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Avoiding & Decoupling Hardcoded Values When Building Workflows – Best Practice

Ahmed Anwar, 05 August 2014

Let’s assume a customer wants to upload a document to a remote server when a field change. Connecting to that server requires some credential information. Since these type of information usually change from different environments, then we have to update these information every time we export
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Install and Configure Dynamics CRM 2013 for Outlook 2013

Paul Nieuwelaar, 04 August 2014

1. Download First you need to download the Dynamics CRM 2013 Outlook Client Installer, which can be downloaded in 2 ways: Click on the ‘Get CRM for Outlook’ bar that appears at the top of your Dynamics CRM 2013 system when accessing it via the web browser. Clicking this button wi
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Dynamics CRM 2013 Resurrecting the Form Properties Window with Bookmarklet

Jared Johnson, 03 August 2014

In the redesign of the UI for forms in CRM 2013, one of the useful features that was lost was the Form Properties window. This window would give the Created On date, Created By, Last Modified date and Modified By which was very useful if these fields were not displayed on the form. It would also dis
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View Business Rules for All Entities in Dynamics CRM 2013

Paul Nieuwelaar, 31 July 2014

In Dynamics CRM 2013 we can create business rules for different entities from within a solution, using the new ‘Business Rules’ node under each entity. The business rules for an entity will be automatically deployed with the entity, just like with views, forms, and fields etc. From the B
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Rollup 3 Fixes Many Pain Points of CRM 2013

Paul Nieuwelaar, 30 July 2014

Rollup 3 for Dynamics CRM 2013 is now available to download, and fixes many of the issues I’ve experienced with CRM 2013. Here are some of the main bug fixes which I’m happy to see: Unresolved email sender is not displayed correctly on Email form Unresolved recipients on an email used
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Activate God Mode in CRM 2013 - Don’t Let Your Users See This

Paul Nieuwelaar, 29 July 2014

Previously I’ve been posting about how to recreate CRM functionality using browser bookmarkets. These have included useful functions like opening advanced find, or publishing customizations. In this blog post I’m going to go one step further and show how we can completely disable ALL cli
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Temporarily Disable Auto Save in CRM 2013 with Bookmarklet

Paul Nieuwelaar, 28 July 2014

In Dynamics CRM 2013, when auto save is enabled, any changes to a record will be saved automatically when you close the record. In some cases we need to change data on a record to test functionality, and so we don’t always want those changes to be saved. I’ve created a browser bookmarkl
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Customize and Publish from CRM 2013 Forms with Bookmarklets

Paul Nieuwelaar, 27 July 2014

In Dynamics CRM 2013 Customizers and Admins no longer have the ‘Customize’ tab on records anymore, which I often found useful for when we need to quickly get in and customize an entity, and then once done come back to the record and publish customizations. To make things a little easier
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CRM 2013 Open Advanced Find from Anywhere with Bookmarklet

Paul Nieuwelaar, 24 July 2014

In a previous blog post of mine I explained how to add Advanced Find onto the Form Command Bar in CRM 2013, since the list view no longer stays open while on forms like they did in 2011, it can be difficult getting to advanced find sometimes. In this blog post I will be taking the code from that blo
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The Return of ‘Copy a Link’ to CRM 2013 Forms as Bookmarklet

Paul Nieuwelaar, 23 July 2014

Dynamics CRM 2013 for some reason has decided to remove the Copy a Link button from forms, and instead only shows the Email a Link button. The button still exists on views, however I often find myself on a form wanting to get the URL of the record so I can do something with it. Since the record URL
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CRM 2013 Custom Bookmarklets to Replace Missing Save Buttons

Paul Nieuwelaar, 22 July 2014

In a previous blog post by Jared Johnson, he showed how to create some custom browser bookmarks/favourites to help make some common tasks easier in 2013. These included easily copying the ID of a record, and quickly refreshing the data on the form if it has changed by a workflow etc. He also explain
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CRM 2013 - What Does Disabling Auto Save Actually Do?

Paul Nieuwelaar, 21 July 2014

In Dynamics CRM 2013, by default auto save is enabled, which means changes to a form are automatically saved without the user having to click ‘Save’ or ‘Save & Close’ like you would have to in CRM 2011. We can turn auto save on or off in the System Settings, which will ap
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Performance Center / Form Load Analysis

Greg Olsen, 21 July 2014

Some won’t be aware of the Performance Center with CRM 2013. It is a handy tool activated by hitting CTRL+SHIFT+Q when a record loads. It’s best used with Internet Explorer (it crashes for me when using CRM in Chrome). You can use this tool to analyse the form load times within your inst
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Dynamics CRM - Secret to not having Misaligned Columns from addCustomView

Jared Johnson, 20 July 2014

In Dynamics CRM there is often a requirement to create filters for lookups and subgrids based on values from CRM or from user input. Many of these can be achieved with out of the box CRM Customisations, however some requirements will need to use JavaScript functions. A common way to do this is the
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Microcontroller (MCU) programming

Dinesh Niroshan, 17 July 2014

This is an interesting topic which combines Electronics and programming. I have started to do this few years ago, but couldn't continue due to lack of time. I thought I’d start this again and share some of the learning's. What is a microcontroller Microcontroller is a single chip which contai
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