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Faker.js is a very useful tool to generate random names, addresses, company names, and so much more:

Marak/faker.js: generate massive amounts of realistic fake data in Node.js and the browser (github.com)

It is a simple Javascript that can be used with nodejs or in the browser.

Comes in very handy when trying to generate large amounts of test data.

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Here are the steps needed in order to have cascading dropdowns in a Model driven app. Example: User selects a country and then selects state inside that country.

Example DataVerse structure:

• A Country Table: holds names of countries
• A State Table: hold names of State with a lookup to the country where the state belong
• A Location Table: a custom table that has 2 lookups: one lookup for Country and another lookup for State

We can then create a model driven app with these 3 tables

We then need to go to the Location table Main form (or whatever form that is being used in the model driven app) and we need to add a JavaScript Web Resource

You can then simply click the Text Editor to paste the JavaScript code

The Code is

var Sdk = window.Sdk || {};
(function () {
    // Define some global variables
    var myUniqueId = "_myUniqueId"; // Define an ID for the notification
    var currentUserName = Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().userSettings.userName; // get current user name
    var message = currentUserName + ": Your JavaScript code in action!";

    // Code to run in the form OnLoad event
    this.formOnLoad = function (executionContext) {

    }

    // Code to run in the attribute OnChange event 
    this.attributeOnChange = function (executionContext) {
        
        var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();

        var country = formContext.getAttribute("cr82b_country").getValue();
        if (country != null && country[0] != null) {
            formContext.ui.setFormNotification("Country=" + country[0].name, "INFO", myUniqueId);
            window.setTimeout(function () { formContext.ui.clearFormNotification(myUniqueId); }, 5000);
        }

        var stateControl = formContext.getControl("cr82b_state");
        stateControl.addPreSearch(Sdk.filterStates);
    }


    Sdk.filterStates = function () {

        var formContext = Xrm.Page.getControl("cr82b_country").formContext;
        var country = formContext.getAttribute("cr82b_country").getValue();
        if (country != null && country[0] != null) {
            var stateFilter = "<filter type='and'><condition attribute='cr82b_country' operator='eq' value='" + country[0].id + "'/></filter>";
            formContext.getControl("cr82b_state").addCustomFilter(stateFilter);
        }
    }

    // Code to run in the form OnSave event 
    this.formOnSave = function () {

    }
}).call(Sdk);

The main idea is to inject an OnChange Event to the Country Field and based on it, create a filter for States lookup

After publishing the script, refresh the Model driven app and you will see the filtering working (clicking “All records” after selecting a country, will only show states inside that country)

References:

addCustomFilter (Client API reference) in model-driven apps – Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

Filtering Lookups in Dynamics 365 with addCustomFilter and addPreSearch – Carl de Souza

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In Microsoft flow there is no built in action to add a user to a SharePoint group. One way to achieve this is to use the “Send HTTP request to SharePoint”

in this action you need to

1. Set the URL of the Site
2. Set method to “POST”
3. URI set to “_api/web/sitegroups({GROUPID})/users”, example: _api/web/sitegroups(10)/users
4. Add header with key=”accept” and value = “application/json;odata.metadata=none”
5. Add header with key =”content-type” and value = “application/json”
6. Set the Body to be {‘LoginName’:’i:0#.f|membership|[EMAIL ADDRESS]’}, example: {‘LoginName’:’i:0#.f|membership|john.doe@domain.onmicrosoft.com’}

It would look like this

This is tested with a SharePoint online connection but assume might work with on premise SharePoint as well.

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Newly released from Microsoft AI Lab, a tool to convert handwritten mockups into valid html code. Simply upload an image and  get HTML markup.

GitHub link: https://github.com/Microsoft/ailab/tree/master/Sketch2Code

a short YouTube video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6pqqPPHyYM

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A new tool by google to test how mobile friendly is a web site: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com

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Just came up across this very useful post : http://sadomovalex.blogspot.ca/2015/08/fix-problem-with-returned-xml-instead.html

It shows how to use JSON light with SP2013 SP1+.

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