Because we all know that maintaining two on-premise environments (e.g. dev & production) can be a pain, sometimes checking certain entities before solution import can be a time saver! To check the data type differences between the attributes of the same entity, on two different organizations, you can use the following SQL statement: — USAGE:… Continue reading Attribute Type differences
Category: CRM 2011
Solution Component Types
Any importable CRM solution holds within the *.zip file a component named solution.xml. In order to edit this, you need a better understanding of the <RootComponent> nodes (type attribute). For a complete list of root component types, you can use the following SQL statement: SELECT AttributeValue as Type, Value as [Root Component] FROM StringMap WHERE… Continue reading Solution Component Types
CRM ribbon button on all entities
In order to add a ribbon button in Dynamics CRM on all entities, simply use the Application Ribbon in your solution, then edit it with the Ribbon Workbench. For more details, please read this article.
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SchemaName JS exposer for CRM
Sometimes inspecting all the elements with Developer Tools or clicking over and over again on the CRM form, attribute by attribute can be irritating. There for, I propose the following approach to all the CRM Consultants and Developers out there who need the attributes’ schema names fast. The JS library is stand-alone and all that… Continue reading SchemaName JS exposer for CRM
Create New Entity from related entity via Ribbon – CRM 2013 & CRM 2015
The fastest way to create a new child record for the current entity using a custom ribbon button, is the following approach: Pass the following parameters to your custom javascript function called CreateNewCRMEntity (for example), as shown in the below image: The next step is to use the following code: function CreateNewCRMEntity(selectedentitytypecode, primaryentitytypecode, firstprimaritemid, PrimaryControl,… Continue reading Create New Entity from related entity via Ribbon – CRM 2013 & CRM 2015
Restoring SQL Enterprise Database to SQL Standard Edition
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2567984
Activity typed Entity – Display in Activity Menus
Upon creating a custom entity as Activity Entity and not checking the “Display in Activity Menus” option, there is no supported way to alter this. However, here is the unsupported approach (in SQL): UPDATE Entity SET ActivityTypeMask = 1 WHERE EntityId = (SELECT EntityId FROM Entity WHERE Name = ‘custom_entity_schema_name’) After this minor adjustment, a… Continue reading Activity typed Entity – Display in Activity Menus
View all registered Plugin Steps (SQL)
To view all the registered Plugin Steps (for all the plugins) in a single query, use the following SQL statement: SELECT T.PluginAssemblyIdName AS PluginName, S.name AS StepName, S.description AS StepDescription, M.name AS Action, E.name AS Entity, CASE S.Stage WHEN 20 THEN ‘PRE’ WHEN 40 THEN ‘POST’ ELSE ‘OTHER’ END AS Stage, CASE S.StateCode WHEN 0… Continue reading View all registered Plugin Steps (SQL)
Fixing Ajax “No Transport” error
Sometimes, making an $.ajax request to a web service might return the “No Transport” error, if the web service is hosted in a different domain. To solve this issue, you need to set the CORS support on true: $.support.cors = true; before you make the $.ajax request and the following property on the request level:… Continue reading Fixing Ajax “No Transport” error