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 …
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Error after applying Update Rollup 12/13
I haven’t updated my VM to latest updates for a long time and I decided to do that today. After Rollup was installed, I saw message that said Rollup was not applied to one or several organizations. I ignored that message and tried to log into CRM. I got following error:
MS CRM 2011: Add new Deployment Administrator through SQL
Here is a short script that has to be executed against MSCRM_Config db to add a new deployment administrator: Declare @DomainName Varchar(Max) Set @DomainName = ‘Put new deployment admin login here’–i.e. ‘ContosoAdministrator’ Declare @Id uniqueidentifier Select @Id = Id From mscrm_config..SystemUser Where Name = @DomainName if (@Id is null) Begin Set @Id = NEWID() INSERT …
MS CRM 2011: Open new activity form with ‘Regarding’ field prefilled
I had a task today to open a new task form with the Regarding field prefilled. Based on the SDK description, I tried to use following code to accomplish my task: var params = { regardingobjectid: referenced record id, regardingobjectidtype: referenced record type name, regardingobjectidname: referenced record display name }; Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm(“task”, null, params); Unfortunately, this …
MS CRM 2011: Extended handling of Save events in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
About 1.5 ago I wrote post which describes how to work with additional parameters during save of form. I decided to go through all available standard forms and create extended list of available parameters.
MS CRM 2011: Bulk refresh of user details from AD
When you create user in CRM all the available information is populated from AD into CRM user form. But in case information was changed in AD (email box, phone e.t.c.) – information will remain unchanged till the moment you will open form of user and change it. In case a lot of information was changed …
Extended handling of save event in forms with close dialog (like opportunitites)
All developers who developed JavaScripts for CRM read this article. But there is no info about getting data from fields of “Close dialogue” (like opportunity close). I’ve made a little research on this theme and here is the result: