Here is a great article about setting up CRM for Outlook on a Windows 8 Box! Read More…
Filed under CRM for Outlook
Read-Optimized Foms
As Microsoft Dynamics CRM moves into the future by enabling information workers to access information across many devices and networks—environments in which time-to-load and consumption are the key success factors—we’re focusing more than ever on providing a fast-loading, consumption-oriented user experience. This focus is particularly helpful for people who use Microsoft Dynamics CRM primarily to [...]
Filed under CRM, CRM On-Premise, CRM Online
Setting the Business Requirement status of an attribute in CRM 2011
Sometimes when building forms you are going to run into a situation where you may need to set or remove the business requirement of an attribute on a form. This comes in handy when you are using multiple forms for different types of users. For instance, a salesmen may only need the ability to add [...]
Filed under Extending CRM UI, Javascript
Outlook 2010 Ribbon Bar disappears after installing the CRM 2011 Add in
Here is an intersting issue I ran across when upgrading a client from Office 2007 to Office 2010 as part of Office 365. When we completed the upgrade and installed the CRM Outlook component, the ribbon bar was gone! No Home, Send/Receive/ Folder etc. This was realted to a bug in the upgrade process. You’re [...]
Filed under CRM for Outlook
Adding Buttons to a CRM From using Jquery
6/25/2012 UPDATE: This new version will work in either Header, Footer, Body or all! In the post we are going to take a look at licking a problem that I have with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. That is adding buttons to a form to perform some sort of action. There are several ways of [...]
Filed under Extending CRM UI, Javascript
Force Submit on a Read-Only or Disabled Field on CRM 2011
By default, if a field on your form is disabled, it will not save any changes made via script. In these cases you need to specifically change its submit mode as follows: 1 Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_attributename").setSubmitMode("always"); Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“new_attributename”).setSubmitMode(“always”); Pure and simple!
Filed under Javascript
CRM 4.0 Locking up IE 7
Here is a crazy issue we ran across last week. We’ve had this issue with our production CRm where many users have been complaining about IE7 locking up when they went to save a record (Opportunities, leads etc). All of the entities had custom javascript that would make async calls back to the CRM web [...]
Filed under CRM 4
