I am going to admit up front I may be the only person using CRM 2011 to have this problem, but just in case there is another developer out there, I wanted to share a little best practice that I have taught myself. When navigating the CRM 2011 customization treeview it is easy to become […]
Continue readingIn our last article, we discussed the creation of bulk deletion jobs. In this article we are going to discuss the finer points of managing those bulk delete jobs. Under the Settings area, you will find a Data Management link which, among other tasks, contains an operation for Bulk Record Deletion: Bulk record deletion operations […]
Continue readingI was entering some sample data when I happened to notice the Delete button on the ribbon contained an arrow. Hmm, I wondered, what does that arrow do if I push it. Here’s what it does: Very good. Not only can you delete the currently selected records, but you can also create a bulk-delete job […]
Continue readingWhile working on yesterday’s article, I ran into several issues attempting to import my Sitemap. Since I wasn’t exactly sure what it was, I decided to turn on CRM Tracing to track down the internal error. Here is what I found in the trace logs: Crm Exception: Message: The import file is invalid. XSD validation […]
Continue readingWhen you deleted a record in CRM 4.0, it didn’t physically delete the record at that point in time, it merely marked it for deletion. Once per day, an automated background process would run to delete any such records. With CRM 2011, Microsoft changed the architecture so that a delete operation is physically performed when […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, I am really enjoying Convergence 2011 this week so I thought I would pass along some great news and even greater news about the CRM Migration Assistant, our JavaScript conversion tool. Great News In honor of Convergence 2011, we’re offering a 10% discount through Sunday, April 17th. Just enter the code: CONV11 upon […]
Continue readingI am working hard to put one of the last major features into my CRM Migration Manager and ran across some interesting issues today and the background information was equally interesting so I thought I’d share: Error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException Using the exception-handling code ask documented in the CRM 2011 SDK (5.0.2), I received the following […]
Continue readingOccasionally, you will find a need to change the display name of an organization, which is an operation performed through the CRM Deployment Manager by someone who has the Deployment Manager security role. How’s it done Open the CRM 2011 Deployment Manager then select the Organizations node. The list of organizations should look something like […]
Continue readingI thought I’d make not of this topic ( which is found in the CRM 2011 SDK ) because when you attempt to export the Default Solution, it seems to “wantâ€? to perform the export, but never does – AND it never gives you an error. So, if you want to modify the SiteMap, follow […]
Continue readingIf you plan on writing anything that uses the CRM 2011 SDK, you may at some point run into the following error message: The application terminated with an error. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Solution: You need […]
Continue readingIn CRM 4.0 developers sometimes needed to extract data from the parent form of a record opened from one of the associated views attached to the record. A contact record opened from an Account would be a perfect example. Well, CRM 2011’s JavaScript object model is slightly different so using the following technique doesn’t work: […]
Continue readingAs I was producing the associated documentation for my CRM Migration Assistant application, I decided to explore a comparison between a technique that we had to do the “hard wayâ€? in CRM 4.0 and a technique that is built into CRM 2011 The technique in question is retrieving a user’s security roles in order to […]
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