Nothing beats real testing to shake out the bugs on a newly migrated system. These should include: Real users Real data Actual processes This should be of no surprise to anyone, but the idea that having real users test the system is far better than just have the development staff perform tests. And this type […]
Continue readingThere is an update to the Implementation Guide available on Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh699811.aspx At this point, this information is not available in the downloadable version, which you can find here: Here is a list of the new and updated topics: Report writing with CRM 2015 for online and on-premises added section that includes several topics. Update […]
Continue readingSometimes it is the simplest things that make me happy. I was digging through some Xamarin.Forms code on Github when I noticed the use of the Scale property on a view and I thought to myself, “Does that do what I think it does?” Sure enough, it does. It will change the scale a view […]
Continue readingAs you are migrating and testing your code, it may be a good idea to disable any plugins that fire when you are creating and updating a record. This allows you the freedom to test your JavaScript without having to worry about other system components causing issues during the testing process. We do this because […]
Continue readingMinification is the process of reducing the amount of space a JavaScript file occupies by removing things like formatting and comments and overall rewriting the code to take up less space. This generally gives you a slight gain in performance because smaller files are faster to download from the web site. The biggest issue you […]
Continue readingI have found it very convenient to have a standard email template to use as a basis for sending out general-purpose emails. The template can be named anything you wish, and use which ever email editor you most commonly use. In my case, I just used the standard Block Editor: The default template for the […]
Continue readingSpeaking of feature creep, web resources are one of the few system-level data items that can sort of build-up over time, if not properly maintained. Again, this happens because of a change in business direction, a rewrite of functionality, etc. Most of the time, these unused web resources cause no problems at all, other than […]
Continue readingOne of my customers has had an issue with their CRM system since I upgraded them from Dynamics CRM 4.0 to 2011. Basically the System Settings page will not allow you to make changes. I got the following JavaScript error: <ScriptErrorDetails> <Message>Object doesn’t support property or method ‘down'</Message> <Line>426</Line> <URL>/tools/systemsettings/dialogs/systemsettings.aspx</URL> <PageURL>/tools/systemsettings/dialogs/systemsettings.aspx</PageURL> <Function>anonymousr:Objectdoesn’tsupportpropertyormethod’down'</Function> <FunctionRaw>TypeError: Object doesn’t […]
Continue readingI really cannot emphasize this enough, but this is your chance to fix all of your code and architecture issues. You are taking the time to, in most cases, upgrade your hardware platforms, move the databases around, etc., so why would you not spend time fixing code that has existed for years. The chances are […]
Continue readingI am in the process of migrating one of my customers from Dynamics CRM 2011 to Dynamics CRM 2015. While moving to the new environment, I am also moving their forms to the new form model. While working on the Contract form, I noticed that every record that I reviewed had no activities associated with […]
Continue readingSnapShot! 3.6 is now available. You can read more about it by visiting the SnapShot! product page. You may also download a sample of the reports SnapShot! generates here. What’s in this Release? This release includes the following: New Reports The following new reports are available: Entity Maps Shows the source and target […]
Continue readingSeveral of my tools generate Microsoft Excel and Word documents as part of their output and for the longest time, I have used various open-source libraries to provide me with OpenDocumentXML functionality to generate real worksheets and documents, instead of just CSV and plain text files. The only problem, especially with my SnapShot! documentation utility, […]
Continue readingAs most of you know, I have a several add-on products for Dynamics CRM developers, administrators, and consultants. They all share common user interface and application frameworks that I developed several years ago. When I first started writing these tools all I had to worry about was Dynamics CRM 4.0, which was pretty easy. Then […]
Continue readingI ran into a couple of things while performing a fresh on-premise installations of Dynamics CRM 2013 and 2015 that I wanted to capture. Service Credentials Dynamics CRM 2015 does not like it when the SSRS service, SQL Server Reporting Services (MSSQLSERVER), is running under a local user account so I had to change […]
Continue readingWay back in 2006 I write an article, Cascading Style Sheet Color chart, with a link to a site that created a set of colors that matched the Behr Premium paint swatches. I thought that might be valuable in my Xamarin.Forms work so I converted their work and created an Extended Color Palette structure using […]
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