This morning one of my customers ran into this error while merging two Accounts: Not very descriptive and since the normal Download Log File button was disabled, also not a lot of help. I turned on platform tracing and repeated the merge process so that I could hopefully capture the real error. Here is what […]
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 readingI ran into an interesting issue this week where I was opening up a new Opportunity Entity form from the Account record via a Command Bar button. The issue was that I was getting a warning that I was about to discard changes to the record I was leaving, and would l like to Continue […]
Continue readingSo I am digging around the Dynamics CRM 2015 Spring Update, as I am apt to do, when I ran across something that needs to be changed. There is a recurring bulk delete job that automatically deletes any plug-in trace log records older than one day, as you can see below: This is a little […]
Continue readingYay Team! Here is a bright and shiny bit of newness that has been added to the Date field condition operators: So we now have the ability to query for things that are older than X: Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years Hat’s off to the CRM Dev team. This has been a long time […]
Continue readingYay! Finally, the good folks on the Dynamics CRM team have added the ability to log errors that occur in plugins and custom workflow activities. Plug-In Trace Log This is a new entity that we can access from the Settings, Customization area: Setup You need to enable the logging of exceptions to the plug-in […]
Continue readingThe Spring Release of Dynamics CRM 2015 includes a new forms engine. You may have seen reference to this feature by the code name “Turbo Forms.” The propaganda (marketing) says that we will get as much as a two or three times improvement in the rendering of a Dynamics CRM 2015 form. My limited testing […]
Continue readingI ran into a situation at one of my customers while performing an upgrade from Dynamics CRM 2011 to 2015. On several of their entity forms, they have a filtered lookup in place where one value is filtered based on the value of another field. In this case it is an Account/Contact set of fields, […]
Continue readingDynamics CRM 2015 implemented a new system-wide alerts to inform you of issues with things like the Server-side Sync process. They appear in the user interface as a yellow bar at the top of the page, as you can see below: Clicking the View Alerts button will take you to the Alerts view where you […]
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 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 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 […]
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