I upgraded to server side SharePoint integration and now I don’t see enough detail from the document grid. It doesn’t show me who checked out the file, and I have to open the SharePoint location to see who checked it out. Reader Good news–with server-side SharePoint integration you can customize the grid more than you […]
Release 9.1.X (the coveted October release) is already here and some organizations have already been upgraded to the new version. Steve “Mr SMB” Mordue was, for a change, on the receiving end, as his customers complained that Word templates stopped working after the upgrade. When a template is selected from a record, new shiny Dynamics […]
We have posted here about attachments, and we’ve posted about documents, and whether you should extract your attachments to Azure or SharePoint. But in these discussions, users can get confused, so in this post, I’m hoping to add some clarity to this topic. In my opinion, attachments and document management are two different use cases. […]
It does not happen often but it does happen. After some retrospection, I urge everyone to be very careful when following Joel’s advice on using attachment extractor solution. (Some say one needs to be careful when following any Joel’s advice but that’d be a discussion for another day). My arguments (both of them): It is […]
Recently on the Dynamics CRM Facebook group, Rana Potter asked if it was possible to search within attachments from CRM. The winning answer came from Niran Belliapa: If you are using Dynamics 365 Online and have the December 2016 update you can use the Relevance search feature. You’ll find search results for text in a document […]
Here we expand on the use of Document Templates in CRM 2016. We look at the different options available for including related data, talk about some of the limitations, and finally walk though how to create a template that uses data from different related records. (both parent and child) Give us your feedback, all of […]
Friday again, folks, time for video break. In today’s video we explore the new document template feature that was introduced in CRM 2016. We walk you through creation, editing, and uploading back into CRM. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m sure we can take it. Suggest new topics either […]
So you have implemented Dynamics CRM with SharePoint document integration. The mindset of many companies with SharePoint is that SharePoint is where all documents should live, and that is a good idea, as SharePoint provides document collaboration features not found in CRM. However, Microsoft Dynamics CRM includes Sales Literature functionality. The value of sales literature is that […]
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