In CRM 2016 we have the fantastic Word Templates feature with which users can generate finished documents in just a few clicks. Far easier than the old mail merge options, and no need to have locally installed versions of Word, the Outlook client and so on. But one annoying limitation of the feature for many […]
Tip #689: The quickest way to create CRM Online demo
Daryl “New MVP on the block” LaBar certainly is pulling his tipping share and is back with another quick tip. If you are part of the Microsoft Partner ecosystem, and are in the need of a well designed demo with the scripted scenarios to walk through, then the quickest way to get there is not […]
Tip #686: Quote products do not like auto save
Guido “Trekkie not Star Wars fan” Preite is on a roll this week. His customer was facing an annoying bug on the Quote Product subgrid inside the Quote entity. When he creates a new Write-in product, then proceeds to change the price or the quantity, and the autosave kicks in, the value is restored to […]
Tip #684: Annotate your OData
One of the advantages of the Web API is its ability to fine-tune and annotate the returned data thus avoiding excessive round trips and generally relying on the server to do the heavy lifting. Even Daryl “New MVP on the block” LaBar admits in his tip that he was not aware that it is possible […]
Tip #668: ADFS and CRM on the same server
There are reasons to do the unspeakable, ignore all recommendations and install all components of on-premises CRM deployment on a single machine. Running CRM on my laptop, for example, as I don’t have room for 3 server deployment. tl;dr If CRM and AD FS are on the same server, change port used by AD FS. […]
Tip #657: CRM 4.0 Registration Hack
Remember good old days of CRM 4.0 when there were in total 42 Dynamics CRM consultants around the world, product names had dots in them, icons had colors and legends like Michael Höhne ruled the newsgroups? Even if you don’t, there is still a decent chance that you may need CRM 4.0 installation to bail […]
Tip #644: Async Dynamics CRM awaits you
Gayan “Performance Wizard” Perera hates waiting. Be smart, be like Gayan. For anyone who’s been waiting to get async/await support for the CRM SDK, you can now get a simple extension class from https://github.com/NZxRMGuy/crmsdk-async The downside with my one is that it’s a wrapper around the sync method – some people do frown upon this […]
Tip #625: The death of Activity Feeds has been exaggerated
I’ll start today’s truckstop with a rant (which, in itself, is nothing unusual). <rant> Why do I always have to type up Joel’s tips for him? What world are we living in when even Jukka “Kalsarikännit” Niiranen does not know the answer? </rant> Jukka New 2016 instances of CRM Online no longer show the custom […]
Tip #618: Mute power or powerless voice
If you’ve been following our Voice of the Customer videos, you may have been tempted to install the solution and try it for yourself. For those of you using PowerBI to do some cool reporting on your CRM data, a timely word of warning from Jukka “Survivor” Niiranen: Currently there’s a known issue with the […]
Tip #609: Higher SQL compatibility level does not mean better
Gayan “Performance Wizard” Perera continues to live up to his nickname with another awesome performance tip. tl;dr Beware setting the SQL database compatibility level to a level higher than 110 on a CRM 2016 system. The scenario You have an entity with more than 5 secured fields. When the record is opened it either times […]