How to make Read Only, show and hide and other conditions to fields in Project Operations?

Go to solutions and open the entity that contains the field you want to make read only and click on Business Rules and Click New.

The Business Rule designer window opens with a single condition already created for you. Every rule starts with a condition. The business rule takes one or more actions based on that condition

Add a description, if you want, in the description box in the upper-left corner of the window.

Add conditions. To add more conditions to your business rule:

a. Drag the Condition component from the Components tab to a plus sign in the designer.

b. To set properties for the condition, click the Condition component in the designer window, and then set the properties in the Properties tab on the right side of the screen. As you set properties, an expression is created at the bottom of the Properties tab.

c. To add an additional clause (an AND or OR) to the condition, click New in the Properties tab to create a new rule, and then set the properties for that rule. In the Rule Logic field, you can specify whether to add the new rule as an AND or an OR.

d. When you’re done setting properties for the condition, click Apply.

Add actions. To add an action:

a. Drag one of the action components from the Components tab to a plus sign next to Condition component. Drag the action to a plus sign next to a check mark if you want the business rule to take that action when the condition is met, or to a plus sign next to an x if you want the business rule to take that action if the condition is not met.

b. To set properties for the action, click the Action component in the designer window, and then set the properties in the Properties tab.

c. When you’re done setting properties, click Apply.

To save the business rule, click Save on the action bar.

To activate the business rule, select Activate on top of the screen.

How to replace HTML tags when within automated email and display content properly ? – Power Automate)

When you create a work flow and face a problem with the output is displaying HTML code like the image below:

there are multiple ways you can use to fix this issue. One of the solutions is using the expression Replace in your flow to replace the HTML code seek the example below:

the expression used in this example is: replace(replace(replace(body(‘Create_HTML_table_for_related_Items’), ‘&lt;’ , ‘<‘ ), ‘&gt;’, ‘>’), ‘&quot;’, ‘ ” ‘)

after that add the output of your expression inside the CSS compose

How to move MS Project template to D365 Project Operations?

To Integrate your created tasks in Ms Project inside the tasks tab in Power Automate you have to clone your Ms Project template.

  • Open the template you want to Integrate into your project in Project Operations
  • Go to your project in Project Operations and in the tasks tab recreate your tasks from Ms Project and create the same Ms Project template in Dynamics 365 (Project Operations)
  • After you finish cloning your data click on the copy project feature on the top of the screen and your data will be integrated into another project

How to add styling to a created HTML table for an automated Email notification (Power Automates)?

To add styling to your email notification you have to create a compose action in your flow

and then place your CSS inside the action

Finally place output of compose CSS and output of the created HTML table

In case you faced a problem with HTML tags appearing in you outputs you can solve that problem by creating a replace expression to replace the HTML tags and stop them from showing up in the output:

the function used in this example is: replace(replace(replace(body(‘Create_HTML_table_for_related_Items’), ‘&lt;’ , ‘<‘ ), ‘&gt;’, ‘>’), ‘&quot;’, ‘ ” ‘)

Unified Interface in Dynamics 365 – great job

Unified Interface in Dynamics 365 looks great, not so much white space like in current UI. The thing is, I just hope it won’t break anything in existing UI.

The challenging plan behind Unified Client Interface/Infrastructure “UCI” is to bring a single client technology to cover all the different UI’ s across many devices, Outlook, Web Mobile, …. – fingers crossed!

  1. Post about it on Linkedin with interesting opinions from CRM community:  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:629750374259389235
  2. Brilliant Brian’ article describes all features:  https://community.dynamics.com/enterprise/b/dynamics365fordevelopers/archive/2017/06/20/dynamics-365-v9-0-summary-july-2017-update
  3. Great article posted byJukka: https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/survivingcrm/archive/2017/07/03/the-long-road-to-unified-interface-in-dynamics-365

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Comprehensive online guide for Dynamics 365

CRMBOOK published by PowerObjects can be useful for CRM users on different level of experience with this product. It also covers many topics from previous versions of Dynamics CRM e.g. 2011, 2013 to show for example how a navigation was changing to improve user experience.

The content of this book covers topics ranging from the basics to the more advanced questions about CRM administration and extending as well.

The idea with online book is really great,  especially when Dynamics CRM is chaining so often and we experience so many releases, updates,…

PowerObjects decided that they would not bother with print and publish an online book that could be easily maintained – reallygood point.