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{Dynamics CRM Error} Error in Microsoft Dynamics CRM email router – Could not verify the version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.The requested organization service could not be activated.

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Recently we started noticing this error in the event log  for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router. After a bit of research, we found that the issue was occurring because from the authentication providers, of Microsoft Dynamics CRM website, the Negotiate provider was removed. So we had to add the Negotiate provider back. The following are …

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Displaying On Demand Workflows in sorted order in Dynamics CRM 2013

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Recently we had a requirement where we needed to display a specific set of on demand workflows in a specific order for a particular entity. Well is this possible? In a supported way? The answer is No. However if your customer is hell bent on this, you can try the below unsupported approach. This solution …

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{Dynamics CRM Fix} Idiosyncrasies while dealing with Business Process flows in CRM 2013/ 2015.

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Looking at the title of the topic, you must be thinking that I am going to discuss any bug in Business process flows. Well not exactly. However there are some situations where using business process flows can lead to confusing errors. Lets see such an example. Let’s say you have a requirement where progression from …

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Reload an entity form in Dynamics CRM 2013/ 2015

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From CRM 2013 onwards, many a times we need to reload an entity form since from CRM 2013 after saving of the record, the entire page does not refresh. And frequently to do this, I have come across use of window.location.reload method to do the same. Off course there are ways to asynchronously update the …

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Dynamics Record URL does not contain Organization Name in CRM 2013 SP1 – Will be fixed in UR2 of 2013 SP1

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My client is on Dynamics CRM 2013 SP1 UR1 and they are facing this problem for their multi-org on-premise deployment. They have a pretty simple workflow on the account entity where they are sending an e-mail and in the e-mail body they are inserting a hyperlink to the account record. The problem is that when …

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{Dynamics CRM 2013} Clear out field value using Dynamics CRM 2013 Business Rules? Yes you can!

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Business rules are great. Aren’t they? But how many implementations I have seen where customers initially were so much excited about no code development using business rules and finally they found that very simple stuffs cannot be achieved using Business Rules and finally they end up disappointed. I faced a very similar situation recently. I …

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{Dynamics CRM} Are Business Rules created as process records in CRM?

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First all, let me give an answer to title of the post. Yes it is! For people who already know this, this is as far as you need to read this post :). However is my day-day project implementations, I come across many technical consultants who are not aware of the underlying implementation of Business …

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{Business Process flow Security} – Security consideration while targeting business process flows and switching processes for security roles.

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Business process flows are everywhere these days. Every project I come across have business process flows implemented and why not? A great feature indeed. However came across this  very interesting question that one of my client administrators came up with regarding the security aspect of Business Process flows. The following describes the set-up for client …

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{dynamics crm 2013 SP1} What happens internally when dynamics CRM 2013 SP1 is installed.

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How to make sure that deactivated entity does never show up to the user in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

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This interesting issue came up for one of our customers when we upgraded their environment from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013. After upgrade they decided to go ahead with 2013 layout of the forms. Hence we de-activated the Information forms that came from 2011 and made sure that end-users use the CRM 2013 forms. For …

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Using Quick View form in CRM 2013 to show filtered set of related records.

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Recently we had a requirement in our project where on the opportunity form, when the sales manager selects the account, the system should show the list of activities related to the account. The requirement looked very interesting and the first thing that came to our mind is to utilize the Quick View form to achieve …

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The type Microsoft.Crm.Web.Reporting.CrmReportServerConnection, Microsoft.Crm.Application.Pages, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 does not implement IReportServerConnection or could not be found

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We encountered this error recently when we upgraded from CRM 2013 to CRM 2015. We had our plugin where we used to execute a custom SSRS report and get the byte content of the report and create an attachment for an entity. For this we had a reference to the Microsoft.ReportView.WebForms dll v 10.0 The …

The type Microsoft.Crm.Web.Reporting.CrmReportServerConnection, Microsoft.Crm.Application.Pages, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 does not implement IReportServerConnection or could not be found Read More »

Open Advanced Find from Anywhere in Dynamics CRM 2013

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Our customer recently upgraded from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013 and one of the very first concerns that the customer faced is they were missing advanced find from the record view. Every time they wanted to open advanced find, they had to go back to the Grid View of the records and open advanced find. …

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{Dynamics CRM Plugins Impersonation} Identify which for your plugins are running under impersonation

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Recently we upgraded one customer from their CRM 2011 to CRM 2013 environment. During the process of upgrade and new features implementation, we were developing in separate environment while the existing customer system was still going on. Just before going live with the upgrade, our client informed us that there had been considerable number of …

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Understanding how SLA’s work in CRM 2013. Effects of change in SLA details or deactivation of SLA on a case.

