Introduction: Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, the new feature of building and deploying a standard business process flow has become important to organizations. The prime objective was to make CRM users capable to visualize more than one process. Regardless of the nature of the record, building of process flows help towards understanding… Read More »
In CRM 2016, Microsoft Introduced a new concept called “Web API” (OData v4) to perform CRUD operations as well as other special messages supported in Dynamics CRM. Stepping towards the new enhancement OData v2 is deprecated from the CRM 2016. Though WEB API too requires the object to be sent in JSON form, it differs… Read More »
The re-imagined Tablet and mobile client for Dynamics CRM had been a great step forward in BYOD philosophy of Microsoft. However these clients were locked for any kind of customizations directly on the client app. With the latest updates in Dynamics CRM 2016, it is now possible to choose the layout/sections that you would like… Read More »
The Web API which is introduced in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 enhances the experience while developing through different programming languages, devices and platforms. It implements the OData, version 4.0, an OASIS standard which is used to build as well as to consume Restful APIs over rich data sources. There are predefined functions introduced in the… Read More »
The Word Template feature is introduced in the MS Dynamics CRM 2016. It is useful to create templates for enabling you to generate documents in a standardised format. 3 ways in which a word template can be created: 1. Navigate to Settings -> Templates -> Document Templates -> New -> Select Word Template and entity. This… Read More »
The first thing we generally do whenever a new Dynamics CRM version is released, is to check its features, trial and training materials available. Similarly for us a Business Consultant (Developer by heart!) we start with upgrading our Dynamics CRM Solutions but our first focus always remains to get our clients on this new release,… Read More »
Introduction In our earlier blog we looked into the enhancements made to the way solutions can be created in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016. Now moving forward we will look at a common scenario of sending out Patches for your solution. Often it happens that you may need to update a few components of your managed solution… Read More »
Introduction The only supported way of transferring customizations from one CRM organization to another has been through Solutions. The concept of Solution when first released in CRM 2011 was a breakthrough considering before then there was no concept of IP protection. With Solution Management came the concept of Managed and Unmanaged Solutions. Managed a way… Read More »
Taking forward our series on using WEB API in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, we will now touch upon a feature that was not available in ODATA v2 of the earlier versions. ODATA v2 only provided support for CRUD operations. But Dynamics CRM has some special messages/functions for special operations that are beyond the basic CRUD… Read More »
Introduction: With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, Web API that was in Preview for CRM 2015 is now GA. Web API is really OData V4 which is the later version of OData V2 that was implemented in earlier versions of CRM until CRM 2015. With CRM 2016, OData V2 is deprecated, this means that though the… Read More »