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D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

When will the Developer Toolkit be available for CRM 2015/Visual Studio 2013?

MichaelHolmesWP · ‎09-16-2020

Given the increasing number of integrations that Power Platform / D365 have with external services that have the capacity to write structured JSON back to CommonDataService record fields, it would be greatly beneficial to be able to replace the System.Runtime.Serialization.Json WCF APIs in plugins with the new System.Text.Json API which is v4.6.2 compatible. Whilst where possible we endeavour to use Azure Functions or logic apps, this is not possible for existing synchronous plugins. This could be achieved by adding the System.Text.Json DLL to the cloud implementation GAC.

santoshrnath · ‎01-30-2020

I think Microsoft is not doing a fair thing here. I am a big fan of PowerApps. We have expanded our Applications to a very great extent in our Firm. We used SQL SERVER Connector and loved it. Microsoft should have given a hint that it would make it premium. We have E3 licence and still cannot use SQL CONNECTOR. Now we need to separately invest for powerApp Plan which is unfair. We have decided to move away from PowerApps only because of this issue. Can Microsoft allow SQL Connectors for E3 Licence?

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Workflows are triggered by events (create, update, assign etc), however in many cases the ability to schedule workflows on a periodic basis is also required. CRM already has a scheduling engine, used for many system processes, as well as some user-defined processes such as Bulk Record Deletion. Why can't we open this up for schduling workflow? In addition, we could make this available to schedule plug-ins as well, providing total flexibility for developers.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

I have several times needed to set few values at run-time (like I can with a dialog process) - and then execute that against multiple 'targets' (like I can with a workflow.) The current limitation of a Dialog Process means that I can only run it against a single record - if I need to run against multiple records, I need to create a workflow and then it isn't flexible.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

It is not currently possible to move a stage or a step in the workflow designer. It would be useful to be able to move a stage or a step in your Workflow. For example, your business logic has changed or you might just want to update the order of the execution steps/stages. I would like to click on a step, drag it and drop it elsewhere in my Workflow and click save instead of recreating that step and deleting the older one. I guess one of the workaround (never tried it before) would be to manually change the XML of that Worfklow, but it would then require a "skilled" developer. This is not necessary something that your customer can easily do.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Workflow cannot currently update fields that are set to disabled on a form. The workaround is to add script to set the field to be disabled so workflow may update it. As a customiser, I'm tired of having to do this and it also increases the performance overhead when loading a form. I don't see the point of restricting workflow update steps from updating read only fields. Pretty please, enable this and save all the customisers out there some precious time.

dpardpar · ‎02-04-2019

It'd be great to be able to use Business Rules and Workflows with Multi-select Option Sets. The ability with Business Rules to show/hide, make required field or not, etc. would be great. As well, with Workflows being able to set a value with a Multi-select Option Set would be great.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

CRM 2013 has a new process type called Action, that is meant to encapsulate complex business logic into a process that is triggered on non-CRUD mechanisms. Actions can be associated to a specific entity, but can also be defined as global. Actions can be triggered through the web service SDK and client SDK, but they cannot be triggered by other workflows or actions. This limits the value of actions because they cannot be implemented in the middle of other business processes defined in workflows. Workflows and Actions should be able to call other actions, in the same way that workflows can call other workflows. With this new capability, Actions would become incredibly useful.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

The Plug-in Trace Log stores timestamps such as PerformanceExecutionStartTime as datetime fields, but milliseconds is always 0. To be able to make correct analysis of execution sequences, these fields need to include milliseconds, as it is now impossible to know in which order plugins were actually executed.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Using the ITracingService only works for plug-ins registered in SandBox. Since this service is so much better/easier to use than e.g. logging to file on the server, this should be enabled also when using plug-ins not registered in isolation.

