Seeding a Dynamics 365 Sales Instance with Realistic Dummy Data Using Python
Setting up a Dynamics 365 Sales instance for development, demos, or training is painful when it’s empty. You need accounts, contacts, opportunities, quotes, orders —…
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Building Custom Dynamics 365 Plugins with Claude Code: Email Anonymisation & Network Activities
One of the best ways to learn Dynamics 365 plugin development is to build something real. In this post, I’ll walk through two plugins I…
Pass Record ID to Custom Page from a Sub-Grid RWB Button
When you wish to pass the ID of a selected item from a sub-grid Ribbon Workbench (RWB) button, there are a few key differences from…
Checking a User’s New Email is Active
Often in an onboarding type app, an email will be sent to the new starter with Welcome type info. But this cannot be sent to…
PowerShell from Power Automate via Azure Automation
There are some things, particularly with Exchange, that can still only be done by PowerShell. Flow can call these PowerShell jobs via an Automation account.…
Dummy’s Guide to expand query in Flow
Expand query really simplifies one’s Flows, but the syntax is a killer. I forget this after 10 minutes so a super brief primer. Below, expanding…
DataVerse List Rows get Related Records
When you stick a subgrid of related records on a form (if a N:N relationship was created rather than an intermediary entity), how does one…
DataVerse Email Templates in Flows
Most apps need emails sent out, very likely from Power Automate. As a developer the thing I always hate is doing work. Well, boring work.…
Power Automate: Creating Teams, Tabs and Channels
There are various ways of creating Teams with Power Automate: The Create Team action in Flow. Currently, very limited options available. Create a Team from…
Using Visual Studio Code PAC to change Connection References in bulk
Those times you need to change connection references in 20 Flows and you go oh no! First in the solution in dev, create the new…