by The CRM Chap | Sep 13, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Platform, Sales, Service
As we close out my blog series on exam MB-400, I thought it might be useful to compile all previous posts together into a single location. So if you've been following along or are joining for the first time, I hope this post is useful.
by The CRM Chap | Sep 6, 2020 | Databases, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform, PowerShell, Sales, Security, Service, SQL Server, Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Today, we are looking at the final topic for the MB-400 exam – the Data Export Service - a convenient tool to use when performing simplistic integrations involving Dynamics 365 Online or the Common Data Service. What’s more, it’s dead easy to set up too...
by The CRM Chap | Jul 19, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Sales
A relatively new feature within Dynamics 365 Sales is to the ability to generate PDF documents for common entities, via dedicated buttons on forms. But what if you want to disable this functionality? As it turns out, we don't need the Ribbon Workbench to do this…
by The CRM Chap | Apr 19, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise, Field Service, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform, PowerShell, Project Service Automation, Sales, Service, Visual Studio
Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) controls are a new, shiny, thing that Power Platform / Dynamics 365 developers can work with. They are also a subject area within Microsoft exam MB-400. Therefore, in my next post on my series targeting this exam, let’s see how they work.
by The CRM Chap | Apr 12, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise, Field Service, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform, Project Service Automation, Sales, Service
It's taken seven posts into my MB-400 developer's exam series for us to start talking about our first code related topic, client-side scripting using JavaScript or TypeScript. And, as we'll see, this is something you should only really resort to after thoroughly exhausting the capabilities within Business Rules…
by The CRM Chap | Mar 22, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise, Field Service, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform, Project Service Automation, Sales, Service
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform developers should always use Business Rules over JavaScript / TypeScript form functions. Full stop. However, there are situations where the native capabilities within Business Rules are not up to scratch, such as when you start working with multi-select option set fields…
by The CRM Chap | Feb 23, 2020 | Analytics, Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Identity, Microsoft Azure, Sales, Service
The Dynamics 365 / Common Data Service Web API allows developers to leverage a wide variety of functionality, from almost any conceivable location - such as, for example, an Azure Data Factory V2 pipeline. With this in mind, let’s dive in and see how to achieve this.
by The CRM Chap | Feb 16, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform, Sales, Service
This week, we resume my series focusing on Microsoft exam MB-440, by taking a deep dive look at Business Process Flows, a powerful tool that allows you to mirror any process within a model-driven Power App.
by The CRM Chap | Jan 19, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Power Apps, Power Platform, Project Service Automation, Sales, Service
For an exam like MB-400, which targets developers building code-heavy solutions targeting Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform, you'd expect Microsoft to skip a topic like Business Rules entirely. However, they are very much a feature you should use and fully understand.
by The CRM Chap | Jan 12, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Field Service, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Platform, Project Service Automation, Sales, Service
Traditionally, Dynamics CRM developers would find themselves constrained by the capabilities within traditional workflows. With some of the exciting innovations that Power Automate brings to the fore, it becomes possible to do some pretty amazing things, which is why they are a central topic for exam MB-400…
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