As 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 readingSo one of my customers ran into this issue while opening an Opportunity. As you can see, a custom plugin was throwing an exception because it could not find a Account with a specified ID. That part is 100% correct. The Account with that ID indeed does not exist in the database. The problem is, […]
Continue readingUsing a static Marketing List to identify records where a specific criteria does not exist Today we have a guest post from fellow CRMUG D/FW member Torrey Landry. Background All Sales managers want to know what population of their target audience has not purchased a certain product. How do you build a view to tell […]
Continue readingI verified a strange bug related to attachments and the deleting of the parent record chain. If you delete an Email with an attachment it deletes the attachment. If you delete a Contact with emails that have attachments the email is deleted but not the attachment. For on-premise CRM administrators, you can use this script […]
Continue readingWay back when, like in version 3.0 and 4.0, Dynamics CRM had a hidden page that would display a list of entities and attributes in a concise list. That went away in version 2011 but the good folks on the CRM SDK team (Jim specifically), created a managed solution that was included in the SDK. […]
Continue readingOne of my customers occasionally runs into the following error when attempting to renew a contract: This is a very strange error given that the contract was created correctly and has been in place for long time. Here is what causes this issue: Here is an example of the Contract Start and End dates: If […]
Continue readingThere are occasions which some of us may experience during or shortly after the upgrade of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 system to CRM 2011 where we discover we have plugins that cannot be removed by the Plugin Registration Tool. Most of the time this is caused by the plugin being registered as "on disk" and […]
Continue readingI am a big fan of the Simplified Connection technology added by the Xrm.Client assembly and use it almost exclusively. Recently, I ran into the same issue at two separate customers. Both had just converted from CRM 4.0 and both had plugins and custom ASP.NET web pages in use. Occasionally, the following exception would be […]
Continue readingIn a word: NO. I recently added the JavaScript date library Date.js to an installation to get some date calculation functionality. It worked great but totally broke the CRM date controls. After much troubleshooting and some helpful advice from my friend Tanguy, I realized Date.js was incompatible with CRM and I had to remove it […]
Continue readingContracts within Dynamics CRM can sometimes be a little peculiar to work with. Case in point: You must have at least one Contract Detail record associated with the contract in order to make it function properly. The issue there is that some companies don’t actually care about detail lines, but they have to have them […]
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: […]
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