Yaniv Arditi

I have written posts on how to debug with the Plugin Registration Tool (PRT) and the PRT features in the past. Working mainly with Online deployments lately, I gathered some insights I would like to share here. First, some facts: Debugging Online deployed Custom Workflow Activities (CWA) with the PRT is currently impossibleThis is sad, because there is no method to debug Online CWA with Visual Studio. The PRT is certainly purposed to help debugging CWA, but the functionality just doesn’t work. Additionally, current (v7.1.1) and former SDK versions do not describe CWA debugging procedure with the PRT,...

Short answer: improving form performance & user experience, that’s what. Long answer: Since version 2011, major entity form elements (Control, Section, Tab) have the Visibility attribute added. This attribute, which is checked by default, determines if the form element will be visible to the user when the entity form loads. Why would you want to render some elements invisible when the form loads? Here are some common reasons: Conditional logic: The form has some business logic related process which requires displaying some elements according to the user actions, e.g, hide Government Id attribute if the user...