DavidYack · ‎02-04-2019

Visual Studio has now been released please update the Dynamics 365 Developer Tools to work with the current version

Keith-Whatling · ‎05-01-2020

The current Business Central connector is just painful to use, only a handful of standard fields come through on each entity and there are no custom fields or entities at all. I take a recent quote from a community lead and pro dev " The BC integration is poor, the BC connector is poor. Nothing is exposed and you can't change it at all. All we needed was if am invoice had been paid. Cost us 25k to build a custom integration just for this one thing. The whole thing is poor." Which I think sums up the current state of affairs. Business Central on the Power Platform would just be amazing, but if the connector only allows for the most basic of apps to be built then those possibilities are closed to almost all. We really need all the fields returned by the connector, including custom fields and images! Otherwise, the statement that "Power Platform is the first place you go to extend Microsoft products" will need to be suffixed with "Apart from Business Central"

Mshunn · ‎05-13-2020

Incorporate a feature that would allow an app to utilize connected Bluetooth devices as controllers or an asset to collect data from. For instance having an app for checking out equipment that utilizes a Bluetooth rf code reader to scan an rf chip on the Piece of equipment, the app could then log the user and the piece of equipment. It could be used to access a Bluetooth camera, microphone, or any other bluetooth peripheral device for that matter.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

The CRM 2011 Developer toolkit should allow a user to right click and deploy a single project or file instead of the whole solution. This affects multiple developers working on the same solution.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

I would like to see an option where individual views can have a colour coding option associated with them (say in properties) based on the status reason code. The option should allow each status reason code to have a colur associated with it. When the view is displayed the background colour of each row would be based on the status reason code. Another way of doing this could be to add a colour option to the attribute and have an option in the view to turn colour control on or off. This will allow for a simple visual way of identifying sets of data which need dealing with in a prioritised way. ie you can have a single view with all outstanding actions say red at the top followed by amber etc...

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Rescheduling the common asynchronous service (scalegroup) maintenance jobs is imperative to maintaining a high-performing environment. These jobs include: DeletionService(14), IndexingManagement(15), ReindexAll(30), CleanupInactiveWorkflowAssemblies(31), AuditPartitionCreation(41), CheckForLanguagePackUpdates(42), RefreshRowCountSnapshots(46), RefreshReadSharingSnapshots(47). Currently, these jobs are rescheduled via a community tool provided by Premier Field Engineering that uses an internal/unsupported approach. This tool was originally provided for CRM 4.0 and was updated for CRM 2011. http://crmjobeditor.codeplex.com/ The DeploymentService and associated SDK should be extended to provide API's for scheduling or disabling the common maintenance jobs. PowerShell cmdlets for invoking these API's should also be provided.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Allow us to run a workflow with a run option of "Run on all records in all pages" (i.e. allow workflow to run on more than 250 results at a time in an Advanced Find). Otherwise it takes a long time to go through 10,000 records. We could do an export to Excel and update that way, but sometimes running a Workflow is the best way to do it.

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

Thank you for your feedback. This is a great suggestion! We are considering this in our roadmap. Sincerely, Srikumar Nair PM, Microsoft

D365Ideas_Admin · ‎02-04-2019

The REST service currently only supports access to data using the schema names of entities/fields. It would be great if logical mapping support was added to the service so that the logical names of entities and fields could be used instead. This is much simpler to deal with when working with the REST service from JScript and would make it easier to transition back and forth between the REST and SOAP endpoints if needed.

Share your ideas and vote for future features

Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit for CRM 2015/Visual Studio 2013

System.Text.Json API support for Plugins

Premium Connector - Unfair

Schedulable Workflows & Plug-Ins

"Diaflows" Allow a Dialog Process to target multiple records in a view. (Like a workflow process)

Modify the Workflow Designer to move steps and stages

Enhance Workflow so it may update disabled fields

Multi-select Option Sets Availability with Business Rules and Workflows

Allow workflows and actions to call actions

Store milliseconds in Plug-in Trace Log

Write to the Plug-in Trace Log from assemblies outside SandBox

Dev Toolkit support for Visual Studio 2017

Custom and All fields from Dynamics Business Central Connector

Bluetooth device data collection

CRM 2011 Developer toolkit single project or file deploy

Colour code views based on status reason (conditional formatting)

Extend Deployment Service/SDK to Provide API's for Managing Common Async Maintenance Jobs

Ability to run Workflows based on Advanced Find

Copy & Paste in WF Designer

Add option for logical mapping to REST service

Helpful resources

Delete Saved Versions - Revert to Live

Embed Stream videos in PowerApps

New Connector: SMS Notifications

more screen sizes

Make launching PowerApp faster for end users