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Thoughts on Dynamics 365, the Power Platform and occasionally other stuff


Authenticating Custom Clients to Microsoft Dataverse
This article describes things I recently learned about how custom clients should authenticate to Dataverse. Introduction I was prompted to write this article when I tried to make sense of authentication options in one of my favourite integration tools, KingswaySoft . This article intentionally does not provide step by step instructions on how to configure anything. There are loads of blogs and articles that describe how to set things up; there is no point in me repeating them
Jul 11, 20217 min read
Portal records not showing in related items
In Unified Interface apps, I noticed that Forum Posts (and some other portal records) do not show in the related items of a parent entity. For example, open a contact, click Related and then Forum Posts. Nothing showed with no error message just white space. Having logged a support case, it seems that this is a known bug. The fix is to download a solution containing just the affected entity, not selecting entity metadata and just the associated view. Download and unzip the so
Dec 3, 20201 min read
View rights to record
Here is a feature that I and many others have been waiting for a long time; see the privileges a user has for a record and here is the best bit, how they obtained those privileges! But this is for Dynamics 365 online only. The feature called Check Access was added in one of the Nov 2020 updates and is described at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/powerapps/user/access-checker . What I especially like is that it shows if the user obtained privileges using any of the following:
Nov 26, 20201 min read
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