Blogs

You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.

Dynamics 365 Community Blogs

Topics

Blogs

Featured

Customer experience | ...

Using the Lookup function to create reports on multiple DataSets

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (1)

Customer experience | ...

Solution Layers

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (2)

Customer experience | ...

Error importing solutions - "The 'options' attribute is invalid"

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (0)

Customer experience | ...

Plugins in the sandbox, and why you don't get System.Security.Permissions.Secu...

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (0)

News and Announcements

Check out the Community Spotlight Video Series

Latest blog posts

View all

Using the Lookup function to create reports on multiple DataSets

With Dynamics 365 Online, the greatest thing I miss compared to OnPremise is the relative limitation on what you can do with reports, as FetchXml is not so powerful as SQL. One option is to use the Data Export Service to get the data into a SQL da...

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (1)

Solution Layers

In Dynamics 365 Online, you may have recently noticed a new button within an unmanaged solution, 'Solution Layers'. I first saw this appear around 17th Mar 2019, and it's a welcome tool to help understand more what happens with multipl...

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (2)

Error importing solutions - "The 'options' attribute is invalid"

I hope that this post will be short-lived, and few people need it, but I had an issue today in Dynamics 365 v9.1 (version 1710 (9.1.0.638) for completeness), where a solution file failed to import. The error occurred on initial parsing on the solu...

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (0)

Plugins in the sandbox, and why you don't get System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermis...

A relatively common error with plugins is "Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed". This is the gene...

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (0)

What's in a name - CRM, Dynamics 365, CDS

Now that I've restarted posting on this blog, I'm struggling to name the technologies consistently. It used to just be CRM (or Microsoft CRM, or Dynamics CRM, or Microsoft Dynamics CRM), but now it's Dynamics 365, or Dynamics 365 for C...

David Jennaway

14,065

Like (0)

Community site session details

Community blogs

Featured