Category Archives: Dynamics CRM

Programmatically create folders and upload files in SharePoint Server 2013 through Plug-in/Workflow

Introduction: Dynamics CRM has native integration with Sharepoint so that Sharepoint can be used as the document management tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The Document management integration however is restricted to associating Dynamics CRM Records to Sharepoint folders and displaying them from within Dynamics CRM. All files need to be uploaded manually by the user… Read More »

Full-Text Search in SharePoint files from Dynamics CRM

Introduction In order to utilize the rich document management features of SharePoint and use it as the file storage platform, Dynamics 365 CRM has provided native integration to SharePoint. SharePoint Integration Once Document Management is enabled for an entity in CRM, you can see the following tab available in the Dynamics CRM entity forms. Through this… Read More »

Tip while migrating Products to Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Introduction Most CRM Implementations involve data migration from legacy system. This article is a tip for smooth migration of Product data to Dynamics CRM. Product Record mandatory fields As you know that the when we create the product in CRM, we select the Unit Group and the Default Unit on Product. Unit group is a… Read More »

Make Cross Domain Web Service Request through Client Side Scripting in Dynamics CRM

To perform CRUD operations with CRM data at client side we use ODATA and SOAP services of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. We use XMLHttpRequest to send request to these services to get the response. Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides below WCF services that we used to manipulate CRM data, Organization Data Service – Protocol:  OData (REST) http://<server>/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/… Read More »

Using LookupSet in SSRS reports to show activity parties related to an activity in Dynamics CRM

There are so many features of SSRS reports which are very less used but they can play a vital role in our report performance and productivity. One such feature of SSRS reports is LookupSet. SSRS Definition:  As per SSRS documentation a LookupSet may be defined as: Use LookupSet to retrieve a set of values from… Read More »

Dynamics CRM 2016 it is!

Well, the news is finally out. The much awaited version that was to be released in fall timeframe this year would be christened “Dynamics CRM 2016” (Read everything about 2016 here) This version as announced, would be an On-Prem as well as Online release. The On-Prem customers would get the much awaited features released as… Read More »

Passing special characters For Odata request using JavaScript in Dynamics CRM 2015

To retrieve records from Dynamics CRM using JavaScript one of the popular options is using CRM Odata services using REST endpoint. There are many situations occurs when we need to retrieve records from CRM by name using REST retrieve multiple request. For example in below script we are retrieving products by product name. While passing… Read More »

Lock/Unlock Composite fields using Java Script in Dynamics CRM

Traditionally we use the following way to lock or unlock the fields programmatically, Xrm.Page.getControl(fieldname).setDisabled(true/false); But there could be some cases where we would need to lock/unlock the composite fields programmatically. For example, consider the following scenario, Suppose that we are populating the Bill To address on Quote as the address of the customer selected on… Read More »