How to integrate SharePoint online with CRM Online – Part 2 -> Integration of CRM and SharePoint online

This is the second part of the blog post following this post. This post focuses on configuring the SharePoint site within CRM online 2011, integrating the both, uploading documents from with CRM to the SharePoint respective folder. Following are the steps for the same: 1. To Configure SharePoint, first you need to download List Component… Read More »

Looking for more real estate on Dynamics CRM page

This articles shows various ways in which you can increase the space on Microsoft Dynamics CRM home page.  Hide the Get Started Pane from the home page We always see Get started pane above each view as shown below. If user wishes to disable/hide this pane by default then it can be done, follow below… Read More »

Show different Header/Footer on different pages of SSRS report

Sometimes, there are requirements to show different Header/ Footer on different pages of the report. Like say, on the first page, header/ footer of report should be some text and on the second page it should be some different text. Please refer below screenshots. First Page Footer Second Page Footer This can be achieved using the… Read More »

Aggregate and Grouping functions using LINQ in CRM

As you know, QueryExpression are built as an Object Model. They support all the features of FetchXML except for grouping & aggregates. FetchXML supports all the features of QueryExpression including grouping & aggregates. Queries here are built as XML statements. LINQ queries are built using standard language similar to SQL, but internally it uses QueryExpression… Read More »

Issue regarding service activities resolved in UR 12

A while ago, we had requirement of sending an email to the users to whom service activity is scheduled. We had created a workflow which would send an email to the resources whenever they have be scheduled in for a service activity. The workflow was supposed to be triggered on create of service activity and… Read More »

Use ExecuteMultipleRequest for performance improvement in bulk data load and other operations

 A new request called ExecuteMultipleRequest has been added to the Update rollup 12 for the Bulk Data Load. Using this request, multiple request can be executed with the single server call. The main advantage of this request is that it will definitely improve the performance since in one round trip to the server, it actually… Read More »

Supported ways of accessing URL addressable Forms/Reports Scripts.

While using CRM there may be conditions in which user wants to open forms and reports programmatically. For this we can write the scripts which will open the forms and reports. Open CRM forms using script: The form can be open using openEntityForm(); method.           Syntax :  Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm(name,id,parameter);   Parameters :   Ø  name: (Required… Read More »