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Continue reading →: Dynamics 365: Simple Business Rules for Date validation
With the change in UI for Business Rules in Dynamics 365, which was supposed to be a simpler UI and visually appealing seems to lag intuitiveness as it takes couple to tries to understand how to work with it. In given example I am having an entity for Absence Calendar…
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Continue reading →: New in Dynamics 365: Web API Enhancements
With Dynamics 365 Microsoft has provided certain enhancements with Dynamics CRM Web API. It provides you much more flexibility while working with Entity Metadata, Global option sets and relationship definition to retrieve specific records rather than just complete list. Reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt607833.aspx To navigate to Web API reference you can navigate…
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Continue reading →: New in Dynamics 365: Areas of Interest for Developers
With the avalanche of new featured with Dynamics 365 there are various new featured which we have been looking into. With many features which are easily visible at UI there are various internal plumbing in Dynamics 365 which will help in making the whole development experience smoother. Few of the…
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Continue reading →: New in Dynamics 365: Editable Grid Properties
Few questions I had while thinking about Editable Grid: Where can I have editable grid? The editable grid control is supported in the homepage grid, form grids and subgrids on the web client, and in dashboards and form grids on the mobile clients. Once editable grid is enabled, Are…
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Continue reading →: New in Dynamics 365: Editable Grid
It’s a long awaited feature is available in Dynamics 365 which was not available in previous versions and customers constantly requested for it. To enable Editable grid Navigate to the Settings -> Customizations -> Customize the System Expand Entities -> Select the Entity you want to enable Editable Grid…
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Continue reading →: Error while connecting to plugin registration tool from SDK 2016
Hi, While connecting to Dynamics CRM Online organization from latest SDK wee were getting Format Exception (“Input string was not in correct format”). Plugin registration tool was able to successfully connect and list the Organization to select from but after that it failed. Resolution: Above issue was due…
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Continue reading →: SQL Reporting Services SRS RP HTTP 500 Error When Browsing Reports Site
While trying to open the Report Manager site (http://localhost/reports) we were getting http 500 error. While looking into the logs the exception thrown was ERROR: System.Web.HttpException: Error executing child request for Error.aspx. —> System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type ‘System.Web.HttpUnhandledException’ was thrown. —> System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts on CRM Online 2015 Update 1 Official Pre-release Documentation
CRM Online 2015 Update 1 Official Pre-release Tracking Email Activities in an Exchange Folder What can be done? · We can link up an Exchange folder to CRM Account, Opportunity etc records and any email dragged to that folder is auto tracked and linked in CRM How to do it?…
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Continue reading →: MVC HTMLHelper Error
While starting with MVC one of the most basic error encountered is the one where using reference is missed for HTMLHelper class. Below is the example of typical error. System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper has no applicable method named ‘TextBox’ but appears to have an extension method by that name. Extension methods cannot be…
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Continue reading →: Attribute *** is a String, but a Memo type was specified.
Another error of the Day: “Attribute *** is a String, but a Memo type was specified.” While importing solution we got given error. This error signifies that the data type of Attribute mentioned on the given entity has been changed and CRM does not permit that. Only solution for this…