Several weeks ago I got a question from my customer – when record is inactive it’s not possible to add associated records from subgrids located on entity form – is it possible to bring back “plus” button to the subgrid even if record is deactivated?
Category: Customization
Microsoft CRM 2011/2013: Colorizing Service Calendar
This is how standard service calendar looks like: Today I was asked by a customer if it is possible to change the colorizing schema of Service Calendar. I started to look for information about it and found the following article – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309501.aspx Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to understand how to do it on my first …
Microsoft CRM 2013: Adding standard Bing Map control to forms of custom entities
In CRM 2013 Microsoft released a really great feature – OOB integration with BingMaps. Unfortunately, the list of entities that support BingMaps control is limited to Account, Contact, Lead, Quote, Order, Invoice, Competitor, and System User. I did a little investigation into how this control is organized and I can confirm that it is possible …
How to turn on Duplicate Detection for client side in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Microsoft decided to remove the Duplicate Detection feature in 2013 version. Why? Not sure. The following article describes how to restore this functionality.
MS CRM 2011: How to override standard dialogs
My client wanted to remove (or hide) “Total Time” and “Billable Time” fields in the Case Close dialog window: Of course, I knew that it is possible to open the file CRM_Installation_Directory\CRM\Web\CS\cases\dlg_closecase.aspx, add several lines of code, and hide fields and labels; but this, the most obvious and easiest way out, had 2 disadvantages: 1. …
MS CRM 2011: Embed context report to left navigation pane
Idea of this blog post is how to embed report to left navigation pane of Crm editing form. I have found this brilliant post which describes how to embed report into IFrame located on Crm editing form and I took this post as basis for current post.