In this blog, we are going to see how we can do the implementation of form validation in Power Apps. Let get started, I have designed the Sign-Up page which has the following fields: Email Password and Confirm Password Phone Number Following is Screenshot of my Sign-Up Page build in PowerApps: Following is App Controls Structure which I have followed to Create Sign Up Form: I have used “ErrorText” which is HTML Label Control for Logging all the Validation Errors. Now, we will set the Properties on ErrorText control to display the error on the Form for Each Input Following is an explanation of each validation which I have used in this Power Apps: Email Validation Not(IsBlank(‘ControlName’)) — It will validate if Field is blank or not. IsMatch(‘ControlName’.Text , Match.Email) — It will validate the email format and return false if user enter invalid Email Address Code: Password and Confirm Password Validation Not(IsBlank(‘ControlName’)) — It will validate if Field is blank or not. ‘Confirm Password’.Text = Password.Text — It will validate if the password and confirm password are the same or not. It will return false if both password will not match. Code: Phone Number Validation Not(IsBlank(‘ControlName’)) — It will validate if Field is blank or not. IsMatch(‘Control’.Text, “Your country Phone Validation ReGex”) — It will validate if the entered phone number is valid or not using ReGex. I have used phone number validation ReGex for India — “^[6–9]\d{9}$” Following is an explanation of my ReGex: 5. Code: Following is full code for Validation you need to paste in Formula bar of HtmlText Property: Result: Blank Field Validation for each Fields — Email, Password, Confirm Password and Phone Number Email Format Validation Now, you can see after entering valid email error has gone Password and Confirm Password Match Validation Phone Number Format Validation Check After adding valid phone number error is gone Hope this helps, stay tuned for more blogs.

Introduction: In some scenarios, we might need that Full name of Contact Person should be Last Name and then First Name. In this blog we will see how to change the Format of Full Name for Contact Entity. Step 1: Go to Advanced settings -> Administration -> System settings Step 2: Open System settings -> you will see Option to select different Name format -> Select Format you want and click OK. Step 3: here is the short Demo:  I have created a Contact with First Name as Jon and last Name as Paul Below is the Output: Note : This can not be exported into Solution.  I hope this blog will help you to format Contact’s Name

In this blog, we are going to see how to create object detection model which can be used in PowerApps or MS Flow / PowerAutomate Step 1: Log in to portal.office.com. Select the PowerApps, If PowerApps is not visible then click on All Apps then you will able to see the PowerApps. Step 2: Expand the AI Builder Section and click on Build Section in PowerApps. Note: Please ensure that you are select the correct instance. Step 3: Click on the Object Detection Model We are going to create the Object Detection Model which can be used to created PowerApps or In MS Flow / Automate. Step 4: Name the AI Model and click on Create. Step 5: We will select the Domain of Model so we will go with Common Object. And click on Next. Step 6: Before moving forward, we will download the data which will be used to train and test the Model. Kaggle is the best source for the data to train the machine learning model. We will require the fruit images as we are designing the Fruit Detection Model, search fruit images and download the Dataset given in the screenshot. Select the Fruit Image for Object Detection Click on the Download Step 7: After downloading the Zip file extract it. You will see the following two folders — train_zip and test_zip respectively. Now, we will open the train_zip folder and you can see that there will be four categories of images Apple Banana Orange Mixed [Apple, Banana, Orange] Step 8: Let move back to the PowerApps Platform, 2nd step in the creation of Object Model is to define the object that we are going to detect. Here, we have three objects — Apple, Banana & Orange and click on next to move further steps. Step 9: We will require a minimum 15 images of each category to train our Object Detection Model. Now, we will click on Add Images and select Upload from local storage. Step 10: Select the images. Once all images are upload click on Close. Click on Next Step 11: Now, we are in the most important phase of the training where we provide the Tag or Label to the Images which we have uploaded. Click on the uploaded image and select the area where the object is present. Once you will select the area you will get the option to select the object is that present in the selection area. If an image is not suitable for the model to remove that particular image click on the “Don’t use Image ”. Click on remove to remove the image from the model data set. Step 12: Once you are done will the tagging or labeling the image click on the Done tagging. Note: Please ensure that you have a more tagged image for each model so that your model will work accurately. The more the label data more the accurate your machine learning model. Step 13: Click on the Train to start the training your model based on tagged images. Click on Go to Model It will take around 5–10 min to train based on your complexity of images, model and objects. Step 14: Publish the model. Once you model finished with done and you have published the Model. You can use that model to in Power App or MS Flow. We are going to see that in the next part of this blog.

