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Customer experience | Sales, Customer Insights, CRM

Nishant Rana’s Weblog

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21 Apr 2025
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Using gridContext.refreshRibbon() to Dynamically Show/Hide a Subgrid Ribbon Button...

In Dynamics 365 / Dataverse, sometimes we want to show or hide a ribbon button based on a form field value. But when the button is on a subgrid, it does not refresh automatically when a field changes on the form. We can handle this requirement usi...

Nishant Rana 11,323 Microsoft Employee
15 Apr 2025
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Using External Value property of Choice / Option Set Field for Integration – Dynam...

When working with Choice fields (Option Sets) in Dataverse, we mostly use the label and internal numeric value. But there’s also a lesser-known property — External Value — which can be quite handy, especially in integration scenarios. Below is the...

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14 Apr 2025
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Fixed – Could not find an implementation of the query pattern for source type. ‘Wh...

While working on a LINQ query using early-bound classes in a Dynamics 365 plugin, we encountered a familiar error. “Could not find an implementation of the query pattern for source type. ‘Where’ not found” At a glance, everything looked fine. The ...

Nishant Rana 11,323 Microsoft Employee
07 Apr 2025
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Updating Records Without Triggering Plugins – Bypassing Plugin Execution in Dynami...

Recently, we had to write a small utility—a console application—that would go and update a bunch of existing records in our Dynamics 365 environment. However, we didn’t want any of my custom plugins to trigger during this update. Because the updat...

Nishant Rana 11,323 Microsoft Employee
31 Mar 2025
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Understanding the Hidden Property for Choice Datatype in Dataverse / Dynamics 365

Dataverse provides a flexible way to manage data through choice (option set) fields. One of the newer enhancements is the Hidden property, which allows administrators to hide specific choice values from selection while retaining them in the system...

Nishant Rana 11,323 Microsoft Employee
24 Mar 2025
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Fixed – “Input String Was Not in a Correct Format / The specified domain does not ...

In one of our plugins, we encountered “The specified domain does not exist or cannot be contacted – System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format” error. Basically this issue can arise due to incorrect string formatting, unexpec...

Nishant Rana 11,323 Microsoft Employee
18 Mar 2025
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Visualize Data in a View with Copilot (Preview) – Dataverse / Dynamics 365

The copilot-powered data visualization in views feature, currently in preview, allows us to generate quick and insightful charts from Dataverse table views using natural language. We can select a table view and ask Copilot to generate visualizatio...

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17 Mar 2025
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Identify the Event That Triggered the Flow using the SdkMessage in Dataverse / Pow...

When working with Power Automate (Cloud Flows) for Dataverse, a common scenario is handling multiple triggers efficiently. By default, we often create separate flows for different events, such as Create, Update, or Delete. However, using the SdkMe...

Nishant Rana 11,323 Microsoft Employee