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In think by this time, many of you must already have used the SLA feature that came with CRM 2013 SP1. Hence i am not going to explain here what that feature is and how can we use it for our implementations. Rather I would like to share my answers to the common questions that …

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Dynamics CRM 2013 – Client API’s to interact with Business Process Flows

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While implementing Business Process flows for our customers, how I wished for if Microsoft had provided Client API’s to deal with the Business Process Stages. How easily I could have implemented some of the requirements that customers asked me regarding Business Process flows. I am sure that many of you have wished if we could …

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CRM 2013 SP1 Duplicate Detection Bug – Really a bug or expected framework behavior?

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As many of us know, with CRM 2013 SP1, duplicate detection is back. Personally I liked it a lot because you can avoid potential duplicates just through configuration without writing plugins and also you get an option to continue with the duplicate record or to perform actions like merge on the duplicate records, So came …

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Workflow Enhancements in CRM 2013 SP1

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With CRM 2013 SP1 release, everybody is talking a lot regarding the new service module enhancements like Case Hierarchies, Entitlements, SLA’s to name a few. Along with these fantastic features also came some new improvements in the workflow designer which can help a lot developing workflows. That is the Workflow Conditions where we can now …

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Configure Quick create form to launch directly from sub-grid when New button click instead of the lookup view – CRM 2013

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While delivering trainings in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, frequently  i keep getting the question – “When Quick create has been enabled for an entity and when the ‘+’ sign of the entity sub-grid is clicked, sometimes CRM throws a lookup and sometimes it opens directly the Quick Create form”. What causes this behavior?The answer is simple. …

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CRM 2013 WORKFLOW BUG – This workflow cannot be created, updated or published because it was created outside the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web application

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Recently in my project, I encountered this error while importing one of the workflows from DEV. to QA. Environment When we tried to publish the workflow in the QA environment we got the following error. This workflow cannot be created, updated or published because it was created outside the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web application. Your …

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Disable SSL check for enabling Data Encryption in CRM 2013

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By now many of you might have already worked with Data encryption feature in CRM 2013. In case you are not aware of this new feature, I suggest you go through the following link. https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crminogic/archive/2014/03/27/data-encryption-in-crm-2013.aspx Isn’t it really simple to just go to Settings->Data Management  and enable Data Encryption with the key of your choice. …

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Get PrivUserGroup specific to your CRM Organization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Hi, recently in my project, I had a requirement to enable Data encryption feature that is new to CRM 2013. While enabling and proving the key, we got an error – “The user account for enabling Data Encryption should be a member of the PrivUserGroup in active directory. We had to contact our AD support …

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Customization changes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM not working with latest version of Chrome

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Cross browser support in Microsoft Dynamics CRM was a great feature. Wonderful isn’t it that you can open most of the browser(s) (check for the supported list in MSDN) and your CRM would continue to work seamlessly. And in recent months, I find lot of users have shifted to Chrome while they browse CRM. But …

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How to get name of the Logged in user in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

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In Microsoft CRM 2011, many a times we used had to get the name of the logged in user using client side script. Xrm.Page.context.getUserId() used to give us the guid of the user. But alas as simple as it may sound, getting the user name meant to query the user entity with the guid and …

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{Error} Public assembly must have public key token – Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Hi, Faced this error very frequently during my early days with MSCRM. With all my enthusiasm, I would build a plugin and register it in my CRM. Oops! The plugin registration tool throws me an error. Once of the reason why this error is being thrown is probably because you have forgot to sign the plugin …

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{Tool} – Configure field level security for security roles in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

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Field level security introduced in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is simply a WOW feature to me. I just implemented it in so many projects with success and finally one fine day i had one customer who wanted to implement this based on the security roles. Well that’s the beauty of consulting isn’t it. We come …

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Left Join with Not-in operator in FetchXml in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

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Just the other day, I was discussing with one of my colleagues about his experience of building fetch xml reports for one online implementations and we stumbled upon the topic where he needed to show the list of accounts with no cases associated to it. With SSRS reports it’s just a simple query. However for …

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Switch Forms in Microsoft Dynamics CRM depending on Business Logic

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Recently in our project, we had a requirement where the customer wanted to show different forms of the same entity depending on some business logic. Off-course we could design the form with multiple sections with appropriate fields and show/ hide the sections based on business logic. However if the above approach does not suit you, …

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{Tips &Tricks} Add borders to fields on form in Dynamics CRM 2013

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We upgraded recently to Dynamics CRM 2013 and after upgrade one of the feedbacks that came from our customer was that when the form loads for this first time, the fields are clearly not distinguishable. Off course they were talking about the new feature in Dynamics CRM 2013 where the controls are highlighted on the …

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Dashboard Chart Exporter in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013.

