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CRM 2013 Mobile App Customising What Entities are Enabled
Jared Johnson, 29 October 2013
The CRM 2013 Mobile app by default displays the following entities: Read/Write: • Account • Contact • Lead • Opportunity • Opportunity Product • Notes • Competitor &b
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CRM 2013 Left Navigation Greasemonkey Script
Jared Johnson, 08 October 2013
Note: This is now available in a managed solution, click here for more information. In my previous blog, I showed how to transform the new horizontal top Navigation in CRM 2013, to a vertical left navigation. However the method described only worked for On Premise deployments and also affected all
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Dynamics CRM 2013 - Turn Top Horizontal Navigation into Left Vertical Navigation
Jared Johnson, 06 September 2013
Note: This is now available in a managed solution, click here for more information. In the new CRM 2013 release, one of the big changes was the removal of the left hand navigation, replaced with a touch focused, auto-hiding menu bar at the top of the screen. This menu is designed for wide screen mo
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Dynamics CRM 2011 – Prevent Header Web resource disappearing
Jared Johnson, 11 July 2013
On a Dynamics CRM project we had a requirement to show a simple static html page in the header of a contact form. We achieved this by adding the html page as a web resource to CRM and then using the insert web resource button to insert the page into the header. Pre Rollup 12 this worked fine, howeve
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Windows 8 App Development – Using the Credential Locker
Jared Johnson, 10 June 2013
If you need to store usernames and passwords for your Windows 8 app, Windows 8 has a great new feature to make this easier – the Credential Locker. The Credential Locker stores user information encrypted, and is only available to be accessed on a per app baises: If your app saves a password to
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Windows 8 App – Using DataTemplateSelector to Select FlipView Template
Jared Johnson, 13 May 2013
While working on a Windows 8 Xaml and C# app, I was using a FlipView control to display data, however I wanted the layout of each item to change with the data displayed. To achieve this I used the DataTemplateSelector class which will switch between predefined templates. To use the DataTemplateSe
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How To Toggle Tab Visibility Based On Another Tab
Jared Johnson, 01 December 2012
When customizing a form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 I had a requirement to have a tab appear to actually be a part of the tab above it. This is easy to achieve visually by hiding the label but this façade quickly disintegrates once you close the first tab. To have the second tab open and c
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ClickDimensions - How to create a contact form
Jared Johnson, 29 August 2012
Before you begin to create the contact form, you must create the fields on the form that you will require. To do this, click on Form Fields in the ClickDimensions section under the Settings CRM tab and click new. This will give you 3 fields to fill out, the Name of the field, the Form Field
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Sitefinity – Detecting if a page is in design mode
Jared Johnson, 16 August 2012
When creating custom controls for Sitefinity, it can be very useful to be able to detect if the page the control is on is in Design view. This can be useful for adding extra functionality for setting up your controls options for page designers, or to avoid displaying content that would get in the wa
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Sitefinity 5 – Events Calendar
Jared Johnson, 14 June 2012
In Sitefinity version 3 there was included an Events Calendar widget. However it was not included in Sitefinity 4 onwards. Here is how you can recreate the Events Calendar in Sitefinity 5. Sitefinity 3.7 Events Calendar Create a web user control called EventsCalendar. In EventsCalendar
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Preventing Windows Azure Subscriptions from being disabled due to reaching spending limit
Jared Johnson, 16 May 2012
Last month we had our Sitefinity site on Azure go completely down. On checking the Azure management portal, we found that not only was the subscription disabled but our deployment had been deleted! It turns out that the spending limit had not been disabled on the subscription we were using, so onc
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Enabling HTTP compression in a Sitefinity website running on Windows Azure
Jared Johnson, 09 May 2012
Sitefinity websites can contain a large amount of JavaScript files, possibly up to a megabyte. Thus enabling HTTP compression can significantly increase the performance of your website. YSlow stats of a Sitefinity page with a lot of JavaScript. To enable HTTP compression first add this
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Telerik RadCaptcha in Windows Azure using Windows Azure Caching
Jared Johnson, 23 April 2012
After migrating a Sitefinity site that was using Telerik’s RadCaptcha to Azure, I noticed that occasionally the captcha just displayed a grey box. This was because by default the captcha image is stored in the server cache, but with multiple instances in Azure the server the browser is connect
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Preventing Row not found error in Sitefinity on Windows Azure
Jared Johnson, 19 April 2012
When editing pages and content in the backend on a Sitefinity website deployed on Windows Azure, I would occasionally get nasty looking errors that read something like this in one of Sitefinity’s popup boxes: “Row not found: GenericOID@r2j33174 SecurityRoot id=950d7b35-46je-4p56-75f5-7cd
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MS Communities – Managing a User Group Part 1
Jared Johnson, 24 February 2012
Each MS Communities user group has its own management page. On this page a group admin can do things such as change the group name and image, manage group members and forums. To access the management page you must be logged and be a group admin. When logged in a “Manage Group” link will
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