Refresh Parent form if a record is added or deleted from the subgrid

Hello Eveyone,

We had a requirement to refresh the main form if a record is added or removed from the subgrid. To achieve this we have written following javascript on load of the main form.
Declared global variable _rowcount to capture grid row count on form load and then comparing the count on load of the grid.

var _rowcount = 0;
function onLoad(executionContext) {
    var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext(); // get the form context
    var gridContext = formContext.getControl("Contacts_grid");// get the grid context
    //stores the row count of subgrid on load event of CRM Form
    _rowcount = gridContext.getGrid().getTotalRecordCount();
    gridContext.addOnLoad(myContactsGridOnloadFunction);

}
function myContactsGridOnloadFunction(executionContext) {
    var currentRowCount = null;
    var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
    currentRowCount = formContext.formContext.getControl("Contacts_grid").getGrid().getTotalRecordCount();
    if (currentRowCount != _rowcount) {
        _rowcount = currentRowCount;
        formContext.formContext.data.refresh();
    }
};      
 

Unit test cases for HTTP Requests

Hi Everone,

In recent past times observed external real-time integration unit tests were failing due to some reasons. Like client secret was changed for the token service, external server was down etc., Due to these issues our DevOps build pipeline got effected and VS test task was failing. To overcome these issues we need to fake our HTTP web requests also in unit test code. 

We followed below steps to fake HTTP Requests 

1. Install HttpWebRequestWrapper from NuGet Packages
2. Implement below code in your unit test file

var fakeResponseBody = Helper.SampleTokenResponse;

var fakeAzureKeyVaultResponse = "{\"value\":\"secretkey\",\"id\":\"https://azure.vault.azure.net/secrets/"}";

var fakeECSResponse = Helper.SoapSampleResponse;
using (new HttpWebRequestWrapperSession(

                new HttpWebRequestWrapperInterceptorCreator(req =>

               {

                   switch (req.HttpWebRequest.Host)

            {

                       case "login.microsoftonline.com":

                       case "login.windows.net":

                           return req.HttpWebResponseCreator.Create(fakeResponseBody);

                       case "azure.vault.azure.net":

                           return req.HttpWebResponseCreator.Create(fakeAzureKeyVaultResponse);

                       case "devapi.testserver.com":

                           return req.HttpWebResponseCreator.Create(fakeECSResponse);

                       default:

                           return req.HttpWebResponseCreator.Create(fakeECSResponse);

                   }

               })))

            {

                var result = context.ExecuteCodeActivity<GetSMARTActivities>(inputs, null);

                Assert.IsNotNull(result["SMARTActivities"]);

       }

That’s it. Note the above code is written using FakeXrm Easy library for Dynamics CRM custom workflow activity, you need to change it as per your requirements.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Calculate Age using Microsoft Flow (Power Automate)

Hi Everyone,

We had a requirement to calculate age of the user every day and send birthday wishes to the user.
We achieved this using Microsoft flows with expression formulas.

1. Created two custom fields named as "Age" as whole number and "Upcoming birthday" as date time.

2. Created a flow in https://make.powerapps.com/ scheduled it for every day.
3. Initialize a variable to hold the Age of the current contact, named it as "Diff Years"
4. Initialize variable to hold upcomingbirth day in this year
5. Initialize another variable to hold upcoming birthday in next year.

6. Next connect to CDS and list the contact records. Provide the odata filter to query the contacts where upcoming birthday is less than or equals to today's date.

dk_upcomingbirthdate le @{utcNow('yyyy-MM-dd')}

7. Next click on Plus symbol to add action. Add Apply each action to process each contact record.

8. Set Age and upcoming birthday variables with below expressions.

Difference Years

 sub(int(utcNow('yyyy')),int(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'yyyy')))

       
 

Set current year birthday

       
concat(utcNow('yyyy'),'-',formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'MM'),'-',formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'dd'))
       
 

Set future year birthday

       
concat(add(int(utcNow('yyyy')), 1),'-',formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'MM'),'-',formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'dd'))
       
 

9. Next update the contact record. Set the Age and Upcoming birthday fields with below expressions

Age expression

if(or(less(int(utcNow('MM')), int(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'MM'))), 

and(equals(int(utcNow('MM')), int(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'MM'))),

less(int(utcNow('dd')), int(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'dd'))))),sub(variables('Years'),1),variables('Years'))
 

Upcoming birthday expression

       
if(less(int(utcNow('MM')),int(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['birthdate'],'MM'))),
formatDateTime(variables('setDate'),'yyyy-MM-dd'),formatDateTime(variables('futurebirthday'),'yyyy-MM-dd'))

      

Suppress Duplicate detection through Plugin code

Hi All,

We have a requirement to suppress out of the box duplicate detection rule for some specific contact types using plugin. To achieve this we have written following plugin and registered on create of "PreValidation" stage.

This is code snippet of the plugin.

Show or Hide Optionset values based on the description in Dynamics 365 CE

If we want to show or hide the optionset values based on the customer lookup. For example if the contact is selected from the customer then show few options, else if account is selected show some other options.
Below are steps to follow.
1) Add the description to the optionset values in Dynamics CRM as shown in the below image. If you want to show the particular option for both contact and account entity type then add description as "account;contact;"

2) Write the following javascript code on change of the customer lookup field on the form properties.