Blog

This is part 2 of the Blog series ‘How Solution Architects Drive Innovation and Transformation.’

In the ever-evolving world of technology, Solution Architects play a pivotal role in pushing boundaries, driving innovation, and enabling digital transformation. Their expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive solutions goes beyond conventional limits, unlocking new possibilities for organizations. In this blog, we will explore how Solution Architects push boundaries and embrace challenges to deliver cutting-edge solutions...

Liquid Code vs JavaScript

For the last two weeks I have been researching and attempting to implement Power Pages Liquid code as opposed to using the more traditional JavaScript.  The main difference between these two languages is that  Liquid is a server-side language whereas JavaScript is a client-side language.  These terms refer to the overall publicity of the used code; a server-side language is the result of the inputted code available for the public to see in the browser and client-side languages can have their full source code viewed by the public on the browser.

Both of these languages have their own uses, with Liquid being more advantageous for sensitive information and JavaScript simply being a more sophisticated language (allowing more complex calculations).

Week 2 at Geoson Solutions is completed as a Marketing Analyst who’s new to using Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE (Customer Engagement) applications. I started by creating Geoson’s Instagram account, researching ways to increase our presence online and branding.  My main task thus far has been to transfer our existing blog posts from Power Pages to the Power Portal platform. Now that I know the essentials, I will dissect these two platforms and reveal which is more friendly to new users...

The last time we spoke about how we can send messages to a service bus, we learned that we could do so with the provided code snippet.  However, that requires us to sign into visual studio with an azure account that has been granted the ‘Azure Service Bus Data Sender’ role...

This project was an interesting one! We must create a custom field called ‘Engine SN’ which maps to User Defined Field 5 from the ‘Sales User-Defined Fields Entry’ form. What’s the purpose of this field? Let us discuss break down the use-cases to understand...

Over the past few weeks, I have been entrusted with the process of transferring and revamping the previously made Geoson Solutions website from Wordpress to the new Microsoft Power Pages platform. Through this process I have familiarized myself with the platform and being a developer new to the Microsoft Power stock of tools, I have found Power Pages to have its own collection of strengths and weaknesses...

A Microsoft Dynamics GP (“Dynamics GP”) client wanted to add a field from one form to another and map that information to the new location. The creation of of the fields and adding to forms in Dynamics GP through out-of-the box (OOB) methods. However, in order to map two fields, we utilize a suite of add-on tools called GP Power Tools. Let us dive in and take a closer look at the problem and how we solved it...

A client’s business objectives is to integrate their e-commerce platform with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE (CRM). One of the goals of this integration was to create an account on the CRM or update if it already existed. As described in the use cases below, we used an Azure Service Bus to receive messages from the client in a JSON format and send the message through an Azure Logic App to meet our objective...

I started working at Geoson Solutions Ltd. as a Software Developer and today marks the end of my first week here. Learning about the company's products and how we use them has been exciting. I would love to share the start of my journey here!...