Today’s tip from Linda Connolly – thanks! You can send your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com too! I spotted this one when doing some work earlier in the week. If you’re building a business unit specific solution for a customer and want to quickly and easily only show them the views/forms designed for them, add the Site […]
Tip #1222: View is not available error in App for Outlook
Update: this can also be caused by system views being deactivated. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4338690/the-view-is-not-available-error-message-appears-when-opening-an-email ————————————— You open Dynamics 365 App for Outlook and you see an error in the Outlook app pane saying “View is not available. Contact your administrator.” This part of the pane is a form in the contact or lead entity called the […]
Tip #751: When only some views fail
Symptom Users can freely access entity records in some views but not the others – instead they receive the following error: You do not have permission to access these records. Contact your Microsoft Dynamics CRM administrator. Solution Check that the views that generate “access denied” error do not include fields from the parent entity users […]
Tip #480: Mobile App Troubleshooting
Recently we ran into a vexing issue with the use of the Dynamics CRM (for phone) app. The error was occurring on all three platforms we tested – Windows Phone, Windows Desktop and Android phone. We connected the application to another organization and didn’t see the error. So we concluded it must have been something with the […]
Tip #291: Disabled Views and CRM for Tablets
In Dynamics CRM, if you have a system view that you don’t want users to see, you can deactivate the view in customizations. That means that the view will not appear in the CRM view selector. Except for in the tablet app. You see all views, even the disabled system views. This has been fixed […]
Tip #283: Create a limited customizer role
In most deployments, users who need to manage customizations in an environment are granted the System Administrator or System Customizer role. This gives them the ability to create or edit entities, relationships, fields, views, charts, dashboards, the whole enchilada. But what if you want a nibble of the enchilada? Not all customizations carry the same […]
Tip #200: Now you see it now you don’t
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 […]
Tip #191: Update system view filters the quick way
Dynamics CRM 2013 includes a very quick way to update filters of system views. Navigate to the view you wish to update Click the filter button in the upper right hand corner and filter the view as desired. . 3. Click the more options (…) button 4. Click “Save Filters to Current System View” After […]