Change the URL of Dynamics CRM provisioned under Office 365

One can now change the URL of Dynamics CRM provisioned under Office 365. This can be done from the login portal under “Admin” section where “manage” option was not previously available. As shown in the screen below, under Microsoft Dynamics → Click on Manage & a new window will open. Here you can change your… Read More: Change the URL of Dynamics CRM provisioned under Office 365 »

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: Aggregate and Grouping functions using LINQ in CRM »

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: Issue regarding service activities resolved in UR 12 »

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: Use ExecuteMultipleRequest for performance improvement in bulk data load and… »

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: Supported ways of accessing URL addressable Forms/Reports Scripts. »

Custom Workflow Activities for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

With Polaris it is now possible to register Custom workflow assembly for CRM Online as well. In continuation of our earlier series here where we provided the steps to use the Developer Kit, we have now added the steps to create Workflow activities for CRM Online using the new version of the developer toolkit that… Read More: Custom Workflow Activities for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online »

Add mapping for custom attribute of Order product to Invoice product

To map custom attributes of Opportunity Product to Quote Product, Quote product to Order Product and Order product to Invoice product CRM does not provide direct access to the “Mapping” page. To get the mapping page, you need to follow below steps. Below are the steps to set the mapping of Order product and Invoice… Read More: Add mapping for custom attribute of Order product to Invoice… »

Display more than 2000 characters in SSRS report

We would like to share one of our experiences with SSRS reports. One of the reports we were building required displaying of notes that could hold more than 2000 characters.     Including a text box worked fine for most of the records but we observed that the ones that had more than 2000 characters… Read More: Display more than 2000 characters in SSRS report »