Contracts 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 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 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 readingI ran into an unexpected situation during an upgrade that quite honestly, left me a bit baffled. It seems a breaking change was introduced during the CRM 2011 upgrade process. Some Background In CRM 4.0, you could open an Entity record with either one of the following URLs: http://crm2011/Contoso/userdefined/edit.aspx?id=%7bE50B1A7B-1AA2-E211-953E-00155D200507%7d&etn=new_entity http://crm2011/Contoso/userdefined/edit.aspx?id=%7bE50B1A7B-1AA2-E211-953E-00155D200507%7d&etc=10010 The difference being using […]
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