One of the best advantages of Dynamics CRM is its flexibility to be extended or to add the functionality you want. For example you might want to connect your CRM with your accounting software which can help you to reduce lot of double entry while increasing consistency. Add-on products built for tha
Read the full article hereIn this blog I will show how to create a quick marketing campaign and use an e-mail template for all participants in the campaign. It is important to design your e-mail template in such way that it looks personal. Potential customers need to feel appreciated and should be looked after with care. The
Read the full article hereI am currently in the process of setting up rigorous and robust testing systems and as a result have been doing a lot of investigation and research on the various types of testing to be conducted on a piece of software in order for it to meet the customer’s requirements and therefore achieve critica
Read the full article hereWith the web progressing so quickly it isn’t surprising that even the basics are getting better and better. With the release of HTML5 the web front is going to change dramatically. HTML5 is the new version of HTML4.0. The focus of HTML 5 however is directed at that of the Web application developers
Read the full article hereI recently found myself needing to add a left navigation group to a form. Initially I thought this would be no more difficult than adding a tab or section. I was wrong. As you can see, there is no such option to simply add a new group to the left navigation. Thankfully there are a few workarounds we
Read the full article hereIn Dynamics CRM 2011, by default there are several different views that are configured for some of the main entities, such as Contacts and Accounts. In some cases it is good to keep these default views, as they usually provide some handy information. If you are adding lots of your own views however,
Read the full article hereTo promote your teamwork, collaboration and to best manage business and sales process you can create connections between the records stored in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can connect records such as account, contacts, users, quotes, sales orders and other record types and describe the relationships.
Read the full article hereA cool feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for Outlook is the ability to apply conditional formatting to records in a view. Conditional formatting allows you to define a set of conditions so that certain records in a view stand out from the rest. Users have control over the styling they want to a
Read the full article hereI have recently been working on a project where the client requested that their Activities in Dynamics CRM are displayed in SharePoint 2010. However, there was a catch. The projects which exist in SharePoint 2010 and the Projects Entity in Dynamics CRM 2011 have no logical connection therefore the o
Read the full article hereData validation is the process of ensuring that clean, consistent, and accurate data is input into a system to make sure that useful analysis and reporting can be performed on business data. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 provides various methods for data validation such as duplicate detection, field c
Read the full article hereCurrently we are working on an upgrade from CRM 4.0 to Dynamics CRM 2011, it is a large scale project and to ensure we dot all our I’s and cross all our t’s I have been utilising Microsoft SureStep Upgrade approach. In order to access these resources you need to be a Microsoft partner or
Read the full article hereThe latest Update Rollup 5 in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 introduces some really cool new features. There are improvements in creating and editing System and Personal charts. New enhancements are added in working with Dialogs and Workflows. Data management is also improved, there have been CRM Outlo
Read the full article hereAre you annoyed by having to update Contacts’ details one by one with same content? Here is a task, which is retrieving current Account’s multi Contacts and updates them by Account’s details. This task uses a HTML page with JavaScript, fetches account’s information, finds the relevant Contacts and u
Read the full article hereIn my previous blog post I have given some tips to pass Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Application exam. In this blog post I will share one of my secrets to passing Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications exam. I have attended the training for users provided by Magnetism which helped me clarifiy my concepts of
Read the full article hereAs a Trainee Dynamic CRM Developer, continuously learning is one of my daily tasks. In my last 3 weeks, I have spent lots of time in Googling and reading all sorts of learning materials about Dynamic CRM 2011. Now I would like to share some of them with you. If you are new to Dynamic CRM 2011, and w
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