Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2016

How to Open Quick Create form in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1

You might be aware of how to open CRM entity form using javascript function that was introduced in Dynamics CRM 2013 i.e. Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm() If you are not then you can refer our blog about this feature here. We use openEntityForm function to open blank entity form or entity form with pre populated values. In CRM… Read More »

One Note Integration with Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1

Introduction: In today’s world there would be very few who perhaps still use notepad or like application for taking notes. Majority use application like OneNote or EverNote to manage their notes. These application allow recording of rich data like pictures, videos etc within the application for later consumption. Recording notes traditionally in CRM has been… Read More »

Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1 – API support for Transaction

Introduction: As a developer, you always want to perform any database operation in a Transaction so that you have the choice of rollback in case an operation fails. There are many examples where you want either all of your API instructions to succeed or all of them to rollback. If there is only a partial… Read More »

Handling Date/Time fields in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1

Introduction Managing Date/Time fields in Dynamics CRM has not been easy especially when time zone come into picture and yet it is very critical to the application. Dynamics CRM being a global application was designed to support multiple timezones and the architecture design had a very noble thought behind it – “No matter which timezone… Read More »

Custom Actions in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1

Recap: Back in 2013, when Microsoft introduced the concept of “Custom Actions”, we had explained this feature in this blog. With the latest update released for CRM Online versioned 7.1, this feature has further been extended. As a quick recap, Actions in processes are a way to create custom messages in CRM for an entity,… Read More »

Create or Update through a single request – Upsert in Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1

Background: Traditionally, insert and update have always been separate requests in Dynamics CRM. The logic to identify whether a record has to be created or updated was always something the developers had to handle themselves. Once you have identified the action to perform, call the appropriate message. The API enhancements introduced in Dynamics CRM 2015… Read More »

More ways to search a record in Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1 – Alternate Keys

  Prior to Microsoft Dynamic CRM 2015 Update 1 the only way to identify the records in CRM was the record guid. Now with the introduction of the Alternate Keys in Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1 we can use alternate keys to uniquely identify a record in CRM in place of the primary key (GUID).… Read More »