Author Archives: Inogic

Dynamically control Form Navigation

CRM 2011 introduced the feature to design more than one form for an entity and assign form to users based on their role (Role Based Form). It has also included a feature where by it would automatically open the form that was last used by the logged in user for that entity. If you would… Read More: Dynamically control Form Navigation »

MVP Awarded!

2012 starts with a bang for Team Inogic. We take pride in announcing that one of our Team Members known to you all as Sam is now a Dynamics CRM MVP. Well done!!!

ODATA Properties and Methods Explored…

Here are some of the ODATA context properties that would help us during debugging and understanding the behavior of the context when performing various operations.1. DataServiceContext.Entities:Gets a list of all the records currently being tracked by the DataServiceContext. While using OData service, we frequently get the error that context already tracking the record. With the… Read More: ODATA Properties and Methods Explored… »

Performing CRUD Operations synchronously in CRM 2011 through JSON

Synchronous methods to create, update and delete the records for the Account entity through JSON. These methods works synchronously. Create Records: To create the record into the CRM, you need to create an object for that record. After that you need to create the object of the XMLHttpRequest and open this request through “POST” method… Read More: Performing CRUD Operations synchronously in CRM 2011 through JSON »

Read records synchronously using JSON in CRM 2011

Common knowledge is that we can make JSON requests through scripts in CRM 2011 to retrieve data from CRM entities. However, the JSON request works asynchronously i.e it does not return the results immediately and the control moves to the next line of code to be executed. It so happened during one of our development… Read More: Read records synchronously using JSON in CRM 2011 »

Where are the List Members of a Dynamic Marketing List?

In CRM 4.0 there was no concept of Dynamic Marketing List. We could create only static Marketing lists until CRM 2011. Now in CRM 2011 Microsoft has introduced the concept of Dynamic Marketing list. In Dynamic Marketing List the Marketing List Members are selected based on the critieria that is set for the Marketing lists.… Read More: Where are the List Members of a Dynamic Marketing List? »

CRM 2011 Developer ToolKit

Recently Microsoft has developed Developer Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 that is integrated with Visual Studio to accelerate the development of custom code for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions. Microsoft Dynamics CRM developers can now write custom code from within Visual Studio by using tools and can automatically deploy that code to the CRM… Read More: CRM 2011 Developer ToolKit »

Enable Scripts on Bulk Edit form in CRM 2011

CRM 2011 includes the feature to enable script on the bulk edit form. By default the scripts are disabled for bulk edit forms. To enable the script for Bulk edit forms check the below syntax See below detailed descriptions for the attributes. Steps to enable the script on bulk edit form:– Include the entity for… Read More: Enable Scripts on Bulk Edit form in CRM 2011 »