Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2013

Queue Enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM ‘LEO’ release – Part 1

In Dynamics CRM 2013 ‘LEO’ release Queues are further enhanced to now support Public and Private Queues. Through this blog post we will review the enhanced feature of Queue in general. Introduction of Private Queue would help user’s focus on their cases and resolve at better rate. Only those users who are members of a… Read More »

Routing Rules to Automate Case Routing in Dynamics CRM 2013

In the earlier versions of Dynamics CRM we had the option of setting routing through the entity settings shown below: The entity could only be routed to default queue of the owner of the record when record is created or assigned. For any other conditional routing, custom development was the way to go. Now with… Read More »

Case Enhancements in Dynamics CRM 2013 ‘LEO’ release

Finally, the most awaited Spring ‘14/SP1 update has been rolled out. It has brought along with it many new features and changes. The majority of the changes were observed in the Service Module. Here we talk about the 2 new features introduced in Cases: 1. Parent-Child Case 2. Merge Case Parent-Child Case: This could be… Read More »

Spring Release – Dynamics CRM 2013 SP1 Codenamed ‘Leo’ Out Now!

Introduction: The much talked about Spring Release is now slowly being released across various geo for CRM Online. Let us take a look at what this release has to offer. Leo updates are optional, i.e. after your CRM program and db has been upgraded to version 6.1.x you are now on the latest CRM release.… Read More »

Schema Validation error while importing Solution

  Recently we came across with the issue while importing a solution from our dev environment to another test environment. So we thought of sharing this with everyone so that others do not face the same problem.   Issue: While importing a solution we received “Schema Validation Failed” and it said “The ‘label’ attribute is… Read More »

Asynchronous Solution Import

Introduction: Often you must have noticed that importing solution often slows down CRM to the extent that it is almost unusable for the period during which the Import action is being processed. To improve performance, a new request has been introduced in CRM 2013 which supports to importing solutions asynchronously. This is however available only… Read More »

Sub-grid Add Action Behavior in Dynamics CRM

Introduction: Since the new refresh forms, we now see sub grids added on the form by default instead of the left navigation links to see the related records. The + (add) button on the sub-grid however appears to work differently for the Case Sub-grid and the Contacts grid on the Account form. So when do… Read More »

Use SQL Tracing to find the SQL query generated for Dynamics CRM Platform Operations for CRM On-Premise

Dynamics CRM works largely on FetchXML queries. FetchXML is a proprietary query language for Dynamics CRM. For developers coming from SQL background, they would really want to find the SQL query that the FetchXML translates into. While one way is to explain the FetchXML syntax, it might help to also get the SQL statement that… Read More »

How to show Language specific error messages using Business Rules/PBL

Introduction If you have more than one language support in your CRM organization, then you may require localizing all error messages that you have set in PBL per the languages installed. The message that you type in the PBL designer is set to be the message shown in the CRM base language. To show the… Read More »