Category Archives: Dynamics 365

How to Add or Remove users from Sandbox instance in Dynamics CRM/365

Introduction: Sandbox instance or Non-Production Instance was introduced with Dynamics CRM Online 2013, and it allows an organization to test and implement processes and avoid any complications and issues on the Production Environment. There may be situations where we need to test the process for multiple users with different security roles. In this blog, we… Read More »

Error Qualifying Lead in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Issue: When qualifying a lead in CRM, we receive the following error message. “Unable to get property ‘getUserPrivilege’ of undefined or null reference Script” Reason: This was a customized system and we noticed the Company and Title field were missing from the lead form. Solution: Add the fields back on the form, and if required… Read More »

Adventures with Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector library has been made available by the Dynamics CRM SDK team to make it easy to perform common operations, using direct functions that have been exposed for these. Exploring the library in came in with a learning experience with subtle differences in how we were used to doing it earlier using API libs available.… Read More »

Approaching Storage Limit in Dynamics 365 – Watch out VOC logs

Introduction: The storage size in Dynamics CRM Online is limited to the size you have purchased or you are eligible for based on your license structure. The usual culprits have been 1. Plugin Trace Logs: Turn it off from the System Settings as shown below 2. Attachments: Look for email attachments and notes attachments and… Read More »

Dynamics 365 Service Administrator now available in Office 365

Introduction: To manage instances of Dynamic CRM, earlier the user had to be designated as a Global Administrator. But with the Global Administrator as the name suggests, the user had access throughout Office 365. To resolve this Office 365 now provides the option of assigning the role of Customized Administrator. With Customized Administrator, you now… Read More »

Resolve $ undefined error for CRM HTML web resource

It is a common requirement to integrate HTML web resource in CRM form or open an HTML web resource as a separate window to have the additional user interface. JQuery library is a common library to perform the script related operation and even to deal with HTML controls in such scenarios. Sometimes we receive error… Read More »

Add WebResource to the Sitemap using Dynamics 365 Site Map editor

Introduction: Until Dynamics 365, editing of the Site Map usually required the use of the popular Site Map Editor Plugin from XRM Toolbox. The plugin provided a visual editor with an easy way to modify the sitemap. The traditional way of editing Site Map required editing the XML tags that was error prone, and therefore… Read More »

Tip: Using SendEmailFromTemplateRequest to directly send an email using the Email Template

Earlier when we had an Email Template created for any entity, we used to follow the below four steps to send an email using Template: Retrieve the Email Template and get the Template Id Instantiate the template using InstantiateTemplate request and get the Response Create the Email in CRM using IOrganizationService object or OrganizationServiceContext object… Read More »