Many a times there had been requirements to format the CRM phone number in the SSRS report in following format. We tried to achieve this by creating 12 text boxes and in each textbox we applied the below logic in the expression. = IIF(Fields!telephone1.Value.toString().Length>=1, GetChar(Fields!telephone1.Value.toString(),1), “”) It works successfully when the length of phone number is equal to… Read More: Phone Formating in SSRS report »
Further to one of our previous blog spot We can write scripts on bulk edit form to check that the entered field value is unique for the selected group of records. If the value is duplicate then the user should get an alert and the bulk edit form should be closed. To achieve this, we… Read More: How to get all the selected records id for the… »
We have noticed this with the Online and IFD environment, that, if you are using “CRM 2011 Outlook Client” and try to open any web resource like html file and Silverlight application (.xap file) or any entity record using window.Open() or Response.Redirect() then you get prompt for user name and password. Window.Open() methods opens the CRM record in the… Read More: Outlook Authentication issue fixed in Rollup 8 »
The Q2 Service Update plans have been revised. As per the road map made available earlier this year, Q2 Service update was all about “CRM Anywhere“. It planned to include Cross Browser availability and Mobility that would let Dynamics CRM be accessible “anywhere” be it any browser or any device. However in the recent Press… Read More: R8 aka Q2 2012 Service Update Plans revised »
One can debug CRM plug ins without connecting to CRM server or without remote debugging. Here are the steps as in how you can use Profiler for debugging plug ins: 1> Connect to CRM using plugin registration tool of March SDK 2012. 2> Click on Install Profiler 3> You will find a… Read More: How to Debug Plugins using Profiler »
OK I am having a real hard time getting reports to work after installing CRM in recent times. This is an attempt to compile all SQL reports related errors and solutions that have worked for community in general. I have not checked each of the solutions but since I am experiencing issues with reports pretty… Read More: Solutions to issues with Reports in Dynamics CRM 2011 »
After installing UR7, there are chances you may not find any changes with respect to the much talked about Read Optimized form. That is because the default setting for RO is switched off and by default all forms are expected to open in Edit mode. You need to make the change at Organization level using… Read More: Read Optimized Form made available through UR7 »
While setting up IFD, we had issues in enabling the claims for CRM 2011. After trying to enable claims for CRM 2011 through Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Deployment Manager when we trid to browse the URL: https://XYZ.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml we were getting one of the following errors: – HTTP 503 Service Unavailable error. – HTTP 404 Not… Read More: IFD Configuration »
When we have to associate the records we normally use AssociateRequest but while associating campaign with campaign related items such as Campaign, Marketing List, Product, or Salesliterature it doesn’t work. For achieving this we have special Message made for Campaign called AddItemCampaignRequest.Below we have provided the code that will associate the Campaign with Campaign Items.… Read More: N:N association »
Well, this was one travel that I had not planned for. But today I am happy that I did not skip it. This was my first MVP summit after being awarded MVP in January this year and it was an enriching experience. I was one of the 41 CRM MVPeeps that were present at the… Read More: Experiences from the MVP Summit! »