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Tutorials email/flow/HTML/powerautomate/template/XTL 2020-10-242020-10-24 by RaverTux

Creating HTML emails from D365 Power Automate / Flows

A lot of times I am asked by colleagues whether I can help them sending emails from within their Flows. Sending emails using Flows can be done in two ways by default: Either you add a create step in your…

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Tutorials 2019-12-202019-12-20 by RaverTux

Show bing maps with Pin in Dynamics 365 custom entities

The default map control of Dynamics CRM can not be shown by selection from the custom controls. So it is not possible using the form editor, to add the bing maps control to arbitrary entities. Instead, you need to add…

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Tutorials E-Mail/Link/UCI/XTL 2019-01-112019-01-11 by RaverTux

Link to Dynamics 365 records in UCI

Scope With the UCI getting used more and more, some have already noticed that the record links that can be inserted into e-Mails generated from workflows lead to the refreshed UI instead of the UCI. In this post we'll take…

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Tutorials E-Mail/Editor/HTML/Placholder/XTL 2018-10-282018-10-28 by RaverTux

HTML E-Mails with place holders in Dynamics 365

Scope E-Mails in CRM are very simple by default. But what if we want to have styles in them by using HTML? A nice looking editor would be great. This is where Xrm-Html-Templating and XTL join the game. The former…

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Gotchas Bing/Field Service/Mapping Service 2018-08-04 by RaverTux

Field Service Schedule Board – Error contacting mapping service

Scope You're using the Field Service solution for Dynamics 365 CE and encounter the error "Error contacting mapping service" when using the "Find availability" function inside the schedule board. Cause Field Service is trying to contact some Bing servers for…

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Programming Context/Entity/OrganizationService/Update 2018-07-262018-07-26 by RaverTux

Entity updates using change tracker

Scope When working with entity records in plugins and tools, we almost always need to update the records. For updating records, it is a best practice to only send diff updates. There a many reasons to do this, some of…

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Programming Caching/FluentQuery/OrganizationService/Paging/Query 2018-07-222018-07-22 by RaverTux

Writing fluent OrganizationService queries

Scope Programming in the Dynamics environment is often very data driven by its nature. Because of this, most applications and plugins we write need to retrieve data from CRM, for processing it. Usually we use QueryExpressions or FetchXml for doing…

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Gotchas custom action/empty/null/output/pluginexecutioncontext/result 2018-07-212018-07-22 by RaverTux

Custom Action Output is null

Scope So you're using custom actions for invoking actions in CRM and retrieving the results? Good idea! But you might have the issue, that you're setting the output of your custom action using a plugin and see no result /…

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Tutorials E-Mail/Grid/Records/Table/XTL 2018-07-152018-09-16 by RaverTux

Advanced Dynamics CRM E-Mail Templating

Scope Often customers have extended requirements for their mailing purposes. Not only do they often need a lot of information in their E-Mails, they also want to format it nicely and often hit the CRM template editor limit for related…

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Tutorials Contact/Salutation/XTL 2018-07-042018-07-16 by RaverTux

Generating salutations for CRM contacts

Scope In this blog post I'm going to show you how to easily generate salutations for contacts inside your Dynamics365 / Dynamics CRM system. We're going to use XTL, a solution that I developed, for text generating purposes. XTL is…

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