Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2016

Working with Report Pre-Filtering for related entities using Fetch XML

Introduction: Pre-filtering is one of the most important and useful features of reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Pre-filtering allows filtering of the report data using the Advance Find functionality and enables users to create context-sensitive reports and return more relevant data. Pre-filtering passes the set of selected record or a specific record (such as Quote)… Read More »

Open Voice of the Customer survey link in a specific language using translations

Introduction: Voice of the Customer surveys that was introduced in Dynamics CRM 2016 has enabled organizations to get feedback from their customers across devices. To know how to create VOC survey and survey activity, refer this article. In this blog, we will guide you through the process of opening a Voice of the Customer Survey… Read More »

Effortlessly Export Dynamics CRM/365 Reports to PDF, Word or Excel!

Business reports compiled from Microsoft Dynamics 365 data can be a powerful tool for Organizations to evaluate performance and strategize short-term and long-term goals. While reports can be remarkably useful for the organization, employees often spend a considerable amount of time preparing these reports. This is a concern for many organization as it is not… Read More »

Plugin Pre-validation Operation to Show an Error Message as well as Log the Error

Introduction: We had a business requirement, where we created a custom entity with a grid of Associated Accounts. Here, we wanted to restrict the Account while adding Accounts in the Associated View. We wanted to do this when the Account does not have the status reason ‘Approved’ by showing an error message and sending an… Read More »

Accept Signatures on Mobiles and Tablets using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016/365

With the world moving towards Mobile and tablets and using touch enabled controls and accepting signatures on the apps directly becoming the norm, it was time for Microsoft to start support for such controls for their tablet and phone apps. With Dynamics CRM 2016 / 365 many new controls were introduced to create a more… Read More »

Using External Fonts in Dynamics 365

Introduction There are various scenarios where we need to develop client extensions in Dynamics CRM to achieve our task. HTML web resources can make a huge difference in Dynamics CRM when we want to create custom web pages to extend our business logic. Web pages with custom fonts give us that added advantage needed to… Read More »

Insufficient Permissions Error on Assigning a record in Dynamics 365

Introduction While working on one of our client requirement, we came across with one interesting scenario about security roles access level setup for Read and Assign privileges, which leads to errors on Dynamics CRM forms. Scenario: The requirement was to allow a user with specific security role in Dynamics CRM say “Salesperson” to assign lead… Read More »