BizTalk, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, outsourcing
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? […]
CRM database without Active Directory You may ask yourself now if for any reason you will have to use CRM database without access to Active Directory. And because I have written this post it means yes – it can happen, even very often 🙂 When? Some Clients for security reasons don’t give access to AD or […]
toString null or undefined – Description I can bet that each of you has at some point encountered with this issue. Especially when working on custom entities or customized built-in entities form. What is the cause? Hmm, there is a couple of possible reasons. Reasons First of all – Microsoft fault 🙂 Some internal form scripts […]
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 […]
Count total number of records – what is the issue How simple can that be to count total number of records – just use linq query using EntitySet object like the one below var contactCounter = new ServiceContext(_service).ContactSet.Select(item => item).Count(); and that’s it. But no – you will get an exception: Invalid ‘count’ condition. An entity member is […]
Entity name by object type code – what is the issue Recently I found myself in a situation where there was no Xrm.Page.data.entity object so getEnityName() could not be used. Yes, there are form where it’s not available 🙂 I thought, phi, piece of cake. I remembered that there is FormEditorWebService.asmx which has a GetEnityId() so […]
What for? Some time ago I had to create and customize ~20 entities. After editing form, saving, publishing and reloading over and over again I thought about creating custom button for publishing. Yeah – why not. But this functionality already exists Yes, that’s true. If anyone hasn’t check how does the built-in publish button works […]
Some time ago as a one part of customizations I got a request to hide AddNew button on subgrid ribbon when parent entity is opportunity. Piece of cake I thought. But it was not. Why? My first thought: open RibbonWorkbench add display rule for a EntityRule set entity name publish When I have […]
When there is a need of converting local to global optionSet we can use https://xrmoptionsetconverter.codeplex.com/. Everything works fine until this customization needs to be exported to another environment on which local optionSet is already declared and filled with data. Why? While importing customization error occures: OptionSetId cannot be changed. EnumAttributeInfo.AttributeDescription.OptionSetId(xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx) != xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx; How does the tool really […]