Item Master Data Mass uploading via Data Management In the world of data management, it has become essential that the business users are provided solution for mass data uploading. Where the data is managed by very less expert users who’re required to upload and download data in bulk at very less given time. Today I am going to show you the way to upload Item Master Data quickly and with no errors via Data Management in MS Dynamics Commerce and Retail. Note: Masters as Item group, tax codes, units, category, item model group etc should be pre-configured or created for this to work accurately otherwise this operation will fail with errors as the masters are not created/configured. For this operation to work first we need to identify the fields that are required to do two steps. First, Item Master Creation Secondly, Item Master release in released products. So now to identify the necessary “importable” fields first we will export the required fields in excel as below. Goto Workspaces> Data Management and in Data Management click Export Button. Upon Clicking “export” create project as data filled in below. Desired Project name in my case I have named it “product master fields” Generate Data package to be set as No. Now when project is created click on “add entity” Select entity as “Released product creation V2” or anything as “Released product creation” whichever is latest according to your version of D365. Select output as “EXCEL”. Use sample file and skip staging to be set as NO. Very important step to select fields to be set as “Importable Fields” And “add” the entity to the project. Now again click on “add Entity”, select the rest of the fields as mentioned in pt. II., and select “released products V2) in entity name and click on add. Now click on export button as below Now on export screen Click on “refresh” button until you see  mark on thee screen, and then “download File” to obtain excel file. Note: click each project one by one to download table fields. After downloading file replace the data with required information that you want in your product master so that we can Import the Master data. (Note: You can hide fields that doesn’t require user to input any data but are required by AX this you will identify in released products format). Assuming that you have created your files for upload we will now continue with “Import” data, Goto Workspaces > Data Management and in Data Management click “Import” Button. Upon clicking “Import” create a project and add entity as below. Add group name, in my case added as “import Master Data” Now when project is created click on “add File” Select entity as “Released product creation V2” or anything as “Released product creation” whichever is latest according to your version of D365. Click the upload data file and select the appropriate file, in my case it is “Released product creation V2 – Format.xlsx” Select “Source data format” Click close. Now again click on “add File”, select the rest of the fields as mentioned in pt. VIII., and select “released products V2) in entity name and click on Close. After adding both the files, now its time to click on “import”, but first ensure that the sequence of the below files are as such 1st for Released Product Creation and 2nd for Released products. If this is not in sequence the above operation will fail. After Clicking on Import, you will have to click on refresh button until the  come. Upon success you can see the validation message that the master data has been uploaded successfully and released the product for use. In my case I had uploaded a test product which got successfully uploaded to the system. Hope this helps!

As seen in title when error “Your connection is not private | NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID” occured which seems as follows in screenshot when you try to open environment link in browser. The reason for above error in my case was that SSL certificate was expired as you can see in following screenshot To solve this issue go to your lcs.dynamics.com with your credentials and open your project now select which ever environment and visit see details/Full details page and click on maintain button and select  Rotate secrets button  Now click on Rotate SSL certificates after which dialogue box will appear click on yes  Now wait till rotating secret symbol is loading as following screenshot after which you will be able to access your D365 Finance and operation link easily. Hope this blog will help you.Thank you

Dynamics 365 portal helps you to provide additional support to your customers, partners, employees, and others. It helps you to stay connected and provide the necessary assistance. The best part about the whole thing is that you can get the portal if you have an active Dynamics 365  subscription. You need to follow simple steps to active the demo portal. Here are the steps that you need to follow if you want to activate the demo version.  Step # 1: Navigate and find the Dynamics 365 Administration Center. From the Office 365 home (open link: https://portal.office.com/), you need to open admin centre. Step # 2: After opening it, you need to click the applications, and then look out for Portal Add-On. Step # 3: Here you need to click ‘Manage’ and then input the following parameters Name — This names should help you to identify the portal. No need not worry much as you can change the information as and when required.  Url for the Portal (You can change this information as well later.) Select or choose the CRM instance Pick a Language Select the Administrator Pick the Audience Partners — Though they are not your employees, they will need some sort of interaction with the CRM to close deals or in delivering the services 2. Employees — You can provide the necessary support to your employees by tailoring the portal by using features such as Employee Self-Service 3. Customers —  Since they are external parties, they can benefit through your portals such as community building or customer service Pick the Portal Template  Community Partner Employee Self-Help Customer Self-Service Custom Portal Step # 4: Wait for some time – now this takes at least 20 minutes to a few hours to work. Click on Solutions Link under Instance in Admin Center under Dynamics 365 to check the status. It may show the status as ‘installing,’ if the download did not complete. In a few minutes, you will have the demo Dynamic 365 Portal working. In Conclusion Always think from the angle of your customers, partners, and employees when creating the portal. It should make their life easy. What kind of support can you provide them? This question should haunt you when creating the portal.

