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Drawer Lookup Control in Dynamics 365 (A better lookup experience on mobile)

I recently came across a small but useful addition to the Dynamics 365 / Power Apps lookup experience: the Drawer Lookup Control. With the sta...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 4 days ago 6

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Export Bookable Resource Working Hours using ExpandCalendar (Dynamics 365 Field Service)

Recently we had a requirement to export the working hours of Bookable Resources from Dynamics 365 for a specified date range and make that inf...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 11 days ago 7

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Making a Field Read-Only in Business Process Flow (BPF) – Dataverse / Dynamics 365

A common requirement with Business Process Flows is this: the user must capture all the required details on the form before they are allowed t...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 18 days ago 7

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How to Enable Microsoft 365 Copilot in Model-Driven Apps

Microsoft 365 Copilot brings conversational AI directly into Model-Driven Apps, allowing users to ask natural language questions about Dataver...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 1 month ago 17

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AB-100 Last-Minute Revision Cheat Sheet (Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect)

Recently, I cleared the Microsoft Certified: Architecting Agentic AI Business Solutions (AB-100) exam. While preparing, I ended up creating th...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 1 month ago 19

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Column Visualizations for Grids / Views (Preview) –Dataverse / Dynamics 365

Power Apps now lets us render a column’s data as a small graphic in the grid – a gauge, a sparkline, a colored bar, or stars – instead o...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 1 month ago 14

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Business Process Flow Error: “Participating entity record of stage: X is not valid” (0x80040216) (Dynamics 365 / Dataverse)

Scenario Working on a custom multi-entity Business Process Flow (Opportunity → Quote) recently, we ran into this error while trying to reactiv...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 1 month ago 18

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Comparing Web Resources (JavaScript) Across Multiple Dataverse Environments Using a Console App

We recently refactored a large JavaScript solution — replacing a number of deprecated methods with their supported equivalents, along with som...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 1 month ago 21

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Power Platform Environment Not Showing Up in Maker Portal & Power Platform Admin Center (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)

Recently, we ran into an interesting issue while working with a Dynamics 365 / Dataverse environment. Even though the user was assigned the Sy...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 2 months ago 17

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SQL4CDS UTC Mode: Converting Advanced Find Date Filters to UTC Boundaries– A Quick Reference (Dataverse / Dynamics 365)

While validating record counts for a Work Orders view in Dynamics 365 Field Service, we ran into the same underlying issue covered in an earli...

Nishant Rana's Weblog – Everything related to Microsoft .NET Technology 2 months ago 15