Steve “kick the hornet’s nest” Mordue asks: Does anyone know of a tool for comparing two security roles easily? Good news Steve. There’s a Yack for that. David Yack’s fantastic Xrm.Tools has a security role explorer that allows you to easily compare two Dynamics 365 security roles, identify what is unique to each role, and […]
Tip #770: Power to the users and developers with Chrome extension
If you are developer or power user, and don’t mind shooting yourself in a foot, check out Chrome Extension for Dynamics CRM Power users, available as a Chrome extension or as a birthday suit a.k.a. source code. Just some of our favorite features: God Mode. Makes all mandatory fields optional. Makes hidden fields/tabs/sections visible. Makes […]
Tip #654: Use the XrmToolbox to copy templates
No later than 2 days after publishing Gayan’s tip on dangers of moving Word templates between deployments, Tanguy “The XRM Toolbox” Touzard stepped in and automated the process as part of the XrmToolbox. It’s a first cut, a bit rough around the edges but you are more than welcome to jump in and fix whatever […]
Tip #651: Copying word templates between CRM deployments
As you all know (or will know in a second), each entity in CRM has a logical name as well as a number (entity type code). In most places, names and numbers can be used interchangeably, e.g. when opening forms, views, dialogs and reports. While the name, guarded by the publisher’s prefix, does not change […]
Tip #405: Convert Your SQL To FetchXML The Easy Way (or Cai)
Kingswaysoft has recently updated their SQL2Fetch Convertor Let’s say you are moving from CRM On premises to CRM Online and you want to update your reports to work with CRM Online, you can take the SQL query from your report, paste it in the SQL box and click the “convert” button to generate FetchXML. This […]
Tip #239: The undo button
When you are working in an application like Excel and you accidentally type over some important text, isn’t it great to be able to hit the “undo” button? Don’t you wish that Dynamics CRM had an undo feature? It can, with the help of Jason Lattimer’s nifty Audit Undo solution. As long as the user […]