Every day I come to work, and I open my Visual Studio to develop yet another plugin / javascript / SSIS package / SSRS report.. And, then, an email comes in from a user who does not know how to do “this and that” in Dynamics, and we talk, and we get back to what… Read More »
Rollup fields in Dynamics are great, they are very useful, they are there out of the box, and a lot has been written about them. Although, if you wanted to start somewhere, the page below would give you all the details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn832162.aspx That said, there is a bunch of things you can’t do with the… Read More »
Not sure if you’ve seen my previous post on using WordPress with Dynamics – that was merely a beginner’s attempt to connect WordPress to Dynamics.. however, folks at AlexaCrm (those guys who developed the plugin) did see it, and, apparently, they figured they couldn’t leave it that way In particular, George Doubinski got in touch and… Read More »
Here is what recently came up in the community forums: There is a contract line out of the box entity There is a custom entity that has a lookup to the contract line There is a subgrid for that custom entity on the contract line form So why don’t we see “+” button next to the… Read More »
What is the real difference between Access Teams and Owner Teams in Dynamics? Is it just that selection in the Team Type dropdown? Maybe let’s start the other way around: what’s not different? They are both represented by the same entity We can add users to both types of teams We can share records with… Read More »
Ever since Microsoft has published the “Important Changes Coming..” article that provides a very nice overview of what we should expect in the updated version of Dynamics, I could not stop wondering what does this mean: With all the great reviews of this new release published on the web so far, I’ve never seen anyone asking… Read More »
First of all, why would you need to build a plugin in the XrmToolBox? Isn’t it what the Visual Studio is for? I think the answer is “yes and no”. See, if you are a developer and have all the tools.. you probably don’t need to read this post (other than out of curiosity). But,… Read More »
Code Now plugin for XrmToolBox Strictly speaking, it’s not part of TCS Tools. But, either way.. it’s kind of cool to be able to run C# code directly from XrmToolBox, especially when you need to do something quickly. You can do it with the Code Now plugin right now: Let’s use XrmToolBox to run your C#… Read More »
If you happened to use Xrm.Page.ui.setFormNotification in your javascript customizations, you have probably noticed that it does not support line breaks. Try adding <BR/> tags into those notifications, and you’ll get something ugly.. like this: Apparently, setFormNotification does not really respect all those html tags – instead, it just displays them as regular text. So, how… Read More »
Just fresh from development, a few more tools have been added to the Code Now plugin for XrmToolBox: Code Now can build an exe-file Code Now can build a plugin You can save your code to a file and/or load it from a file And, because it’s CodeNow, you can do it right NOW, without even having to… Read More »