As I have stated previously, if you are not using Visual Studio to edit your Dynamics CRM JavaScript, you are doing yourself a huge disservice. Consider this code: Can you spot the problem? Visual Studio and Resharper did. Notice the blue line under Industrytotal? It is there because Industrytotal has not been defined […]
Continue readingHere is the detail of that error: Some plug-ins or custom workflow activities in your system appear to be using the Microsoft CRM 4.0 SDK. Use of the Microsoft CRM 4.0 SDK is not supported in this release. For information about how to upgrade custom code, refer to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK topic […]
Continue readingI ran into this issue again and although I am sure I write about it before, I can’t find a reference to it. The Scenario In Dynamics CRM 4.0 it was quite common for companies (on-premise) to have custom ASP.NET pages that were shown within the context of the Dynamics CRM web site. Since they […]
Continue readingOne of my SnapShot! customers ran into what could be one of the strangest anomaly’s this week that I thought I would document here, so that other people (including myself) can find it. They were running SnapShot! against a Dynamics CRM 2011 organization as they were prototyping to move to Dynamics CRM 2011. The organization […]
Continue readingUpgrading your Dynamics CRM organization from version 4.0 to anything newer can be a lot of work. The amount of work will depend on how much custom code (JavaScript and Plugins) that you have installed. This is where having a test environment pays for the time and money it takes to create it. When the […]
Continue readingThe .title property in JavaScript is used by Dynamics CRM 4.0 to display a tool tip when you hover a mouse over the field. Here is an example: crmForm.all.new_name_c.title = "Please validate their legal name."; Unfortunately, there is no equivalent within Dynamics CRM 2011 so an alternative will need to be investigated. […]
Continue readingThere are certain cases where it is necessary to customize the CRM user interface to perform a specific action or to inform the user of a specific condition or alert, or whatever. This was mainly accomplished by changing the .style property of a field. Such actions were totally unsupported in CRM 4.0 and remain so […]
Continue readingThe use of the JavaScript method eval is considered to be bad coding practice by most of the JavaScript Technorati. That doesn’t stop people from using it, and it makes automatic conversion verify difficult. Consider this code: this.FieldName1 = "name"; eval(‘this.Field1 = crmForm.all.’ + this.FieldName1); While I will not debate the merits of […]
Continue readingConsider this code segment: var oField = executionObj.getEventSource(); if (oField.id == “new_field1” || oField.id == “new_field2”) { // do something } This uses the JavaScript .id property to retrieve the field name. Since this type of code can represent both form controls as well as data items (from SOAP or REST calls), it would be […]
Continue readingThere are occasions which some of us may experience during or shortly after the upgrade of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 system to CRM 2011 where we discover we have plugins that cannot be removed by the Plugin Registration Tool. Most of the time this is caused by the plugin being registered as "on disk" and […]
Continue readingContracts 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 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 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 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 […]
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