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What for Sometimes, there is necessity of getting historical values for entity attribute. Of course to do so audit for organization, entity and attribute have to be turned on. Code below allows user, with proper privileges, to read attribute value audit. For sure if you need fancy validation this code is no good for that. […]
If you have several forms for entity, and you need to create new form based on previously created form there are two options: open form customization window and SaveAs simple copy form request can be used instead of inserting fields ony by one using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages; var stageAdapter = new CRMServiceAdapter("SERVER_NAME", "Stage"); var organizationService = stageAdapter.Proxy; […]
Sometimes there is need to perform “deep” reset of entire IIS envirionment. To do so You can use powershell script: $CRMSnapin = 'Microsoft.CRM.PowerShell'; if ( (Get-PSSnapin -Name $CRMSnapin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null ) { Add-PSSnapin $CRMSnapin } #iisreset # Recycle only CRM Application Pool to free dlls. C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:CRMAppPool C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:CrmDeploymentServiceAppPool […]
Suppose we have to fields: A and B, for both fields there is registered OnChange() event, field B is disabled. In OnChange_fieldA() code we are changing fieldB attribute, but OnChange_fieldB() is not fired. Why? Build-in javascript mechanism doesn’t notify field attribute change if field is disabled or change is made via JS code, not via UI. […]
Sometimes code must be invoked with admin-user priviledge, e.g. when retrieving data to which invoking user has no access. In this scenario You can impersonate OrganizationService to other user only for time operation is executing. Invoking code which must be run with higher priviledged is extremely easy. Code is written just like it is in […]
Where it is used? When creating plugin in VisualStudio via DeveloperToolkit there is an option to provide some configuration. Configuration is a string field which can be represented witch simple string, XML, CSV or other schema. Auto generated constructor is also created where both configurations are represented as plain string, which you can parse […]
While writing javascript code it is the most fundamental question. Both ways are capable of CRUD operations, so what is the difference? Recently I’ve written some code to retrieve only one flag from opportunity entity at JS. Beside that JS entity had registered plugin at PreRetrieve. Of course in plugin code I was checking if […]
REST endpoint is one way of retrieving data on client side. REST operations are using datasets, which are treated as entity item collections. Personally the easiest way of using REST endpoint is to use XrmServiceTooltkit.REST library. Where to find datasets? http://servername:port/OrganizationName/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/ … – <collection href=”new_errorSet“> <atom:title>new_errorSet</atom:title> </collection> … Where to find fieldnames used […]
When we are creating an entity field, the Name we give is its schema name. After creating field the schema name also becomes the logical name. The values are same but with one difference, the casing. Example: DisplayName: NewFieldName Name: new_NewFieldName (schema name) LogicalName: new_newfieldname Where both names are used ? SchemaName: early bounding (ServiceContext), crmsvutil […]
At standard operation email is being sent to EntityReference object corresponding to: User, Contact etc. Entity reference is being converted anyway into ActivityParty object. So, why not to use ActivityParty just from email address collection: private const string HtmlMimeType = @"Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"; private const string PlainTextMimeType = @"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8"; public void CreateEmail(string title, string […]