Lets re-visit 5 of our most popular blogs last quarter. The ones you have liked, visited, shared and re-tweeted the most. Hope these posts are helping you to explore features of Dynamics CRM in your next assignment: 1. Custom Actions in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1: Back in 2013 Microsoft introduced the concept of “Custom… Read More »
Introduction In one of our earlier posts found here we had explained how the new date/time behaviour can be used to record date/times in the format that you require, instead of having it store the values in UTC all the time. So you can now go and modify the behaviour of an existing date/time field… Read More »
Introduction: Every CRM update comes with a lot of goodies for both the developers and the end users, so Dynamics CRM 2015 SP1 was not different. One of such feature is opening a record in a new window. While most of you`ll think, what`s so great in this, we have been doing this since CRM… Read More »
Introduction: There are multiple ways provided in Dynamics CRM SDK to query and read data like Using ODATA Using FetchXML Using Query object ODATA has a limitation where it can return only 50 records at a time. You can ofcourse query more than that but it would be in batches of 50 records at a… Read More »
Introduction: In our recent blog post about calculated fields we have covered about calculated fields support extended for Date/Time data types in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1. You can read this blog here. In this blog we will focus on accessing related entities fields in calculated fields formulas. In Calculated fields, you can define… Read More »
Introduction: Calculated fields was first introduced in Dynamics CRM 2015 and it further improved upon the ability to provide codeless solutions to power users to configure. You can learn more about its features from our earlier blog here. It provided support for most CRM data types however the calculations and formulae supported for Date/Time fields… Read More »
Introduction Hierarchies were introduced in Dynamics CRM 2015. Hierarchy provided a way for visualizing relation between records and identify where the records reside in parent child relationship. As in example below shows where “Test Account02” situated in hierarchy tree. SDK Support To support the ability to retrieve records based on Hierarchy, the SDK was enhanced… Read More »
Introduction: Export to Excel has been a feature that has been in Dynamics CRM since its initial release. Though it did the job, there were some annoying pop-up’s and probably a few clicks that could well be avoided. With the Online Update 1, the Export to Excel experience is set to change for the better.… Read More »
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 »
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 »