I made a change to how the Entities are extracted from Dynamics CRM. Previously, the Entity had to have the CanAddAttributes flag set to true but using this setting left certain Entities out of the list. I’ve modified it to extract any Entity with the IsCustomizable flag set to true. Thanks to Jerry Weinstock for […]
Continue readingI was adding some custom JavaScript to a customer’s Opportunity Entity when I, again, learned the importance of not over-thinking things. I was concatenating three field values and using that combined value to set the value of another field. Unfortunately, one of those fields was an OptionSet. The problem with OptionSets is that when you […]
Continue readingI ran into an interesting issue today during a CRM 4.0 upgrade to 2011. We have a plugin that automatically generates a Contract Detail record when a Contract is created. This is because Contracts need at least one detail record but the customer is not using the actual details. The issue arose when the Contract […]
Continue readingI was working on some queues at a customer last week when I discovered a design issue that I needed to correct. During this process, I decided to write a quick article on the subject and in doing a bit of research, I found my friends at xRM Cubed had already done the hard work […]
Continue readingI ran across an unusual SDK topic last week that I thought I would share. I need to associate a Campaign with a Marketing List. This should be a pretty simple Associate operation but it turns out, if you try to use the standard Associate Request, like one of these three methods (all of which […]
Continue readingI ran into an interesting issue today upgrading a custom workflow activity. I received this error: <OrganizationServiceFault xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <ErrorCode>-2147200995</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" /> <Message>Duplicate workflow activity group name: ”, activity name: ‘Assign email regarding to case’.</Message> <Timestamp>2013-06-14T19:45:24.1533902Z</Timestamp> <InnerFault> <ErrorCode>-2147200995</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" /> <Message>Duplicate workflow activity group name: […]
Continue readingI ran into an interesting issue today upgrading a custom workflow activity. I received this error: <OrganizationServiceFault xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <ErrorCode>-2147200995</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" /> <Message>Duplicate workflow activity group name: ”, activity name: ‘Assign email regarding to case’.</Message> <Timestamp>2013-06-14T19:45:24.1533902Z</Timestamp> <InnerFault> <ErrorCode>-2147200995</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" /> <Message>Duplicate workflow activity group name: […]
Continue readingI was moving some custom code into a customer’s development environment when I noticed what I consider a breaking change that I am assuming was added in Update Rollup 12. The URL field on an iFrame’s properties is now converted to a fully-qualified URL. Imagine starting with this: Here we have a custom ASP.NET […]
Continue readingI have been doing a lot of CRM upgrades lately and one of the side-effects of this process is a lot of documentation and tooling to help the .NET developer move their code to the CRM 2011 object model. If you did not know, or have not heard, the next version of CRM, code-named Orion, […]
Continue readingThe recording today’s webinar is now up: http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/javascript_upgrade_crm2011_Mitch_Milam Here are the main talking points from today’s meeting: Strategies: Here are the strategies I follow when performing an upgrade from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011: #1: Create a test environment #2: Upgrade your object model #3: Use Visual Studio (with add-ins) #4: Reorganize your functions #5: […]
Continue readingThe recording today’s webinar is now up: http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/javascript_upgrade_crm2011_Mitch_Milam Here are the main talking points from today’s meeting: Strategies: Here are the strategies I follow when performing an upgrade from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011: #1: Create a test environment #2: Upgrade your object model #3: Use Visual Studio (with add-ins) #4: Reorganize your functions #5: […]
Continue readingSo we’re two and a half years into the realm of CRM 2011 with the next version, code-named Orion, just over the horizon somewhere. You’ve got to be thinking to yourself: "Well, I guess I can delete that CRM 4.0 SDK folder since it’s taking up disk space and I’m down to only 489GB. Not […]
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