Tag: Solutions

Dynamics 365

Action Parameters referencing deleted entities

While working on a project, I recently encountered a strange behavior in Dynamics 365. I am not sure if this is a bug (or feature), but something that we should be really careful about. One of the entities that we were working on, was created without following the organizational guidelines and had to be recreated. In this particular scenario it is not really a big deal because the project is still in early stages of implementation so changes and cleanup occur on a regular basis.

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Dynamics 365

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portals Source Code Available for On-Premise Customers

On August 24, Microsoft release the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Portals Source Code. The download contains the self-hosted Portals which are available for Dynamics 365 On-Premise. This will allow your to customize the portals per your requirements and deploy then to Dynamics 365 (On-Premise) as well as Dynamics 365 (Online).

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Development, Dynamics 365

Creating an Approval Process

We recently had a requirement to add an approval process to an entity in CRM. This was a custom entity (Comment), where most of the fields were prepopulated from the web, but had a response field that had to go through multiple layers of approval/review. The review process was once the comment was received it would be assigned to a responder, which would then go through manager, legal and director approvals.

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Dynamics 365

CRM 2011 Errors with State Code or Status Code is invalid when deleting a managed solution

After importing a managed solution and making changes to the environment by removing some of the out-of-the-box views for the Contact or Account entity, we encounter an error if we ever try to delete the managed solution. The error is “State code or status code is invalid” or 1 is not a valid status code for state code…”

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