Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1

Set Address using Lookup Address for locked Address fields in Dynamics CRM

Recently, we had a request, the request is like this, Bill-To address and Ship-To address on the Quote would be locked fields. This means, one way of setting the Bill-To and Ship-To is by using Lookup Address button. So, initially we thought it would be a Cakewalk. We wrote a script and called it on… Read More »

Sending Marketing Newsletter From Dynamics CRM

If you want to send marketing newsletter(or any content that has HTML content) to all your Leads/Accounts/Contacts by using Quick Campaign by Email using Email template then you can select the accounts/leads/contacts for which you want to send the newsletter and create quick campaign as shown below. In case you want to send newsletter to specific… Read More »

Automatic record creation or update rules in Dynamics CRM 2015 SP1

Microsoft always believes in making life of people simpler using their product. This is what happens with every update of Dynamics CRM. There was one feature introduced in CRM 2013 to ease the life of CRM users and that feature was Automatic case record creation through email and social monitoring. This was indeed a very… Read More »

Updating Date Values of Existing Records after modifying the Date/Time Behaviour in Dynamics CRM Online Update 1

Introduction In one of our earlier posts found here we had explained how the new date/time behaviour can be used to record date/times in the format that you require, instead of having it store the values in UTC all the time. So you can now go and modify the behaviour of an existing date/time field… Read More »

Tips for working with Business Rules in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online

Introduction Microsoft Dynamics CRM introduced Business Rules in CRM 2013 which provides custom business logic. You can read more about how to use Business Rules from one of our earlier blogs found here In this blog we are going to show new abilities added in Business Rules for Dynamics CRM Update 1 as well as… Read More »

Support to open an Entity form in a new Window in Dynamics CRM 2015 SP1

Introduction: Every CRM update comes with a lot of goodies for both the developers and the end users, so Dynamics CRM 2015 SP1 was not different. One of such feature is opening a record in a new window. While most of you`ll think, what`s so great in this, we have been doing this since CRM… Read More »

Converting Date/Time based on user timezone in SSRS reports for Dynamics CRM Online

Converting Date/Time values according to a timezone is quite easy in languages like javascript, C#, etc. but achieving this in SSRS reports is a challenging task. For CRM online we can achieve this using CRM parameter in SSRS reports. We have covered a work around to achieve this functionality in SSRS reports for CRM online.… Read More »

Accessing related entities fields in Calculated Fields formulas in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015

Introduction: In our recent blog post about calculated fields we have covered about calculated fields support extended for Date/Time data types in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1. You can read this blog here. In this blog we will focus on accessing related entities fields in calculated fields formulas. In Calculated fields, you can define… Read More »

Calculated fields support extended for Date/Time data types in Dynamics CRM 2015

Introduction: Calculated fields was first introduced in Dynamics CRM 2015 and it further improved upon the ability to provide codeless solutions to power users to configure. You can learn more about its features from our earlier blog here. It provided support for most CRM data types however the calculations and formulae supported for Date/Time fields… Read More »

Hierarchy Support in Dynamics CRM 2015 SDK

Introduction Hierarchies were introduced in Dynamics CRM 2015.  Hierarchy provided a way for visualizing relation between records and identify where the records reside in parent child relationship. As in example below shows where “Test Account02” situated in hierarchy tree. SDK Support To support the ability to retrieve records based on Hierarchy, the SDK was enhanced… Read More »