We had a requirement to do some calculation and update self record of custom entity. We have created a plug-in and registered it on post operation of update event. The code was reading the post image, updating some fields and updating the same. The plug-in was working fine for single record. But when two records… Read More: Issue with plug-in in CRM 2011 »
Some very exciting features have been announced that would be made available in the Q2 2012 service update. Here we discuss a few of them Cross Browser Support CRM had been restricted till date to be accessible through Internet Explorer only. However, with this release the user would now have the choice of browser. They… Read More: Features to be included in the Q2 2012 service update. »
We are happy to announce the availability for Maplytics for CRM 2011. The new version now supports all 3 CRM deployment models On-Premise, Online as well as IFD.Maplytics is geo-analysis tool that allows you to view your CRM data on a map as well as allow your Sales Rep on the field to plan their schedule with… Read More: Maplytics now available for CRM 2011 »
We were working on the Silverlight REST Editor sample that is available in SDK. We added a hyperlink to that grid that would open the CRM Contact form for the selected contact. This would allow users to check in further details of the contact. The users can also update the fields on the contact form… Read More: Update the Parent Silverlight Grid from the CRM form that… »
CRM 2011 introduced the feature to design more than one form for an entity and assign form to users based on their role (Role Based Form). It has also included a feature where by it would automatically open the form that was last used by the logged in user for that entity. If you would… Read More: Dynamically control Form Navigation »
Generally if you hide a field through script, CRM does not redesign the layout to use up the blank space left from the hiding of a field on the form. This makes it very obvious that there must have been some control that is now not visible to the user. To avoid this you can… Read More: Tip – Hide fields on CRM form without messing up… »
2012 starts with a bang for Team Inogic. We take pride in announcing that one of our Team Members known to you all as Sam is now a Dynamics CRM MVP. Well done!!!
Here are some of the ODATA context properties that would help us during debugging and understanding the behavior of the context when performing various operations.1. DataServiceContext.Entities:Gets a list of all the records currently being tracked by the DataServiceContext. While using OData service, we frequently get the error that context already tracking the record. With the… Read More: ODATA Properties and Methods Explored… »
Synchronous methods to create, update and delete the records for the Account entity through JSON. These methods works synchronously. Create Records: To create the record into the CRM, you need to create an object for that record. After that you need to create the object of the XMLHttpRequest and open this request through “POST” method… Read More: Performing CRUD Operations synchronously in CRM 2011 through JSON »
Common knowledge is that we can make JSON requests through scripts in CRM 2011 to retrieve data from CRM entities. However, the JSON request works asynchronously i.e it does not return the results immediately and the control moves to the next line of code to be executed. It so happened during one of our development… Read More: Read records synchronously using JSON in CRM 2011 »