Author: Olena Grischenko (she/her)

  • Diversity and Inclusion in the BizzApps community and community leadership

    It’s been bothering me for quite a long time now. So, I would like to start the discussion on this topic with the hope to find some sort of solution to the problem with the help of the collective. The simple binary model of the tech community contribution – labeling members as “active” or “passive”,…

  • In a Canvas app, if you pick up a CDS entity as a data source, in my case, a Contact entity, you can also pick up a view. If you pick up None as per screenshot below, it will retrieve you an unfiltered set of records. Here you can see all my CDS contacts in…

  • Don’t auto-convert. Think. Transform.

    Why am I not a fan of auto converters which allow you to magically turn something old into something new? In the context of Dynamics 365, old Java Script into a new format, SQL reports into FetchXML, workflows into Flows etc. It’s because I believe that “new” is not just about tools, it’s about the…

  • Keep all your Microsoft Teams together

    “Too many Teams”. Too many Teams, Yammers, logins, chats, communicators. Screens, profiles… Let’s break the spell today and fix something. Sometimes you need to break first then to fix. I haven’t said it loud enough yet, but I love Microsoft Teams. Now I did say it. I love Microsoft Teams! I love Microsoft Teams! I…

  • Fixing the ribbon button issue for a new Dynamics 365 UI

    The issue After changing to a new UI a custom web resource launched from a custom button of the ribbon bar stopped receiving parameters. This leads to the incorrect page layout generation and other issues which are based on the missing parameter. The diagnostics There are things to consider while performing re-work on the page:…