u/Brycare

Hi guys.

I have never used Power Apps before but will shortly need to write one that allows users to fill in person details & will end up writing those details as new Contact records in CRM.

There are several fields on the contact that are Business Required at the database level that will not be exposed in the Power App.

I have read somewhere that if you try and create a record from PowerApps - and do not provide a value for all Business Required fields - that it will throw an error.

Is this correct and if so - is there a way around this in the Power App?

For example, if I were to create a contact record in C# code using the SDK it will allow me to leave Business Required fields as null.

Is there any way to achieve this via Power Apps?

The requirement I have is to leave two required fields empty on submission - users are to be forced to update them within CRM later.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Hi.

Just wondering if anybody here has implemented a listener for outlook calendar event updates by setting up a subscription with a webhook.

I have tested one where the webhook points to a web service written in .Net 10.

Just wondering if anyone has used a Power Automate Flow instead of a custom web service. Trying to decide which is the best option to implement in production. Cheers

Hi guys,

I am new to Graph API and have a query for you guys.

I am just about to begin writing an integration between CRM and outlook.

Currently we have CRM server side sync enabled which syncs appointments to the users outlook calendar (this works fine).

We are having issues with sending meeting invites however, when additional attendees are added to the appointment post-creation.

In this scenario, only the attendees that were there when the appointment was created are getting email invites.

For this reason, we may to turn off the auto sync and manually create the outlook calendar events instead.

This way we will be able to control the sending of calendar invites and ensure that subsequent attendees get the invites.

Anyhow, as part of coding this, we would like to store down the ID of the CRM appointment record against the outlook calendar event when we are creating the event.

On researching this, I have seen both single value extended properties AND open extensions recommended as approaches to use for storing this id down against the calendar event.

Wondering if anyone here has an opinion on which way to go (or a better alternative approach even).

Appreciate any advice.

Thank you

Hi guys.

My organisation has server side sync switched on for appointments, so that any keyed in CRM appear in the user Outlook calendar.

There are never any required attendees right now and nor are there attachments associated with the appointments.

An upcoming requirement is going to change this, whereby we are looking for meeting invites to send and also attachments to be sent with those invites.

I have two things I'm struggling with & wondering if anybody can give any advice.

Firstly, I can't seem to turn on attachment syncing. Is this not possible? I have switched on the setting "Synchronize appointment attachments with Outlook or Exchange". But when I check the Synchronized Fields screen for the appointment entity, it has Attachments set to sync in neither direction and I have no option to turn it on.

Is there another setting that takes precedence or maybe this action requires higher priviliges in O365 other than just a CRM system administrator?

Secondly, if i add a Required Attendee as part of the initial save I see that an email invite will get sent. If I create the appointment without an attendee, but add one straight away afterwards in an update - no email invite sends.

Is there a way to force the invite for subsequently added attendeea?

In the scenario above where the initial attendee gets his invite, if i subsequently add a second attendee they do not get any invite.

Thanks very much for any assistance.

I've been trying to find info on these things but haven't been able to find any concrete info.