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Ever faced the requirement where your customer has asked to export the charts in your CRM Dashboard so that they could embed them in their PPTs. Off-course you can ask your customer to enlarge your charts and then take a clip of the chart and save it as file. I have developed a tool that …

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{Scenarios} – Registering plugins when a user is added to Team in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

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Well if you are reading this topic and thinking that there is already a whole lot of information available on how to register a plugin when a user is added to a team, then why this post again. Yes you are right. But I could see there is some incomplete information in many of the …

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Exploring Microsoft Dynamics CRM system Js files

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For a long time doing this, however thought of sharing this to all you guys. CRM does a lot of whole lot of functionalities using these javascript files. When do we really need to explore these system files functions. Well as a CRM consultant, frequently i have faced scenarios where the customer is very adamant …

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Close Quick Create Form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013.

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Recently in my project, I came across a requirement where the customer would launch the quick create form and when he clicks on the Save button, our CRM system would perform complex business functions and show a pop-up to the user with a list of available options. If the user selects one of the options …

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View Personal Views created by other users in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Frequently in our project, we receive issues from our users complaining that they have created a personal view for their chart. However the chart is not showing any data. The only option we have left then is a screen sharing session with the user to check the filters of his/ her personal views or to …

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Understanding currency field in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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The currency field of CRM is something that we use in almost every project. However I find that there is always some confusion related to this currency field because of the way CRM handles it. Let us see exactly what happens when you create a currency field in CRM. I have a custom entity called …

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Logging in CRM entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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The tool is available for download at the codeplex site: https://enterpriselogger.codeplex.com/. The entire documentation of the tool and how to use it can be found in the documentation tab in the codeplex site. In case you want to keep reading this blog, I suggest you go back to the link:  https://debajmecrm.com/enterprise-logger-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm/ and gather an idea …

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Logging in custom database in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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The tool is available for download at the codeplex site: https://enterpriselogger.codeplex.com/. The entire documentation of the tool and how to use it can be found in the documentation tab in the codeplex site. In case you want to keep reading this blog, I suggest you go back to the link:  https://debajmecrm.com/enterprise-logger-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm/ and gather an idea …

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Logging in EventViewer in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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The tool is available for download at the codeplex site: https://enterpriselogger.codeplex.com/. The entire documentation of the tool and how to use it can be found in the documentation tab in the codeplex site. In case you want to keep reading this blog, I suggest you go back to the link: https://debajmecrm.com/enterprise-logger-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm/ and gather an idea …

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Error Logging in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Would like to share with you all a tool which I have built for logging in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The tool works for both CRM 2011 and CRM 2013 versions of on-premise/ IFD/ Office 365 environment. It also gives you the option to perform the log operation in File/ Eventviewer/ Custom Database/ CRM entity as …

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{Dynamics CRM} Programatically Assign privilege to security role for an entity in MSCRM

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Recently in my project, I had a requirement where I needed to assign security privilege to all the roles in the system to a custom entity Programatically. Let’s see how we can achieve the same. Whenever a custom entity is added in CRM, CRM internally created eight privilige records for the entity for the privileges …

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{Dynamics CRM} Not getting latest Text field value on click of custom ribbon button in CRM 2013

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Recently in my project, I was faced with the above problem. The exact scenario is explained below. I have a text field for entering the Device Id in CRM. The user enter a value in the textbox and clicks on the the ‘Determine 54-90’ custom ribbon button without tabbing out from the textbox as shown …

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{Dynamics CRM Web Resources} Show Attachments for an entity in Custom Webresource in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Recently in our project we had a requirement where we needed the attachments for an entity in a custom webresource so that when the user clicks the attachment it downloads. For that first of all you would need to get the attachmentid by querying the annotations which are of type attachment for the entity. Once …

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{Dynamics CRM – SSRS} Execute custom SSRS report from Microsoft Dynamics CRM using custom code.

