Tag Archives: Entity

How to show Filtered Lookup Dialog in Dynamics CRM through Script

We had a requirement where in we were supposed to show a Filtered Custom Lookup on form load. By Filtered Custom Lookup, it meant that we were supposed to create a Lookup dialog similar to CRM Filtered lookup (Filtered Lookup value changes on the basis of other Lookup on which it is dependent) dialog. The… Read More »

Enhanced Business Process Flow in CRM 2015 – VEGA release

As you may be aware, Microsoft has come up with Business process flow feature in CRM 2013 which provides assistance to users in CRM using stages to be followed in order to complete the whole process. Earlier Limitations: Strictly Linear Process: Business processes are designed to work only in linear manner, no branching is allowed.… Read More »

Issue with the Lookup View selected during Customizations not being honored in Tablet

Issue: Usually when placing a lookup field on the form, we also select the view based on which the records should be displayed in the lookup window. The same behavior is expected for the Tablet application as well. But we came across a scenario where the lookup displayed all records irrespective of the view selected… Read More »

Using “PreEntityImage” and “PostEntityImage” in Workflows

As we all know that we can always read Pre image and Post image in the plug-in for various purpose. However, in workflow, we may sometimes want to read Pre Image for some purpose. Now we can also read Pre Images and Post Images in the workflow using Execution Context. It uses the same Plug-in… Read More »

Duplicate Detection is back in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Spring Release

How good were the old days of CRM 2011 that even at the point of creation of records you were notified on the entity form itself that the particular record is a duplicate record and hence the data duplication was reduced to a considerable amount. But suddenly in CRM 2013 Duplicate Detection was removed partially i.e.,… Read More »