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Lookups – How to Disable ‘Recents’

Lookups – How to Disable ‘Recents’

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In my previous post, I showed how to use Custom Views to use linked entities to filter items in a lookup. As mentioned in the notes, one of the issues with this is that the ‘Recents’ still show and...

Using addCustomView with Lookups

Using addCustomView with Lookups

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I recently wanted to filter a Lookup within Dynamics 365 to show Contacts where the linked Accounts’ Parent Account was a specific Account. The idea being that the user can select any Contact from ...

Dynamics 365 Solution won’t uninstall

Dynamics 365 Solution won’t uninstall

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Whilst uninstalling a managed solution I received an error message stating that one of my entities “did not have a valid QuickFind query”. I checked the entity and there definitely was a valid Quic...

Dynamics 365 & Azure DevOps – Unit Testing

Dynamics 365 & Azure DevOps – Unit Testing

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In a previous post I have shown how to use Azure DevOps (was Visual Studio Team Services) builds with Dynamics 365 Build Tools to export an un-managed solution as a managed solution and then instal...

Dynamics 365 - Unit Testing Plugins

Dynamics 365 - Unit Testing Plugins

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I am an advocate of using unit testing wherever possible. This is because it allows repeatable tests to run, usually in a fraction of a second. Using unit tests allows me to be confident that later...

Dynamics 365 – Show SharePoint Documents

Dynamics 365 – Show SharePoint Documents

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In a previous post, I showed how to enable Dynamics 365 SharePoint integration. This allows you to store attachments in SharePoint instead of Dynamics – which is a lot cheaper and allows for better...