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Dynamics 365  Dataverse TDS endpoint Control Access and rights

Dynamics 365 / Dataverse TDS endpoint Control Access and rights

Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:29 By Lloyd Sebag

Dynamics 365  Dataverse TDS endpoint Control Access and rights

Following up on the previous two articles regarding subjects How to access the Dynamics 365 online SQL Server database and Dynamics 365 / Dataverse access SQL Server database from C#, here's a third one that will illustrate how to control access to this endpoint.

Enhancing Dynamics 365 Client API Interaction with Xrm-Ex

Enhancing Dynamics 365 Client API Interaction with Xrm-Ex

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 17:34 By Ahash

Enhancing Dynamics 365 Client API Interaction with Xrm-Ex

Stepping into software development for Dynamics 365, developers come across various tools and frameworks to make working with its Client API easier. Xrm-Ex stands out as a strong framework designed mainly for JavaScript, even though it has roots in TypeScript. The main goal of Xrm-Ex is to simplify how developers interact with the formContext and the Xrm Object. By doing this, it aims to reduce the amount of code developers have to write, making the codebase easier to manage and less likely to have errors.

Filtering Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Dataverse Virtual Entities in Customer Portal

Filtering Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Dataverse Virtual Entities in Customer Portal

Fri, 04/28/2023 - 11:35 By Fabien Leal
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Filtering Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Dataverse Virtual Entities in Customer Portal

PowerApps portal helps you exposing CRM data to your customer through a web application.  It works pretty well when the data are persisted in CRM, then we can use all the power of the dataverse platform to propose forms, views and processes to the end customer.

The CRM Portal Management application proposes a full set of tools to manage the customer access: Table permission, Web Roles, Content access level, Web Page Access etc... but there are some limitations to it.

Query D365/Dataverse Audit logs through API or Organization Service

Query D365/Dataverse Audit logs through API or Organization Service

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 04:42 By Guowei

Today, I'd like to show some manners about how to query D365/Dataverse Audit logs through API or Organization Service.

What's the Audit log?

The Auditing feature is designed to meet the external and internal auditing, compliance, security, and governance policies that are common to many enterprises. Dataverse auditing logs changes made to customer records in an environment with a Dataverse database. Dataverse auditing also logs user access through an app or the SDK in an environment.

Dynamics 365 Dataverse Change Tracking feature

Dynamics 365 Dataverse Change Tracking feature

Mon, 02/20/2023 - 10:11 By Guowei

Hi, Guys,

Today I would like to share the Change Tracking feature of Dynamics 365 CRM. 

Why enable Change Tracking?

Change Tracking enables incremental export, only records that have changed are exported.

In addition, you can export or retrieve a selected set of data, and then keep the external data warehouse in sync.

Use Visual Studio Code Map to visualize your Dataverse code

Use Visual Studio Code Map to visualize your Dataverse code

Mon, 01/02/2023 - 11:35 By Lloyd Sebag

Use Visual Studio Code Map to visualize your Dataverse code

What an incredible feature I just discovered in Microsoft Visual Studio! Code Map! It will allow you to view and navigate through your code graphically via a viewer, which will greatly simplify your understanding of your C# solutions.

This could be very useful in the following cases: