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CRM 2015 FetchXML Aggregates not working in Plugins Anymore
Paul Nieuwelaar, 28 May 2015
If you've started receiving random NullReferenceException errors when executing your plugins after upgrading to CRM 2015, this might be why. When performing SUM aggregates in plugins, for some reason now, if there are no records for that entity, instead of giving you no results like it used to, you
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Automatically add Resource to Resource Group in Dynamics CRM
Paul Nieuwelaar, 18 May 2015
One of the key pieces of Service Scheduling is resources and resource groups. If your resources are not in any resource groups, they won't be able to be scheduled for any services. To make sure this doesn't happen, we can automatically add resources into a default resource group when they are create
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Debug Multiple Projects at the Same Time in Visual Studio
Paul Nieuwelaar, 07 April 2015
Usually when we need to debug something in Visual Studio, it's one project that we're launching, so we can simply set our project as the startup project by right clicking the project, and selecting set as startup project. In some cases however, we need to be debugging 2 or more projects at the same
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Email Tracking Error with Dynamics CRM 2015 Outlook Client
Paul Nieuwelaar, 02 April 2015
Recently one of our customers upgraded from CRM 2011 to CRM 2015. During this process users were required to switch to the CRM 2015 Outlook Client. This meant uninstalling the 2011 connector and installing the 2015 connector. What we noticed however is that certain users were experiencing errors wh
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Error on Create of Appointment in CRM 2013 SP1 Rollup 2
Paul Nieuwelaar, 26 March 2015
After updating to CRM 2013 SP1 Rollup 2, we noticed an error on create of appointments in one of our clients systems. The error was a generic "Unexpected Error" which gave no indication of why it was happening The error in the log file was as follows: 430<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schema
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Sub-Reports in Dynamics CRM and SSRS Run on Multiple Records
Paul Nieuwelaar, 11 February 2015
In Dynamics CRM, when we create a report in SSRS we can choose to add filtering so it can be run on a single record, or multiple records from CRM. Say we want to create a custom invoice report, which contains our company logo, and some details about the invoice and line items. This will typically be
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Create New Records from Anywhere in CRM 2013 with Bookmarklet
Paul Nieuwelaar, 14 December 2014
In Dynamics CRM 2013, and even CRM 2015, finding the entity you’re looking for can be difficult using the Site Map. If you have a lot of entities in your sitemap, or if the entity you need to create isn’t even in the site map, it can be difficult to get to where you need to be to create
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How To Reopen Closed Activities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 with Bookmarklet
Paul Nieuwelaar, 18 November 2014
In Microsoft Dynamics CRM, once an activity has been closed, unlike most other entities, there’s no button to reactivate it. This means that if an activity is accidently closed, or if we want to modify some fields after it’s closed, we simply cannot. One way to reactivate the activity is
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Dynamics CRM 2013/2015 Open Lookup in New Window Bookmarklet
Paul Nieuwelaar, 13 November 2014
In Dynamics CRM 2013, and also CRM 2015, when we click on the link in a lookup field, the record opens. However, because of the flat UI introduced with CRM 2013, the record opens in the same window as the record you’re currently on. In other words, you’re forced to navigate away from the
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Globally Define Error Reporting Preferences Out of the Box
Paul Nieuwelaar, 09 October 2014
In Dynamics CRM every now and then users may encounter errors like the one below. These are typically random errors with Microsoft scripts that usually do not affect any functionality. We’re prompted with the option to ‘Send Error Report’ to Microsoft so they can fix the bug if e
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Data Encryption Errors After Restoring Microsoft Dynamics CRM Database
Paul Nieuwelaar, 08 October 2014
If you’re seeing an error similar to the one above, you’ve probably done a database backup and restore from a Dynamics CRM 2013 instance into a new Dynamics CRM 2013 or 2015 instance. This error will pop up when you try and modify a user’s email address, or open personal options f
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Users Unable to Track Emails after CRM 2013 SP1 Update
Paul Nieuwelaar, 06 October 2014
If you’ve recently upgraded to CRM 2013 SP1 and you’ve applied the product update for cases, you might be experiencing an issue where outlook users are unable to track certain emails in CRM. They receive an error: You do not have permissions to access these records. Contact your Microsof
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Required Fields Missing Red Asterisk Symbol in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Paul Nieuwelaar, 28 September 2014
Recently we noticed a problem where some users were not seeing that a field was required in Dynamics CRM 2013. The field still behaved the same, and would display a notification if the field was left blank, however it simply would not show the red asterisk beside the field letting the user know the
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New Conditional Statements Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Business Rules
Paul Nieuwelaar, 25 September 2014
Business Rules were introduced in Dynamics CRM 2013, which allowed customizers to create simple conditions to manipulate the form without needing to write any JavaScript. The only limitation of this was that to create If-Then-Else style conditions we had to create multiple business rules to accommod
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Branching Business Process Flows in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015
Paul Nieuwelaar, 24 September 2014
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 adds a new feature to Business Process Flows that were introduced in Dynamics CRM 2013, which now allows us to branch the process in a different direction based on some condition. Similar to in a workflow or dialog where we might have several different paths that can be t
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