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Entity lists in the Dynamics 365 portals do not have any special handling for the lookups – they just render the display names. Fair enough, after all, how is the rendering code supposed to know what page to link to? If you are comfortable with liquid in portals then the task is relatively easy. Just […]
If you want to take advantage of an obscure Lookup Address feature when dealing with quotes or orders, you will find that the address lookup on that dialog looks very strange: first line is blank followed by the zip/postal code and city. In addition, how do you add multiple addresses to a customer record in […]
tl;dr Teach your users how to use keyboard in a lookup control Longer I know it’s an old piece of wisdom but this morning I just couldn’t help myself when observing the typical frustrating pattern of a user trying struggling to fill in the lookup field: remove hands from keyboard, grab the mouse, struggle to […]
The other day the client asked us to verify the field level security settings on the system. The reason, as they explained it, was that one of the lookup controls appeared disabled and wouldn’t become enabled regardless of what they did to FLS settings. Long story short, the control was disabled not because of the […]
Bonjour, comment ça va! CRM Tip Of The Day is going international and today’s guest is Clément “Bienvenue chez Lagny-le-Sec” Marty Clément continues our stream of tips about lookups and, being French, succinctly explains how to make them prettier and more useful at the same time. If the principal attribute (the name of the record, […]
Most of the time Joel is very helpful but sometimes he’s just plain grumpy: I’m finding that the lookup field quick preview list does not honor sort order. In this example I have a “sequence” field that sorts the list in the desired order: If you go to the lookup dialog, it honors the sort […]
We have received several comments for tip #148. The point of that tip was to explain how to make the customer lookup not return contacts when you type in the name of an account. Based on reader feedback, what many people are looking for is a way to totally restrict the customer lookup to only […]
I recently wrote the book The CRM Mobile Survival Guide. In Chapter 5 I discuss how to configure Dynamics CRM to give users a good user experience when using CRM via the CRM for Tablets app. One thing I found while researching the book is that lookup field behavior in the tablet app is not […]
In Dynamics CRM 2013 when you create a record such as a contact or opportunity that include the “Customer” lookup field that can resolve to an Account or Contact, and you type a company name in the customer field, you may get more results than expected. This is because when you type in the customer lookup […]
