Previously we spoke about using the setNotification feature from the javascript SDK in this blog post but today we are going to talk about something similar but subtly different. Today’s topic of discussion is addNotification. formContext.getControl(arg).addNotification(notification); Add a notification to a control sample code The previous setNotification did one thing Read more…
There are some fantastic parts of the model driven app world that are underused and I’m not really sure why? Maybe the fact they require coders to write them but who really knows? Over the course of a few blog posts, I’m going to show you some of my favourite Read more…
I have a pretty good idea of what Project Oakdale is and how it’s a good stop gap between D365/CDS and SharePoint lists. I can see the benefit of it for smaller internal things between Teams too so I thought whilst it’s still very new and in preview that I Read more…
Sometimes I have a requirement for a custom connector and to be honest, sometimes I don’t but I like the API so I build one anyway as you never know when you’re going to need it! Back in 2019, I was fortunate enough to meet Ben Vollmer and we were Read more…
Having spent a long time specialising in the duplicates and merge area of model driven apps, this is probably one of the most asked questions I’m asked that most people respond with something like “I never knew that”, or “I didn’t see that anywhere in the docs” so I figured Read more…
During the wrapping up of my required fields series, I wrote a custom plugin to solve the problem that CDS simply doesn’t solve in a safe way – I’ve open sourced that code if you decide you would also like to use it. The raw code can be found on Read more…
4 parts! A 4 part blog post about required fields. Who knew that was possible?! In case you missed previous, here’s part 1, part 2 and part 3. For 3 posts, I’ve spoken about why required fields can be bad and why the phrase “System Required” can be misleading depending Read more…
I’ll be honest when I started writing about required fields, I didn’t expect to still be writing at part 3 but here we are – shows I have a lot of thoughts about them! Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. Previously we have spoken about using required Read more…
Part 2 of a discussion of required fields and where they often fall down in peoples systems.
Required fields will, at some point, detract from the quality of your data in pretty much any system. I will try and explain why!