It is important that you avoid class level declaration and initialization of variables in Plugins and Workflows. Let us discuss the issues that one can face with Plugins. Plugins as you know is executed synchronously. But if there happen to be multiple calls made to the same plugin assembly and class, a new object for… Read More: Issues with class level declaration in CRM 4 Plugins and… »
CRM 2011 provides a different feature to use java script as compared to CRM 4. In CRM 2011 you cannot write script directly in form event. Here they have provided a facility to create form library where you can write your own java script function. Only after creating a form library user will be able… Read More: How to Show address using Bing Map in CRM 2011? »
There have been times where you need to provide a different header on one page and another on the second page or say every alternate page. This concept has been provided in MS Word, where you are allowed to setup a Odd Page Header and an Even Page Header. Should you want to incorporate this… Read More: Odd/Even Page Header/Footer using SRS Reports »
Plugins in Dynamics CRM, allow you to register images against the steps of a plugin assembly. Images are a way to pass the image of the record that is currently being worked upon prior or after the action has been performed. In general it could be said, it is the image of the record as… Read More: Pre-Image & Post Image Explained ! »
There are times when you would like to restrict the number of rows that are being displayed on one page in a table. By default if you add a table to a report and set the datasource to a dataset, it will list out all the rows of the dataset in there and if the… Read More: How to display fixed number of rows in a table… »
When a new contract is created in CRM, it is in the Draft state and cannot be utilized to assign a case against it. For a contract to be available, it must be activated. A contract is automatically activated by CRM if the following conditions have been met.1. There must be contract lines added to… Read More: How to activate contract in CRM »
Dynamics CRM provides feature to create announcement that can be broadcast to the entire organization. it can be viewable by the entire organization if the users have been given the permission to read the Announcements.How to create the announcements 1. In the Navigation Pane, click Settings, click Administration, and then click Announcements.2. On the Actions… Read More: Working of Announcement »
CRM has this great scheduling feature that lets you schedule resources for a job based on the availability as well as the skill set (service) being required to perform the job. You can associate a user with a particular service through the Required Resources Tab. Once you have the user selected in the selection rule… Read More: How to allow a single resource to be scheduled for… »
Once we observed that creating a new email activity using an email template with some images in its body does not come through properly and only image links appear in the body.During our research, we found another way to send an email with the above same email template in it. The steps to perform this… Read More: How to send email through email template which contains image… »
In our organization, we wanted that some of our users should not be allowed to close an opportunity. In the user roles we didn’t find this specific privilege. Hence, we removed the “AppendTo” privilege from the opportunity entity for the role of those users who are not allowed to close opportunities. Thereafter, whenever that user… Read More: Permissions to users for closing opportunities »