The doors of my Power Platform JavaScript Development course are now open. They will close on New Year’s Eve (31 December) at midnight (Central time, U.S.). If you have ever wanted to extend your Dynamics skill-set to include JavaScript, then now is the time to act. The course will not be available again until the Spring. […]
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As of this morning, the doors of my Dynamics 365 Advanced JavaScript Development course are now open. They will close on Friday, 10 May at midnight (Central time, U.S.). If you have ever wanted to extend your Dynamics skillset to include JavaScript, then now is the time to act. The course will not be available again […]
Continue readingA new version of SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM is available so if you are needing to produce the ultimate set of documentation for your Dynamics CRM organization, you should check it out. Here are the changes found in v3.3: New Reports: Personal Settings have been added to the Main Report. This report contains the relevant […]
Continue readingVersion 2.0 of SnapShot! is now available. Visit the SnapShot! product page to download the sample reports and get more detailed information. With this update, I’ve added a report that will dump the raw Security Role data returned by CRM. Several people have requested access to the raw data, instead of having the pretty Word […]
Continue readingVersion 3.3 of Explorer! for Dynamics CRM has been released. This release fixes several bugs when extracting information from Dynamics CRM 4.0 and adds a new Bulk Analysis feature scans all entities and produces an Excel report showing the usage of all custom fields. Visit the Explorer! product page for more information and to download […]
Continue readingThis may not be possible in all organizations or situations but if you can, do the following: 1. Restart the SQL Server 2. On the CRM web server, perform an IISRESET. This gives us a clean environment with which to work and can make the upgrade process much faster.
Continue readingBefore you begin the actual upgrade process to upgrade a CRM 4.0 instance to CRM 2011, make sure you have all of the resources required to complete the task. Here are a few things that might stop or delay you: Active Directory Access Make sure you have the proper permissions to the Organizational Unit […]
Continue readingI was moving some custom code into a customer’s development environment when I noticed what I consider a breaking change that I am assuming was added in Update Rollup 12. The URL field on an iFrame’s properties is now converted to a fully-qualified URL. Imagine starting with this: Here we have a custom ASP.NET […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, Well I’ve yet again changed the name of my JavaScript conversion tool for Dynamics CRM, added a bunch of new features, and changed the licensing to better match my other products. Visit the product page here. Here’s an overview: JavaScript Conversion Since the initial release of the product, way back in November […]
Continue readingVersion 1.7 of the Dynamics CRM documentation tool, SnapShot! has been released. Visit the product information page for details and to download a sample report. Change in this version include: JScript Library Usage Report This report shows what libraries are referenced by which forms: JScript Function Reference Report The Function Reference report has been […]
Continue readingIn Dynamics CRM 4.0, the Label property of an IFRAME was not required: With Dynamics CRM 2011, the Label property is required: This is not a problem until you attempt to edit the properties of an IFRAME. If the Label is blank, you will receive and error and be forced to complete the […]
Continue readingThere are times when working in either JavaScript or .NET where you need to either display a CRM record or give the user the option of clicking a link to display a CRM record. The CRM 2011 SDK documents this process here: Open Forms, Views, Dialogs and Reports with a URL? It also includes a […]
Continue readingI’ve made a few enhancements to SnapShot! over the past week or so: 1. I’ve added an optional Pack and Go feature that will compress the generated report files into a .ZIP file for easy transport or archiving. 2. The JScript Web Resource report has been modified to provide more information about JScript web resource […]
Continue readingThis release adds a new set of reports I am calling View Detail which documents the detail found within each system view. The report looks something like this: We’ve also changed the manner in which documents are generated. In SnapShot! 1.5, all documents in Microsoft Word format are now individual files instead of […]
Continue readingI modified the Security Role and User Privilege reports and added a Table of Contents as well as a footer with a page number. This should help navigating the document a little easier. The sample reports have been updated. For more information, please visit the SnapShot! product page. Also, if you have any suggestions for […]
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