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How to answer the questions the platform won't.

Practical method, written for people who already know Dynamics. Each guide shows the manual approach in full, including where it runs out. Nothing here needs Pathix to be useful.

Why “Show Dependencies” doesn’t show you everything

8 min read

The platform tracks declared metadata references, not logic. What that covers, what it cannot see, and a 90-second experiment to check it in your own environment.

How to find every writer of a Dataverse field, by hand

12 min read

The full manual method, worked against a real solution export: workflow XAML, flow definition JSON, canvas app PowerFx, plugin registrations, form scripts, and the two surfaces you cannot inspect by hand at all.

A field changed and nobody knows why

11 min read

A diagnostic walkthrough: what audit attribution actually tells you, narrowing by deployment time and by what is bound to the table, the patterns usually responsible, and where the trail goes cold.

The integration account problem in Dataverse

soon

How service accounts accumulate privilege over the years, and what a role shared between humans and integrations actually grants once you work it through.

What breaks when you change a Dataverse column

soon

Renaming, retyping and deleting columns. Which changes are reversible, which are one-way doors, and how to order the work.

What Solution Checker checks, and what it doesn’t

9 min read

A dev-time linter and an environment-wide dependency graph answer different questions. Where the boundary sits, including what Solution Checker does better.

More on the way. If there is a question you keep having to answer the hard way, tell us and we will write it up: brian@pathix.app.

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