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How to Display Two Option Set Fields as Checkboxes in Dynamics 365: A Quick Tip

The Two Option Set field in Dynamics 365 is a common way for users to represent boolean values like Yes/No or True/False. By default, the field appears as a drop-down list with two options or a toggle button. However, to improve user experience, it is possible to customize the field to display as checkboxes instead. This option can be especially helpful in certain scenarios, allowing for more streamlined data entry and a more user-friendly interface.

12 Advantages of Using a Virtual Private Network

A virtual private network (VPN) is a secure tunnel that encrypts and transmits data to and from a remote or local network, protecting users from unauthorized access.  It’s an incredibly powerful tool that offers numerous advantages for businesses, organizations, and individuals alike — including improved security, privacy, and convenience.  Here are twelve of the essential …

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Step by Step: How to Set Up a Free Power Apps Development Environment

In this blog, we will show how to set up a free power apps development environment step by step. Power Apps is a platform that allows you to build custom business applications, and having your own environment can be extremely beneficial when it comes to testing and experimenting with your designs. Whether you are a …

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Limit rows listed from related tables in Power Automate

Introduction Have you tried to limit the number of rows you want to return from related tables in Dataverse using Power Automate? Like using the top parameter to get the number of rows you want in FetchXML or directly in the Dataverse action, this works fine. Let’s say, you want to get the three latest …

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How to cancel running Power Automate flows with JavaScript

Have you ever accidentally triggered many Power Automate flows or have many flows running at the same time that don’t complete since it’s waiting for another flow to finish? In this post, we take a look at how you can cancel running Power Automate flows with JavaScript. Instead of manually canceling one flow at a time, the JavaScript code performs these steps for you.

Using Power Automate to Automatically Move Note Attachment in Dynamics 365 to SharePoint

This post show how you can extract documents from Dynamics 365 to SharePoint. Reasons behind the flow: Issue with storage space in Dataverse. Storage in Dataverse costs money Remove third party applications like Attachment Extractor from MSCRM.ADDONS Prerequisites A SharePoint site is created and accessible to the organization is required If you use standard SharePoint …

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Study preparations for Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)

Took the Microsoft PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals exam some time ago and took some notes during the study and thought I share how I studied for the exam. The way I like to learn is to see video lections, examples and hands on practice. So what I did first was to read through the Microsoft …

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Replace special characters in a string with Power Automate

Faced an error regarding special characters while creating a new document location in Dynamics 365 CE with Power Automate Flow. To get some context; the reason behind the flow is to extract attachments related to notes and email from Dataverse and store them in SharePoint to save space in Dataverse. The error occurred when I …

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How to display total count of related entities in Dynamics without Calculated Fields

Have you used calculated fields to show how many open opportunities that are related to an account or related closed quotes? Perhaps experienced the field is not up to date with current related entities? Or maybe just find the calculated field does not look satisfying? Counting related entities can easily be solved by using Javascript …

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Working with bindings on Windows Web Server IIS with PowerShell

Short post today about how you can get, add and remove bindings with PowerShell on Windows Server running IIS (Internet Information Server). I find it more effective to add bindings through PowerShell rather than clicking through the user interface, especially if a website contains a lot of bindings and you have to scroll and look through the list manually to find the binding you want to delete.