Dynamics365… here we go
My blog about the interesting, powerful and varied world of Dynamics365; Microsoft’s flagship CRM, Service and Marketing management platform
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Need Help Choosing A CRM?
A substantial number of CRM projects fail
-Give your project a fighting chance!
Power Automate Not Licensed?
The user 'xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx' does not have a service plan adequate for the non-Standard connection 'Microsoft Dataverse'.
Me: BUT I DO!
How to trigger a Power Automate flow on a Dynamics 365 Many to Many (N:N) relationship
Power Automate doesn’t natively allow you to assign triggers to records attached using many-to-many or N:N relationships. Here’s how you can use a HTTP response to accomplish the same functionality
Update the child flow for action 'Run_a_Child_Flow' to not use 'run-only user' connections.
Fix the error in power automate preventing child-flows to be run.
Request to Azure Resource Manager failed with Power Automate Connection
Some quick troubleshooting tips for those troublesome error messages
How can I use Power Automate to sum child record values in Dynamics 365?
Sum data from Dynamics records easily with FetchXML and update related records as an alternative to using a RollUp Field
How to use an Excel Date Integer in Power Automate
Stuck with Excel giving you an integer for your date in Power Automate? A quick compose calculation can resolve this.
How can I embed an image into a Dynamics email in Power Automate?
Embedding a graphic into a Dynamics email record was proving challenging - here’s how I did it.
How to preserve line breaks using a CDS with Dynamics
I have a Multiline Text field in Dynamics365 that I want to use in my Power Automate Flow. I also want to ensure that the line breaks or carriage returns are preserved and I don’t get a blob of text to use.
Get count of CDS Records Returned from LIST RECORDS Step
Quick reference to common Power Automate code samples for working with Dynamics 365
Dealing With Failed Steps Gracefully
Power Automate is great for fast development of automation with Microsoft365 but how do you automatically handle it when it goes wrong or hits an issue?
Identifying Sharepoint File Locks With Power Automate
The amazing Power Platform can connect to almost any aspect of Microsoft 365 and use their API. Here’s an interesting proof of concept I had to implement for a client that had a rather complex Sharepoint process triggered by a Dynamics365 record.
