SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM is the ultimate documentation tool for your Microsoft Dynamics CRM organization. It produces reports that can only be created programmatically. Since many of you are not developers, we saved you the time and trouble of writing your own tool, packaged it up into a nice bundle, and did it for you. […]
Continue readingVersion 4.3 of SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM is available and you may read more about it here: http://www.crmaccelerators.net/SnapShot Most of the work on this version is internal to the application and includes: Upgraded to the .NET Framework 4.5.2. This may require this framework be installed on your computer, if it is not already installed. […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, I’ve released a new version (4.1) of SnapShot!, my documentation tool for Dynamics CRM. Here are some of the changes: Enhanced security privileges by entity The security privileges by entity report has been enhanced and an issue corrected that did not report a security role properly if the role had no privileges assigned […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, Version 4.0 of SnapShot! is now live. This is the most major update I’ve made in quite a while with so many adjustments that I am skipping versions 3.8 and 3.9 and moving straight to v4.0. The following changes and additions have been made to SnapShot! New Reports Access Team Templates Themes Positions […]
Continue readingOk, maybe I am biased, but I am really proud of the security reports that SnapShot! generates. Here is what they are”": Security Role Report As you can see, this report matches the security role as seen within Dynamics CRM exactly, only this version is a Microsoft Word document: User Privileges Report This […]
Continue readingMy Dynamics CRM documentation tool, SnapShot!, version 3.7 is now available. This version includes the following enhancements and corrections: Compatibility with Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1 The Entity and Field reports now have the GUID for each which I have found very useful when troubleshooting solution import issues. Organizations with a large amount of […]
Continue readingSnapShot! 3.6 is now available. You can read more about it by visiting the SnapShot! product page. You may also download a sample of the reports SnapShot! generates here. What’s in this Release? This release includes the following: New Reports The following new reports are available: Entity Maps Shows the source and target […]
Continue readingI have been working on several upgrade scenarios lately and have decided to offer a new license for my documentation utility, SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM. SnapShot! is designed to give you a complete snapshot of your Dynamics CRM organization. Since things change over time, it is normally licensed on an annual basic But what if […]
Continue readingVersion 3.4 of SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM is now available. This release corrects two issues that were found when running reports against a Dynamics CRM 2011 organization that was upgraded from Dynamics CRM 4.0. Basically, the data structures were slightly different than a Dynamics CRM 2011 installation that was installed from scratch. This resulted in […]
Continue readingI have decided to drop the prices on the top two tiers of the SnapShot! pricing model. Here is the new pricing structure:
Continue readingI was updating my web site last weekend and realized that I am coming up on the two year anniversary of the release of SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM so I thought I would add a little more background around how SnapShot! came to be. In the Beginning SnapShot! was actually created as an spin-off from […]
Continue readingSnapShot! v3.0 added an additional user-interface element called the Processing Log. Since many of the data extraction and reporting processes are long-running, this helps you see exactly what process is occurring. Here is a sample: You know when SnapShot! is completely finished when you see the following line: SnapShot! complete. Also, this information is […]
Continue readingSnapShot! 3.0 for Dynamics CRM is now available. Here is a quick overview of what is included in this release: Enhancements SnapShot! was enhanced in the following ways: Report Generation Speed Internally SnapShot! was entirely re-architected to reduce the amount of time it took to extract data from Dynamics CRM. Additionally, the engines […]
Continue readingOccasionally I found myself needing a comprehensive list of JavaScript functions found within the various Dynamics CRM Web Resources found within the system I was working on. Using technology borrowed from my JavaScript conversion tool, Transformer!, I’ve added a feature to SnapShot! that will create a list of functions found within the various web resources. […]
Continue readingSnapShow! 3.0 includes an auditing summary feature that produces a single Microsoft Excel worksheet that contains a list of all entities and fields that have auditing enabled. This information is normally included in the standard entity and field reports but we wanted something specific that would allow you to generate a concise, consolidated report that […]
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