Maplytics InfoCentre Launched – User guides, ebooks are Passé

Maplytics – One of the most comprehensive maps solution integrating your Microsoft Dynamics CRM on-premises or online installation with Bing Maps. First, it was printed hard copies then it moved to e-books, and now in this age of the connected world, it’s all about being always accessible on the Web for anyone at anytime. No… Read More: Maplytics InfoCentre Launched – User guides, ebooks are Passé »

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: Design Auto Complete Text controls in Dynamics CRM 2016 »

Error Upgrading CRM 2011 On-Premises to CRM 2013 On-Premises

We were upgrading Dynamics CRM 2011 On-Premises to CRM 2013 On-Premises. As every CRM developer would be aware that CRM upgrades are never a smooth sailing ride. We stumbled upon an error while importing organization in Deployment Manager. The error we came across was, Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint ‘UQ_LocalizedLabelCheck’. Cannot insert duplicate key in… Read More: Error Upgrading CRM 2011 On-Premises to CRM 2013 On-Premises »

Configure your own Dashboards in Maplytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Dashboards are the one of the most used feature of Maplytics-Bing Map Integration for Dynamics CRM. You can design geographical dashboards using components from Maplytics as can be seen in the screenshot below. Maplytics ships with the following 5 pre-defined Dashboards for various Sales and Service Modules for different user roles. Maplytics Customer Service Representative… Read More: Configure your own Dashboards in Maplytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM »

Configure tooltips in Maplytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

In our last post we saw about how to configure entity map in your Maplytics. One of the parts of configuring the entity map is to define the data that you would like displayed in the tooltip of the pushpin. This post covers setting up the attributes to be displayed. Tooltips are callouts that pop… Read More: Configure tooltips in Maplytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM »

Configure Entity Map in Maplytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

To enable entities for use with Maplytics you need to configure the entity to provide the information required for the entity records to be plotted on the map. Here in this post will see steps to set up entity map for OOB or custom entities Maplytics™ ships along with the Entity Maps already configured for the… Read More: Configure Entity Map in Maplytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM »

Geocode Records in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

In the previous article, we saw how you can configure Maplytics Default values in your MS Dynamics CRM. In this article, we will cover geocoding Dynamics CRM data with Bing Maps. Geocoding refers to getting the latitude and longitude i.e the geographic coordinates of your address. Geo-coordinates help in plotting the addresses accurately on the… Read More: Geocode Records in Microsoft Dynamics CRM »

Scheduling multiple appointments for the same time and same person

Introduction Often you would come across scenarios where you would want to schedule more than one appointment for a user for the same time. In Microsoft Dynamics CRM, if you try to do this most often you would come across the following warning. Being a warning you can always click on continue and go ahead… Read More: Scheduling multiple appointments for the same time and same person »

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: Identify the trigger for an On-load event for Sub-grid in… »