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Renaming Sitemap Display Name in Dataverse / Dynamics 365

While working with a model-driven app in Dataverse, we needed to change the display name of the sitemap. What made this interesting was that there is no option in the UI to rename the sitemap display name directly. After exploring the UI options a...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Fixed: Audit History Page Not Loading (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)

Recently, we ran into an issue where the Audit History page stopped loading on the form. Interestingly, the problem was limited only to the Account forms. Whenever we tried to open Audit History, we received the generic error below: An error has o...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Why We Switched Our Plugin from PreOperation to PreValidation – Dataverse / Dynami...

We had a business requirement to block the closing of a Quote as Lost under certain conditions. Instead of leaving the quote in an Active state, we wanted the system to explicitly move it back to Draft and show a clear error message to the user ex...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Using the Restore Message to Recover Deleted Records in Dataverse

Accidental data deletion in Dataverse happens more often than we expect. A bulk delete job, an incorrect Power Automate flow, or incorrect manual delete can remove important records in seconds. Instead of restoring the environment, Dataverse provi...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Advancing and Finishing a BPF Using RetrieveProcessInstancesRequest and RetrieveAc...

In earlier posts, we looked at how to move a Business Process Flow (BPF) stage and finish the process by directly updating the BPF entity instance. In this post, we’ll use RetrieveProcessInstancesRequest and RetrieveActivePathRequest to move a Bus...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Finishing (Deactivating) and Reopening a Business Process Flow Using C# Console Ap...

In the previous post, we explored how to move a Business Process Flow (BPF) to the next stage using a console application, with the Phone to Case Process as a working example. Advancing the BPF stage, however, is only part of the lifecycle. Even a...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Advancing a Business Process Flow Stage Using a C# Console App (Dataverse / Dynami...

In Dynamics 365, Business Process Flows are usually progressed by users through the UI. However, in scenarios like data migration, bulk remediation, or backend automation, we may need to move a BPF stage programmatically. Here we will cover one of...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee
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Using a Plugin to Generate Auto-Number Values for Legacy and Reopened Records in D...

In one of our recent Dynamics 365 / Dataverse projects, we ran into one issue with auto-number fields. We had configured an auto-number for the custom_id field on the Opportunity table. The format used a prefix of QU- followed by eight digits, res...

Nishant Rana 11,325 Microsoft Employee