5 things you should know about Whats new in Facebook 2019

I will be the most dumb guy, if I had to start this post by introducing facebook to the readers. :)

In this post, we are going to see 5 most important updates to Facebook in 2019.

This post is aimed at just giving you a glimpse of what has changed and not in details.

1. Playable Game Ads:

We all like to test drive things before we actually buy it. Similar to Car Test Drives, Trails before buying a dress., etc, Facebook has introduced playable ads for games which allows you to play a minimal version of the game so that users can kind of get a taste on the actual game.

2. Libra: FB's Crypto Currency

Crypto Currencies getting into the spot light these days, Facebook has unveiled its own Crypto Currency named "Libra". Apart from using this crypto currency for typical things like online shopping, developer payments etc, FB also has plans to implement this crypto currency for day today activities like, transactions between individuals.

3. Policy Extension to Canada on Political Ads.

Facebook has recently announced that it is extending the Transparent Ads policy to Canada which means that any ads related to Political or Social issues will be displayed with the information about who paid for these ads.

So, If you want to run ads on Politics, elections etc, you first have to identify yourself first and then you have the option to select whether you want to display your name or a page that is managed by yourself.

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4.Messenger

Facebook has recently taken many steps to bring Messenger into spot light and also to provide a seamless experience while using its other apps like Instagram & Whatsapp.

In view of that, Messenger will be available as an app across Mac & Windows, so that you don't necessarily have to keep the fb tab always open even if you just want to only message your friends.

Facebook is also planning to take Messenger upfront to the Business Usage as well for things like, generating leads via Messenger and also introducing a 24 hour windows within which Business can  reply to the consumers with a promotional message who might be contacting them with queries.

Facebook also has claimed that, soon it will be making the app to a much smaller and faster.

For more information on this policy, click here

5. Algorithm

Facebook state that it has modified its Algorithm to decide what appears on News Feed. This change has been done to keep the focus on posts from Friends,Family and the pages you like. This could give a hard time to the Marketers since they have to work hard to pop into users News Feed. This also means that the more you engage with users, the more your promotional posts might appear in user's feed.

Case Sensitivity on Ribbon Workbench Customisations

If you have noticed the ribbons on the CRM classic UI, you might have seen that labels of the buttons are displayed as Capitals no matter how you configure them on the ribbon workbench.

But with the introduction of the UCI, it displays the labels as how it is configured, i.e if you have entered the label in lowercase, UCI also displays as Lower case and if you have configured the label as Full Caps, UCI also displays as Full Caps.

Recently, I was working on custom buttons and one of the button's name was on Full Caps which stood out a little while the label on other buttons are Initial Caps. So, I decided to edit the label with the Initial Caps via Ribbon Workbench, but even after multiple publish, it just didn't seem to react to my changes. The label was still displayed as Full Caps.

To fix this scenario, I had to do two sequential changes.
The label of the button is "Create Account".
Initially, the label was "CREATE ACCOUNT"  and then changed the label to "Create Account" via Ribbon Workbench but like I mentioned before, it didn't work.
What worked was,
1. Change the label to something that is completely different from the original label. For eg, Contact.
2. Publish the solution
3. Now, edit the label again with "Create Account" (Notice the letters are Initial Caps).
4. Publish the solution now and it should work.

This is basically a scenario where the label of the button is same but you are just trying to change the case of the label.

Dynamics 365 CE: Quick Reference on Client Side Events

Below are the list of components and related events that might occur on the client side which can further be used as triggers for the custom logic implementation using javascript.

Component	Related Events
Attribute	OnChange
Form	OnLoad, OnSave
Form Data	OnLoad
Grid & SubGrid	OnChange, OnLoad ,OnRecordSelect, OnSave
Iframe	OnReadyStateComplete
Knowledge Base Search	OnResultOpened, OnSelection, PostSearch
Lookup Control	PreSearch
Process	OnProcessStatusChange, OnStateChange, OnStageSelected
Tab	TabStateChange