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Recently we had the requirement in our project where the customer wanted to execute the Export To Excel feature for an editable grid that we implemented. The following in an overview of the requirement. 1. There is a custom jQuery Grid which shows a consolidated view to customer for a custom entity and its related …

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{Dynamics CRM} Get EntityTypeCode of an entity in CRM 2013 using JScript

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Recently in my project i was required to get the entity type code of entity. A little bit of searching and I could find multiple ways to get them in jscript. However the main problems were: 1. they were working only on entity forms 2. you would have to make a metadata call to get …

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{Dynamics CRM Scripting} Exploring the Xrm.Internal namespace in CRM 2013

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Recently i cam across this library in CRM 2013. And I found a lot of helpful methods which could facilitate you during your development. Please check for the screenshot below which shows some of  the methods. Notable are: 1. Xrm.Internal.getEntityName(<entitytypecode>) – you pass in the entitytypecode and get the logical name for the entity 2. …

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Dynamics Crm 2013 Access Teams – Demysitified

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By now many of you might have already explored the concept of Access Teams that has been introduced with CRM 2013. If not then I would suggest to go through it. Personally i kind of liked it as it helped me to escape sufficient amount of coding in my current project. In this post, I …

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"Must specify valid information for parsing in the string. at System.Enum.TryParseEnum" – Error while configuring Outlook with MSCRM

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Recently while configuring outlook for our client, we got the above mentioned error. Also strangely it was working prior to one of our deployments that we did in the organization. So we became pretty sure that it has something to do specific with our latest customizations that we deployed to the environment. What we did is …

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{Dynamics CRM Plugins} Images and Filtering attributes not supported for Plugins for custom Actions in CRM 2013

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In CRM 2013, Microsoft has introduced the concept of actions which is a wonderful way to represent you custom business functionality in the form of a request that CRM platform would understand. Also on top of that, you can register plugins for the actions you create. However there are certain limitations when using plugins with …

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{Dynamics CRM Business Process} Change the Active Stage Flag in CRM 2013 Business Process Flows

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Recently in our project, we had a customer requirement where the customer asked to change the colour of  image of active stage of a business process flow for Opportunity. Let’s see how this can be achieved. OOB in CRM 2013, the active stage flag for a business process in bluish is colour. Please check for …

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{Dynamics CRM Business Rules} Custom Xrm Script and Business Rules on the same Field in Dynamics CRM 2013

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With the advent of Microsoft CRM 2013 in came business rules, a wonderful feature of the new CRM version. However with new implementations, there would be always some new confusions creeping up. Well in many training sessions on CRM 2013, i keep getting the question – “Will my onchange handlers and business rules work at …

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{Dynamics CRM} Control CRM 2013 Business Process Next Stage and Previous Stage flow using JScript.

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Recently in our project we needed to restrict the business process flow from one stage to another depending on certain conditions. The problem was that OOB CRM 2013 does allow you to plugin your custom client side code when the “Next Stage” or the “Previous Stage” icons are clicked. You can obviously register Plugins and …

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CRM 2013 Solution Import Error – An item with the same key has already been added

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In CRM 2013, while importing of solution, we faced the error “An item with the same key has already been added”. A little bit of searching and we found this very good article which describes how to resolve the error – http://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/an-item-with-the-same-key-has-already-been-added-error-while-importing-solution-in-crm-2013/ However as the link suggests, it was not possible for us to delete the …

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{Dynamics CRM} Default Potential Customer lookup to show only accounts/ Contacts in CRM 2013 Business Process Flows

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In the opportunity entity, we have a field “Potential Customer” which is of type “Customer” and it can be both account or contact entity. However sometimes we might need to customize the same to show only contacts or accounts. For this in the form load of the opportunity entity, just add the two lines of …

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Change global optionset mapping for a Entity optionset in Microsoft Dynamics CRM without dropping and recreating the field

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Recently I came across a situation where my local optionset was pointing to one global optionset and then I needed to point to another global optionset. In CRM to do this, you would have to drop the field and recreate field. But the problem is if you have a running system which is being actively …

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Change Field data type in MSCRM without dropping and recreating the field

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All consultants like me be it in MSCRM or any other technology would surely agree with me – “Change is inevitable”. Every time I implement a project for a client, there is always a huge change in the requirements from the time when we started it and the time when we implemented it. And it …

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