Olena's Dynamics Blog (post-AI)
Writing as a human
Author: Olena Grischenko (she/her)
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The Issue: Unable to load data to the existing custom entity on CDS from CSV or Excel via Dataflow. We renamed the primary Name field for our custom entity and this is how it’s all started. Error: Load to Common Data Service failed. Details: Bad Request {“error”:{“code”:”0x0″,”message”:”An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: Does…
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This article is applicable to any PowerApps Portal Action. Recently we set up a PowerApps portal in addition to the existing Dynamics 365 portals.It happened to be a DEV one. What could possibly go wrong? I was debugging an issue and quickly discovered that custom messages don’t give me any idea of what’s really going…
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Since Microsoft first introduced the concept of a solution we all live in fear of creating an entity with the prefix “new_”. If you do things properly you create a solution first, define a publisher with the unique prefix then all new entities and custom fields will be created with that prefix. For example, for…
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With the classic UI to lookup all the components for the environment you had to go via Settings -> Customizations-> Customize the System. You could see all the components under the Default solution. In a new designer: Navigate to https://web.powerapps.com, login using you Dynamics 365 credentials (you will need appropriate security access) Locate the Solution…
