, Development, Dynamics 365, Portals, Web

Adding masking to form controls in Dynamics Portals

It is a pretty known practice today, that when creating a web application that requests data from customers, certain fields are masked so that the system can prevent the entry of incorrect data. This has been done in desktop applications for a long time and is now also very common in web based applications.

Business Solutions, Dynamics 365, Online Services, Web

JavaScript Web Files in CRM Portals

As in any project, either CRM or Web application, the requirement to have JavaScript libraries that can be accessed across multiple files is common. In Dynamics 365 Portals, the use of Web Files is how we have the ability of create files that will be shared across the entire portal, or possibly only sections of the Portal. These common files are stored in the Web Files entity. This issue is that when we try to add a JavaScript web file, we get an error that the attachment is blocked. Web Files use the Notes entity to store the actual files that we add to the Web File entity. 

Web

Today’s IT Forecast: Abundant Cloud Computing

Meteorologists possess the uncanny ability to be almost right almost all of the time. Now that doesn’t always help when you’re planning the company picnic, but reports of a 70% chance of precipitation does, at the very least, encourage the party planner to rent a tent. What weather men and women are unable to do, however, is predict weather trends for the years ahead. (Global warming controversy notwithstanding. . .)

Web

Will I Google It? Yahoo It? or Bing It?

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is now publically available, allowing you to decide whether Microsoft’s latest efforts has the power to take on Google. Bing is available at www.bing.com and replaces Live Search. Bing is taking off in a big way in the United States. July market share averaged Bing at 16.28%, Yahoo at 10.22% and Google at 71.99% (statcounter.com). Bing will give Google some competition but, the verdict is still out on whether Bing will win over Google.