We got the first hint of the much awaited data type Image with the introduction of activity feeds where we were allowed to provide a profile image for a user. Though the Activity Feeds had it, it was still not available for other entities OOB or custom. In CRM 2013, the Dynamics CRM Product team… Read More »
Until CRM 4 there were Workflows that could be used for asynchronous processing of business logic, generally used for setting up automated actions and defining sales process in Dynamics CRM. Since CRM 2011, the workflows became a category under Processes and there was another category Dialogs introduced. Dialogs provided for execution of Dialog scripts to… Read More »
The December 2012 Update of Microsoft Dynamic CRM Online introduced Business Process Flow for the OOB Lead, Opportunity and Case entities. With CRM 2013 Microsoft has extended this feature further and allowed creating of business process flows for any entity including custom entities. Enabling Business Process Flow for an entity: The first step to… Read More »
CRM vNext announced appears to be round the corner. Code-named “Orion” the next release of Dynamics CRM is also the next major version of CRM to be called CRM 2013. Update/Upgrade Options: For the On-Premise Customers it would be an “Upgrade” from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013 similar to CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011. We… Read More »
Many a times we come across situations where we accidentally, delete a particular record and wish to recover that record back in CRM. This is possible only if you have “Auditing” enabled for that respective entity. So from the audit history we can re-create deleted records in CRM. Let us take an example, supposing some… Read More »
In Dynamics CRM if we want to pass data to a web resource, then we use Xrm.Utility.openWebResourcefunction and pass as second parameter. But in this case we can’t pass Object or Array as parameter. So to solve this problem one can use JSON. Using JSON we can convert Object or Collection of Object (Array) in… Read More »
In Dynamics CRM 2011, if we implement JavaScript for particular form we add script web resource in the Form Libraries list under form customization, if there is any related script which need to be referred, then we need to include that script as well in the Form Libraries. As you can see in the below screen,… Read More »
Now we can check the attribute formats in CRM java script. To do this you just need to use the function “getFormat”. This function returns a string value that represents formatting options for the attribute. You can refer the below code to check the format of different types of attributes. functionGetFormatOfAttributes() { var attributeFormat;… Read More »
While working with the plug-ins or with Custom Workflows Assemblies, we get the Datetime from CRM which doesn’t match with user’s Local DateTime format. As we get the date from the CRM in UTC Format so we can convert it to User’s Local DateTime using LocalTimeFromUtcTimeRequest Request. To get the Current logged in user’s Local… Read More »
We have ChartColorPalette property of charts to set different color palettes. If you do not want to specify custom colors for palette, at that time you can use following specified palettes. The ChartColorPalette represents the palettes to be used for the root Chart object and any Series objects. If no colors are assigned to data… Read More »