Dynamics CRM 2011 now provides the ability to perform data operations on CRM entities using JSON and ODATA service. Here we have tried to explain the various clauses of JSON that is supported by CRM ODATA and how this service can be used in Silverlight as well as in Scripts. Note not all standard ODATA… Read More »
In CRM 2011, we have found the new feature for the lookup type fields that you have the ability to see the most recently used items for that lookup while creating the records for entity.Also you can disable this feature as well by default it is enable for all lookup types fields. If you like… Read More »
In CRM2011 it is now possible to get the Total count of records returned by a query using Fetch XML. Using Query expression: You can set the ReturnTotalRecordCount property to True. Using FetchXml: You can set the same property as shown below. This can be helpful to show Record 1 of kind of status labels.… Read More »
Sometimes you have requirement to open the particular type of new record with some default values already filled. This can be achieved by passing the field values to the query string. To open the new record form https:///main.aspx?etn=&pagetype=entityrecord Pass field values as query string parameters http:///main.aspx?etn=&pagetype=entityrecord&extraqs== If you need to pass the multiple field values… Read More »
In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 FetchXML includes grouping and aggregation features which let us to use aggregate functions like sum, count etc. Using Group by we can calculate sum, avg, min, max, count. But, Group by clause is not supported through LINQ in CRM. You can only specify one aggregate attribute in a query and you cannot… Read More »
In the CRM 2011 online if you want to create your custom SSRS report then here is the trouble, you cannot create the report directly using the SQL Queries as you do not have access to SQL Server. For this reason MS has provided BIDS tool for Dynamics CRM 2011. You can download this tool… Read More »
With CRM 2011, you now have the concept of including resources within CRM that can they be used to display on CRM forms in IFRAMES and buttons and other customizable objects in CRM. A web resource in CRM can be any of the following Here we take an example of adding a custom html page… Read More »
We recently came across a request for data correction where the customer had lost some of their address data. No addresses were displayed on the Account form. One would think all that was corrupt was the address and having them type in the address on the form should do the trick. But no, with the… Read More »
You will notice that if you register a plugin on the Create or Update event of an appointment in the Parent Pipeline, the plugins do not fire. When you create an appointment in CRM it is set to the status of “Scheduled” implying an appointment has been scheduled. To trap create and update of Appointment… Read More »
While there can be many other reasons for this, recently we came across a situation where a simple workflow assembly designed by us could not be used in a Workflow. If we added the reference to this workflow assembly in the Workflow, it wouldn’t publish. We would receive the following message “An error occured when… Read More »