Browsers are on a war path. First, in case you were wondering why editing emails in workflows no longer work, that’s because Chrome disabled showModalDialog, breaking bucketloads of CRM functionality relying on that. See this good summary for a comprehensive feature list and a temporary workaround. Firefox has been much sneakier than that. It kind […]
I am very honored to have Joel as my fellow CRM tipster. Most of the time, that is. Sometimes I find myself closely studying the state of my own footware thinking if I should ever be seen in one room with that person. Take, for example, this post. Update each message for the entity, replacing […]
One of the challenges of creating reports is the lack of real data in development environment. There is not enough Nancies Davolios to simulate real volumes. For that reason alone production organization is often replicated “back” to test and development environments. Reports suddenly come to life and designers can see 7-figures opportunities and otherwise empty […]
Following my anal retentive attention to the tightness of LINQ code and SQL it generates, I decided to refactor an old piece of code that extracted identifiers of the accounts matching certain criteria. Being very smug with all the newly acquired knowledge, I quickly produced an equivalent of: To my horror, this code generated an […]
Well, this is embarrassing. Remember that flogging I unleashed on unscrupulous developers being disrespectful to LINQ, performance and humanity in general? I was basking in my own cleverness of possessing the knowledge of LINQ operators including magic Any: Yesterday I had a chance to use what I preached and this is what I got in […]
Say, you need to find out if your organization has any opportunities with the estimated value of more than a million dollars (that’s right, that’s how developers usually roll). No need to retrieve anything, just simple yes or no. There are many ways to accomplish the task, most of them, sadly, are as efficient as […]
When it comes to the coding, not always but often, less means better, faster and more manageable code. I’ve recently come across of someone else’s (could it have been me 4 years ago?) piece of work updating bulk email setting for the contact: Sigh. The “all columns” sin aside, the retrieve is absolutely unnecessary. You […]
Password expiration in CRM Online is indeed a nuisance and can be changed but the maximum password expiration period configurable using Office 365 administration portal is 2 years. If you intend to use O365/CRM Online for longer than 2 years, you may want to consider using Powershell tools to do it like a boss. The […]
As you may or may not know, Unified Service Desk (USD) has made its appearance alongside with CRM 2013 SP1 in May 2014. It makes use of User Interface Integration (UII) SDK capabilities that has been part of Dynamics CRM SDK download since December 2013. We thought it was important back then but now there […]
True ninja knows Himitsu iri or the art of “Silent movement”. Ability to move quickly and without screeching mouse noise is crucial when it comes to quickly whipping a prototype or putting out fire in production. Minimizing mouse movements is important skill that keeps your boss, your customers and your wrist happy. These are just […]
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