I ran into a very interesting issue last week involving a CRM 4.0 organization that was upgraded to CRM 2011. The organization had two custom security roles in use and for some reason, those security roles didn’t have any security applied to Web Resources ( shown below ): This issue surfaced in a very […]
Continue readingSome may call me Captain Obvious, but sometimes it is the obvious that passes us by. As is today’s Dynamics CRM 2011 topic: Did you know you can hide the ribbon on the main Application or an Entity Form? Well you can. In the upper-right corner of the window, beside the Organization Name, is a […]
Continue readingSome may call me Captain Obvious, but sometimes it is the obvious that passes us by. As is today’s Dynamics CRM 2011 topic: Did you know you can hide the ribbon on the main Application or an Entity Form? Well you can. In the upper-right corner of the window, beside the Organization Name, is a […]
Continue readingThis week, while working on a migration from CRM 4.0 to 2011, I discovered a need to back up my web resources so that we could transfer them easily from our prototype environment to the new production environment that will be created tonight. Rather than create a new utility, I just decided to modify my […]
Continue readingIf you’ve ever explored the CRM SDK folder system, then you have probably noticed it includes various unexpected goodies, which is the topic for today’s article. Look in: sdk\resources\images and you will find 2,540 files representing the various user interface components, such as icons. So, if you’ve ever needed to create an add-on that needs […]
Continue readingIf you have ever worked with the Dynamics CRM Opportunity, you know that it contains a function to recalculate the opportunity when you have selected System Calculated for the Revenue. Here are the major areas of focus for this discussion: When the user presses the Recalculate button on the Ribbon, all of the associated […]
Continue readingRevised 4/16/2012: Added checks for control type to prevent exceptions. I ran into a need to build a list of all of the fields found in all of the sections of a tab, within Dynamics CRM 2011. Here is the JavaScript to do that: function getFieldListFromTab(tabId) { var fieldList = new Array(); var tab […]
Continue readingI see a lot of ‘interesting’ JavaScript working with CRM installations that have been in operation for more than a couple of years. Last week, I found the ultimate example of not knowing how to utilize the CRM object model. CRM 4.0 in this case: for (var i = 0; i < crmForm.all.length; i++) { […]
Continue readingJavaScript allows an administrator to enhance the functionality of Dynamics CRM 2011 in order to better fit your business processes. This Lunch and Learn session delivers an introduction to JavaScript development and will cover the following topics: Setting up your development environment Introduction to the form editor Using web resources CRM form events JavaScript basics […]
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