One of the most common errors we come across while calling API to create records in Dynamics but isn’t clear what it means? One such issue is – “An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: Does not support untyped value in non-open type.” On the console of the browser, you’ll see this – But, if you open the <objectName>.responseText of the Failure message of the call, you’ll see the below – A more zoomed view of the error would be below – This is because of my typo in the code [Which is the case for most scenarios] where you mistype a name of the field and neither does the error itself doesn’t specify which field you’re missing out on nor what it means! Reason This is because of a simple typo  in one of the fields in the object I was creating using AJAX In my case, this should have been “entity.duration” and not “entity.durationn“. It was a simple issue which led me wander troubleshooting in areas which I shouldn’t look into. Hope this saves you some valuable time! Happy 365ing!

“Run Jobs” – as the name suggests is a process between Retail Channels and Retail essentials through which we transfer data between channels and database. Please Note: Jobs Run at a specified time which may be different for every Retail Scheduler. Be aware of what the time is set for jobs to run automatically.  Running jobs at a specific time requires setting to be done so that we can schedule a specific job to run at specific time. It can be easily done manually. You’ll have to follow the below steps: Step 1: Go to distribution schedule or Channel database in Retail Dynamics 365. If the job doesn’t run from distribution schedule run it through channel database. Step 2: Go to download sessions and make sure your Job is available or in applied state. If it is in available state, go to “Batch Jobs“. Step 3: Now you will have to find the same batch job that you were searching and need to run it at a specified time. Step 4: Here, since the Job is in waiting state, you need to change it’s scheduled date and time to current time. This change must be according to the time at which you want your job needs to be run. The specified time will make your job run immediately.   Step 5: You can check if Job is being applied in “Download sessions” whenever required. Step 6: You can also change how often the job should run from going to Recurrence. Step 7: Only things highlighted in Red boxes should be checked. Hope this helps!!! Thank you! Please feel free to post any doubts you have.

So, I struggled some time in trying to make something just work as it was supposed to work. And for no conscious reason, I was able to figure out why. As to why my Quote wouldn’t save and auto generate the usual Quote ID? It kept asking me to enter it! Problem OOB, Quote ID is locked and is auto-generated when you save the record. Instead, I got this And asks me to enter Quote in the field again. Ideally, if you have a required field locked, you can save it and the form won’t force you. But, nothing would work. After much hassle, I finally noticed the culprit lying in plain sight. Let’s look at why this was happening. Culprit This happened because the same field was on the Business Process Flow and was unlocked That was the issue. As a part of the requirement, I had put it there, but either didn’t lock it or shouldn’t be there. I just removed it since it wasn’t a big deal and things were fine now. Hope this helps you! 🙂

Out-of-the-box, D365 Activity Party List field, say, Appointment’s Required/Optional Attendees fields lets you choose among multiple Activity Party enabled entities when you want to select records. And perhaps you don’t even want users to select what’s not relevant. Let’s look at how we can show only the required entities in the selection list. Before that, if you want to check how you can enable custom entities for the Activity Party, you can refer this post of mine – Enable entity for Party List selection in Appointment Hide entities from the Activity Party List field This can be achieved by writing a simple JS code and calling it onLoad of the Appointment form where the Party List field exists. Let’s say you only want to show the entities Lead and Contact in the Required Attendees Party List field Here’s the JS code that goes on the onLoad function of the Appointment form // JavaScript source code oAppointmentFormCustomization = { filterRequiredAttendees: function () { Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“requiredattendees”).setLookupTypes([“lead”,”contact”]); } };   And call the method filterRequiredAttendees onLoad as below The Appointment’s Required Attendees field will show only the entities you provided in the setLookupTypes([“lead”,”contact”]); Hope this helps!