17 posts published in 2025.
“The hard part was never writing the rule. It was making sure someone could still explain it eighteen months later.” John Grace – North52 CEO The Vibe Coding Illusion A team lead I spoke with earlier this year had a story that stuck with me. His organization had just wrapped a sprint where a busines
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview Doctor/Physician certification and credential management is a critical yet complex challenge for healthcare organizations. Medical staff must navigate intricate training pathways where certifications build upon one anoth
“Every D365 JavaScript web resource & C# Plugin generated from a chat prompt is a future archaeology project for someone who wasn’t in the room.” John Grace – North52 CEO Just describe what you want in plain English. The AI spits out a working plugin. Deploy it, move on. It feels like the future bec
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview This North52 rules engine example implements a fraud detection and order management system for Shopify orders. Shopify sends information to Dataverse via a webhook. This triggers a Flow and calls a custom action which is
Your LinkedIn feed has changed. Where it used to be full of people debating low-code vs. pro-code, now it’s full of people building entire applications in an afternoon with Claude Code or Cursor, narrating the process in real time, often with a tone of mild disbelief. And fair enough. The barrier to
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview Using AI to help analyze emails can make the processing of enquires very efficient. Microsoft Dataverse provides AI functions that can be easily used within the North52 business rules engine to automate this processing.
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview When operating in a call center environment and using Microsoft Dynamics 365/Dataverse, providing crucial information to agents about the caller can improve the call handling outcome. Whether is it identifying a frequent
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview Easily create a Microsoft Dynamics Field Service Work Order from a Quote using the North52 business rules engine. There is no out-of-the-box capability to create a Work Order from a Quote, but it can easily done using No
New Features Added support for Microsoft Source Control Enhanced the Alert() function so that it can take a parameter which can cancel a client-side save event Enhanced the ConfirmDialog() function so that it can take a parameter which can cancel a client-side save event Added extra performance logg
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview Using a custom action we show you how to trigger North52 Decision Table rules as part of your Azure Data Factory pipeline. The Decision Table rules in this scenario have been purposely kept simple as the focus of this ar
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview AI Large Language Models (LLMs) are inherently probabilistic, making them less suitable for scenarios requiring fast and consistently 100% accurate results. However, integrating a Dataverse Agent with the North52 busines
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview This article covers the setup required to configure access to and from an Azure Service Bus Queue. In this example we will be working with Dental Claims. The claims are created on an external system and then passed onto
New Features Added support for Microsoft Source Control Ensure that GetFormId() returns an empty Guid for Quick Create forms. Increased performance for Publishing Enhanced the clean-up of SDK Message Processing Steps in solutions OpenEntityForm() function can now open in a new window Bugs Fixed bug
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview When working with complex rules it is often desirable to have a log of the rules that were executed and what was the event and field changes that triggered the rules. North52 provides detailed trace logging, however, it
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview This article shows how you can use the North52 business rules engine for Microsoft Dynamics 365/Dataverse and the Azure Maps Get Search Address API to set Latitude and Longitude based on the address details of a Lead. It
New Functions FileDownload(), FileUpload() , FileDelete() Bugs Fixed Publish issue with formula detail (fetch-xml) by reverting EnableLiteRetrieve flag to a default of false Full release history is available here
New Features Set EnableLiteRetrieve flag to a default of true Enhanced OpenForm() function to open non-modal windows Enhanced trace log information New option to create trace logs under the System user New Functions IntToChar(), CharToInt() Bugs Fixed Solution Import error about sdk message processi
