Happy Friday everyone. I get asked all of the time about becoming a Dynamics CRM Developer or becoming a better one. Here are two things you can do today, to start down that path: 1. Sign up for Visual Studio Team Services Formerly Visual Studio Online. It is free for up to 5 developers and […]
Continue readingThe Dynamics CRM SDK was updated on 6 May and here is a list of the changes. Apply SLAs to entities New topic containing information about the SLA support for various entities in CRM. Azure integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Work with CRM event data in your Azure Event Hub solution Write a listener application […]
Continue readingEvery one of us has been guilty, or will be guilty, of creating a bad solution to a problem at some point in our career. If you have not done so yet, just be prepared, your day will come. Most of the time, people do not start off trying to create a bad solution, it […]
Continue readingIn a thread on one of the community forms, Debra asked how to properly add some JavaScript she had found on another forum post to make the first letter in each word uppercase (while the remainder is lower-case). This is called title-case, by the way. Taking the code that Debra mentioned, I modified it a […]
Continue readingI was preforming a pre-upgrade cleanup for a customer when I ran into this: As you can see, they took a relatively unused field, Address 1: County, and repurposed it and called it Current Software. This is a very, very, bad thing. For one, it is totally unnecessary. Maybe back in the 1980’s when we […]
Continue readingHappy Friday Everyone, I have just released a new training guide for those of you interested in growing your Microsoft Dynamics CRM knowledge. The purpose is to walk you through the creation of every type of data entry field, format, and behavior available within the Dynamics CRM system. It was written against Dynamics CRM 2016, […]
Continue readingI ran across an issue this week creating a workflow for an entity that had fields set to read-only. If you’ve never run across this before, setting the Read Only property on a field will not only restrict the modification of field data to the user, but also when working with the CRM workflow editor. […]
Continue readingIn yesterday’s post, Tracing the Dynamics CRM Form Data save Operation, I discussed identifying data that would be sent to the database when you saved a Dynamics CRM record. Part of the issue I was facing was related to the form not completing the save operation before I opened a new form record. Since Dynamics […]
Continue readingBack in March I wrote the following article: Dynamics CRM Developer Tip O’ the Day: Working with Tabs. Today I was working on some pre-existing customer JavaScript and ran across this: Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(0).sections.get(6).setVisible(false); // Hide section Don’t ever do that! Bad developer! Bad! So again, never, ever use the numerical value to reference a Tab or […]
Continue readingAs I mentioned a couple of week ago, my upgrade from CRM 2013 to CRM 2015 did not go well. One of the issues is my SiteMap was totally broken and I had to replace it with the “default.” The only problem was I wiped out the custom entries for my marketing package, Click Dimensions. […]
Continue readingOver on my main company site, CRM Accelerators, I have concluded a series on strategies related to converting your JavaScript from Dynamics CRM 4.0 to 2011+. Strategies Here is the summary: JavaScript Upgrade Gotcha #1: The .id property JavaScript Upgrade Gotcha #2: Using the JavaScript eval method JavaScript Upgrade Gotcha #3: The .style property JavaScript […]
Continue readingI was adding some “fancy” to a Contact form today that I thought I would share with you: [wpgist id=”38d9fb0f91118186f96e”] The Concept On the Contact form, I have added the two sets of addresses that are built into Contact and am calling them Primary Address and Secondary Address. I thought it would enhance the […]
Continue readingIt turns out that the Searchable proper on the Contact field Do not allow bulk emails defaults to No, as you can see below: This is a problem when you want to perform a search for Contacts who have this field set to Yes. To change this setting, perform these steps: 1. Select Settings, Customization, […]
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. […]
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