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NoLock – what is that? NoLock is a QueryExpression property used to specify how a RetrieveMultiple request will behave. Take a look at MS documentation since I’m not used to rewrite someone else’s posts, CRM upgrade features and MS limited documentation. Long story short: NoLock property sets to TRUE looks at database record lock and waits […]
RollupField is not recalculating RollupField – yes, nice CRM >= 2015 feature. Theoretically a cure for all previous “manual” calculations. Of course it has some limitations but this post is not about that. MSDN documentation contains these informations anyway. Unfortunatelly I came across a major issue related with rollup field when it’s type is Money. When? […]
Linq LoadProperty Issue – Description Recently I had to fix some legacy code (one of the worst code I have ever seen) and improve requests performance. When reviewing the code everything looks fine. There was a OrganizationServiceContext generated by crmsvcutil. Because one of the property was N:N relation a LINQ LoadProperty method was used. Nevertheless business logic […]
ErrorSerializingRegFile – when I first met with this one If you have found this post I assume that you have already looked for *.registerfile errors, plugin and workflow mismatches between register file and already registered items, deployment administrator security rights. ErrorSerializingRegFile – what that can mean? Everything during plugin deployment looks right, but is it? So […]
Some time ago I needed to find all dirty attributes on form. Easy I thought. It occurs that some at some entitites getIsDirty() flag for field statuscode is always set – check on clean form load. To get all changed fields I’ve written method that read all dirty fields on form excluding specified fields. GetDirtyFields: […]
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; […]
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 […]