Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2016 Update 1

Solution Patching in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction In our earlier blog we looked into the enhancements made to the way solutions can be created in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016. Now moving forward we will look at a common scenario of sending out Patches for your solution. Often it happens that you may need to update a few components of your managed solution… Read More »

Solution Management with Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction The only supported way of transferring customizations from one CRM organization to another has been through Solutions. The concept of Solution when first released in CRM 2011 was a breakthrough considering before then there was no concept of IP protection. With Solution Management came the concept of Managed and Unmanaged Solutions. Managed a way… Read More »

Web API Actions in Dynamics CRM 2016

Taking forward our series on using WEB API in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, we will now touch upon a feature that was not available in ODATA v2 of the earlier versions. ODATA v2 only provided support for CRUD operations. But Dynamics CRM has some special messages/functions for special operations that are beyond the basic CRUD… Read More »

Execute fetchxml using Web API in Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2016 Update and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 (on-premises) introduced new concept called The Web API. It can be used across a wide variety of programming languages, platforms, and devices. The Web API implements the OData (Open Data Protocol), version 4.0, an OASIS standard for building and consuming Restful APIs. Basically… Read More »

Design Auto Complete Text controls in Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction: On Dec 1st Microsoft released another great version of Dynamics CRM – CRM 2016 that has loads of new features and not to forget developer enhancements too. One of the developer enhancements added to Dynamics CRM 2016 is “Auto Complete” which allows us to provide auto complete feature for the single line text fields.… Read More »

Identify the trigger for an On-load event for Sub-grid in Dynamics CRM

Introduction: With CRM 2015 SP1, the Client API was extended to allow attaching events to sub-grid to manage the sub-grid data/operations. The OnLoad event however executes on all of the following operations Load of parent form. Save of parent form. Add a new record in sub-grid Remove a record from sub-grid Navigating to prev/next page… Read More »

API functions to control Subgrid behavior starting Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1

Introduction: Prior to CRM2015 update 1 the only available function for interacting with the subgrids on the form was refresh(). This function is used to refresh the sub-grid records. With the release of CRM 2015 update 1, more functions were introduced to interact with the sub-grid using JavaScript. Function list: 1. addOnLoad 2. removeOnLoad Use… Read More »

Tips for working with Business Rules in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online

Introduction Microsoft Dynamics CRM introduced Business Rules in CRM 2013 which provides custom business logic. You can read more about how to use Business Rules from one of our earlier blogs found here In this blog we are going to show new abilities added in Business Rules for Dynamics CRM Update 1 as well as… Read More »

Support to open an Entity form in a new Window in Dynamics CRM 2015 SP1

Introduction: Every CRM update comes with a lot of goodies for both the developers and the end users, so Dynamics CRM 2015 SP1 was not different. One of such feature is opening a record in a new window. While most of you`ll think, what`s so great in this, we have been doing this since CRM… Read More »