Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology

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 t...

13 days ago

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 Ac...

1 month ago

Why We Switched Our Plugin from PreOperation to PreValidation – Dataverse / Dynamics 365

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 stat...

1 month ago

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 man...

1 month ago

Advancing and Finishing a BPF Using RetrieveProcessInstancesRequest and RetrieveActivePathRequest (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)

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 inst...

1 month ago

Finishing (Deactivating) and Reopening a Business Process Flow Using C# Console App (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)

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 C...

1 month ago

Advancing a Business Process Flow Stage Using a C# Console App (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)

In Dynamics 365, Business Process Flows are usually progressed by users through the UI. However, in scenarios like data migration, bulk remedi...

1 month ago

Using a Plugin to Generate Auto-Number Values for Legacy and Reopened Records in Dynamics 365 / Dataverse

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 th...

1 month ago

Solving CS0006: Metadata File Not Found Error in Visual Studio

Recently, we encountered a build error in one of our Dynamics 365 projects where Visual Studio was unable to find metadata files for NuGet pac...

1 month ago

[Tool Showcase – PowerMakerAI] Talk to Your CRM Like a Teammate — Meet PowerMakerAI’s Context-Aware Chatbot

You’ve probably used ChatGPT or Gemini to generate code, write emails, or even debug errors. But what if you could do the same for your Dynami...

1 month ago