Power Platform pro-code insights, Dynamics 365 deep dives, and developer tools from Mike!.https://mikefactorial.com/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/10-facts-about-boston-365-saturday-on-1-26-19/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/10-facts-about-boston-365-saturday-on-1-26-19/Dynamics 365 Saturday will be in Boston, MA on January 26th. You can register and view more about the event here.Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:03:29 GMTCommunityhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/365-saturday-washington-d-c-in-pictures/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/365-saturday-washington-d-c-in-pictures/Here's what happened in pictures at the first Dynamics 365 Saturday in Washington D.C. Thanks to @BillTsaiTechGuy for the great shots!Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:42:27 GMTCommunityhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/azure-ad-url-for-oauth-with-multi-tenant-dynamics-365-applications/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/azure-ad-url-for-oauth-with-multi-tenant-dynamics-365-applications/AuthenticationContext authContext = new AuthenticationContext(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings);Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:58:34 GMTDevelopmentAzurehttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/building-plugin-packages-in-ci-cd-automation/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/building-plugin-packages-in-ci-cd-automation/If you follow the recommended practices using the Power Platform CLI for exporting and unpacking solutions in CI/CD pipelines, you can use the `solution add-reference` command to add code-first componMon, 17 Feb 2025 04:19:22 GMTDevelopmentPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/copying-dynamics-365-portal-web-form-and-more/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/copying-dynamics-365-portal-web-form-and-more/How to Copy Dynamics 365 Portal Web Forms and more. — a post from Mike Factorial about Power Platform and Dynamics 365 development.Fri, 16 Nov 2018 02:17:48 GMTDynamics 365Tips and Trickshttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/create-a-regular-expression-validator-for-microsoft-flow-2/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/create-a-regular-expression-validator-for-microsoft-flow-2/Currently, Power Automate doesn't support Regular Expression validation and validating emails using the 'contains' condition may not be sufficient. While the specific scenario was for validating emailThu, 15 Oct 2020 21:35:45 GMTPower PlatformDevelopmenthttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/direct-query-sql-virtual-entities/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/direct-query-sql-virtual-entities/Until recently, however, you could only create / use Virtual Entity providers that reached out to external APIs via web protocols. The recently enabled ability to reach out directly to Azure SQL fromSat, 15 Aug 2020 15:40:32 GMTDevelopmentDynamics 365https://mikefactorial.com/blog/flow-everything-calling-synchronous-flows-from-cds-and-d365/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/flow-everything-calling-synchronous-flows-from-cds-and-d365/While I appreciate the recommendation to run my background workflows in Microsoft Flow, and will certainly do it whenever possible. It's unfortunate that only my async processes can live in Flow sinceThu, 29 Aug 2019 20:58:00 GMTPower PlatformDevelopmenthttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/heres-something-you-can-do-that-you-shouldnt-custom-css-in-dynamics-forms/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/heres-something-you-can-do-that-you-shouldnt-custom-css-in-dynamics-forms/if (!myWindow.document.getElementById('customSCCss')) {Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:53:08 GMTDynamics 365Tips and Trickshttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/introducing-dynamics-365-universal-search-for-xrmtoolbox/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/introducing-dynamics-365-universal-search-for-xrmtoolbox/I was inspired by my ignorance to build this tool. Which, I think is a pretty good reason to build something.Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:29:24 GMTToolsPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/introducing-pac-ui-a-new-xrmtoolbox-tool-for-power-platform-command-line-functions/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/introducing-pac-ui-a-new-xrmtoolbox-tool-for-power-platform-command-line-functions/That’s why I created Power Platform CLIx (or 'Clix' for short). The tool allows you to explore and run power platform command line functions using a graphical user interface inside of XrmToolBox. WithMon, 19 Feb 2024 20:21:07 GMTToolsPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/introduction-to-developing-dynamics-365-web-resources-leveraging-knockout-js-and-custom-actions/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/introduction-to-developing-dynamics-365-web-resources-leveraging-knockout-js-and-custom-actions/The requirement was to build a dashboard that displayed the status of certain integrations with Dynamics 365 and data related to the integrations status. I went online to find an open source HTML tempTue, 19 Feb 2019 23:45:08 GMTDevelopmentDynamics 365https://mikefactorial.com/blog/no-code-appsource-packaging/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/no-code-appsource-packaging/[](https://github.com/TheCRMLab/CRMEasyPackageDeploy)Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:43:49 GMTPower PlatformDevelopmenthttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/quick-fix-for-downloading-power-apps-sdk-tools/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/quick-fix-for-downloading-power-apps-sdk-tools/The error wasn't really specific, but a quick Google search did lead to a solution on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41618766/powershell-invoke-webrequest-fails-with-ssl-tls-secuTue, 04 Aug 2020 02:52:00 GMTTips and TricksDevelopmenthttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/search-your-metadata-with-universal-search/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/search-your-metadata-with-universal-search/Several months ago after releasing the last feature I'd hoped to include in the tool, the ability to search on related lookups and picklists, I polled the community on what feature I should implementThu, 12 Dec 2019 23:46:33 GMTToolsPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/solution-with-id-does-not-exist-when-staging-for-upgrade/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/solution-with-id-does-not-exist-when-staging-for-upgrade/Today, I was attempting to stage a solution for upgrade in order to deprecate a few fields that I was no longer using and wanted to remove completely from my Development / Stage and UAT environments.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:16:02 GMTDynamics 365Troubleshootinghttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/switching-microsoft-365-personas-in-google-chrome/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/switching-microsoft-365-personas-in-google-chrome/If you're a Dynamics 365 or Office 365 Developer or Admin or Customizer that has more than one login for your 365 environment you've certainly dealt with this issue before. It's particularly frustratiThu, 29 Nov 2018 20:45:22 GMTTips and Trickshttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/the-journey-begins/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/the-journey-begins/The Journey Begins — a post from Mike Factorial about Power Platform and Dynamics 365 development.Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:57:56 GMTGeneralhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/universal-search-export-to-excel/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/universal-search-export-to-excel/The first tool I thought of as an example of this type of functionality, was FetchXml Builder, by Jonas Rapp. in FetchXml Builder you can open the results of a query in Excel after getting the resultsSat, 08 Feb 2025 22:25:55 GMTToolsPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/universal-search-for-solution-source-files/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/universal-search-for-solution-source-files/Two good examples of Power Platform components that aren't easily searched, today, are Canvas Apps and .NET Plugins. Both store some of their information inside of tables in Dataverse that you can seaSat, 23 Mar 2024 22:17:23 GMTToolsPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/universal-search-search-all-the-things/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/universal-search-search-all-the-things/When I first released Universal Search there were a few search scenarios I didn't address. In particular, you couldn't search for records based on the human readable value of picklist and lookup fieldSat, 20 Jul 2019 06:29:29 GMTToolsPower Platformhttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/updating-organizationally-owned-entities-in-dynamics-365-to-user-owned-using-crm-snapshot/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/updating-organizationally-owned-entities-in-dynamics-365-to-user-owned-using-crm-snapshot/As I thought about the question I began to realize that CRM Snapshot may simplify this process somewhat so I sat down to create a video on how one might accomplish this task using the tool. As the queThu, 21 Feb 2019 16:32:01 GMTDynamics 365Tips and Trickshttps://mikefactorial.com/blog/why-are-we-building-games-for-powerapps/https://mikefactorial.com/blog/why-are-we-building-games-for-powerapps/There's been a lot of publicity on social media around games built on the PowerApps platform and there's a legitimate concern that business users won't understand the value of PowerApps for building bSat, 03 Nov 2018 19:56:11 GMTPower Platform