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 »
Introduction: There may be times when you want to identify the fields that have been modified by the user in the current update. While one way and the most common way has been to create a Plugin, the plugin only receives data of the fields that have been modified in the current update. If you… Read More »
Introduction Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2016 Update and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 (on-premises) introduced new concept called The Web API. It can be used across a wide variety of programming languages, platforms, and devices. The Web API implements the OData (Open Data Protocol), version 4.0, an OASIS standard for building and consuming Restful APIs. Basically… Read More »
Introduction: On Dec 1st Microsoft released another great version of Dynamics CRM – CRM 2016 that has loads of new features and not to forget developer enhancements too. One of the developer enhancements added to Dynamics CRM 2016 is “Auto Complete” which allows us to provide auto complete feature for the single line text fields.… Read More »
We were upgrading Dynamics CRM 2011 On-Premises to CRM 2013 On-Premises. As every CRM developer would be aware that CRM upgrades are never a smooth sailing ride. We stumbled upon an error while importing organization in Deployment Manager. The error we came across was, Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint ‘UQ_LocalizedLabelCheck’. Cannot insert duplicate key in… Read More »
Introduction: We developed a custom SSRS report that is working just fine on the dev environment, which is a single box with CRM and SQL installed on the same machine. But when it was moved to production where CRM is installed on a separate box than the SQL server, it would not work and simple… Read More »
Introduction Often you would come across scenarios where you would want to schedule more than one appointment for a user for the same time. In Microsoft Dynamics CRM, if you try to do this most often you would come across the following warning. Being a warning you can always click on continue and go ahead… Read More »
Introduction: With CRM 2015 SP1, the Client API was extended to allow attaching events to sub-grid to manage the sub-grid data/operations. The OnLoad event however executes on all of the following operations Load of parent form. Save of parent form. Add a new record in sub-grid Remove a record from sub-grid Navigating to prev/next page… Read More »