There are six different operators used in e workflow. 1. Set to: This operator is used to set value of the field of any data type. 2. Append with: This operator can only be used with text field. It will append specified field’s value or the default value to the existing value. This operator has… Read More: Different operators used with workflow »
With Dynamics CRM 2011, Microsoft goes one step further in simplifying the process of moving the customizations from one system to another. In the CRM 2011 you can now simply export and import the customizations in the form of solutions. There are two type of solution in the CRM 2011. 1. Default Solution: This is… Read More: Working with CRM 2011 Solutions »
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web service can throw a number of exceptions. When we use Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web service in application development we need to handle service related exceptions. All Web service method calls use a communication channel to the server based on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology. In WCF terms, exceptions returned from… Read More: Fault and Exception Handling in Dynamics CRM 2011 »
Dynamics CRM 2011 now provides the ability to perform data operations on CRM entities using JSON and ODATA service. Here we have tried to explain the various clauses of JSON that is supported by CRM ODATA and how this service can be used in Silverlight as well as in Scripts. Note not all standard ODATA… Read More: Json and Silverlight with ODataService in CRM 2011 »
In CRM 2011, we have found the new feature for the lookup type fields that you have the ability to see the most recently used items for that lookup while creating the records for entity.Also you can disable this feature as well by default it is enable for all lookup types fields. If you like… Read More: How to Enable and Disable the most recently used items… »
In CRM2011 it is now possible to get the Total count of records returned by a query using Fetch XML. Using Query expression: You can set the ReturnTotalRecordCount property to True. Using FetchXml: You can set the same property as shown below. This can be helpful to show Record 1 of kind of status labels.… Read More: How to get the Total Results returned Record Count for… »
Sometimes you have requirement to open the particular type of new record with some default values already filled. This can be achieved by passing the field values to the query string. To open the new record form https:///main.aspx?etn=&pagetype=entityrecord Pass field values as query string parameters http:///main.aspx?etn=&pagetype=entityrecord&extraqs== If you need to pass the multiple field values… Read More: How to pass field values to Form »
In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 FetchXML includes grouping and aggregation features which let us to use aggregate functions like sum, count etc. Using Group by we can calculate sum, avg, min, max, count. But, Group by clause is not supported through LINQ in CRM. You can only specify one aggregate attribute in a query and you cannot… Read More: Group by using FetchXML »
In the CRM 2011 online if you want to create your custom SSRS report then here is the trouble, you cannot create the report directly using the SQL Queries as you do not have access to SQL Server. For this reason MS has provided BIDS tool for Dynamics CRM 2011. You can download this tool… Read More: Reporting through BIDS in CRM Online 2011 »
With CRM 2011, you now have the concept of including resources within CRM that can they be used to display on CRM forms in IFRAMES and buttons and other customizable objects in CRM. A web resource in CRM can be any of the following Here we take an example of adding a custom html page… Read More: Use of Web Resources in CRM 2011 »