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Release of ‘Get Total Records Count Solution’ Dynamics 365 Solution

SharePoint & CRM

Although I created this some time ago in order to get an accurate count of important records in our system it’s taken me some time to tidy it up and get it ready for release to the public.

The project and all source code are available on GitHub, feel free to use it in any manner you see fit, however, I’d appreciate being credited and hearing about whatever you do with it.

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Social Pane control not working in custom forms?

This may save you hours of searching!

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What with being so busy with clients, combined with the growth of the CRM community, it’s been a long time since I discovered anything genuinely new that hadn’t already been blogged about elsewhere. Finally, over 18 months since my last post, I found something worth shouting about!

The Social Pane just shows as Notes on custom forms

I manage an ISV solution that is developed in CRM Online. The solution began life in the 2011 guise but I’ve recently upgraded to CRM Online 2013 and I’m in the process of redesigning forms. I wanted to use the new “Social Pane” style control that surfaces Activity, Notes and Wall Posts and is best seen on the native “Account” form. Several blog posts will tell you that this control can be added to your form by clicking on the familiar “Notes” button in the Form Designer. The problem was, on my custom…

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QueryExpression Filter Lookup by Name instead of ID Dynamics CRM 2016

This post is originally posted here. In CRM if we want to filter a query using a particular lookup value, e.g. if you had a lookup to Country and you wanted to query all Accounts where the Country is New Zealand, you could achieve this in a couple of different ways. The first and most … Continue reading QueryExpression Filter Lookup by Name instead of ID Dynamics CRM 2016 →

Multi-language JavaScript messages in Dynamics 365 9.0 using RESX files

It’s easier to localize front-end messages now!

Better CRM

One of the not-so-shiny-and-mentioned-on-twitter-and-blogs feature of Dynamics 365 9.0 is simplification of localization of Web Resources. If you have ever worked on a international Dynamics CRM project, which required multiple Language Packs and not all users were using the same language, you probably had some difficulties when trying to show some message on the form using JavaScript or throw an exception with a message from plugin. There was no out-of-the-box localization strategy – some common dictionary with values for multiple languages from which we could easily get the value in current system user language. Of course there are a lot of possibilities here, all of which include usage of some kind of Web Resource like XML or JSON just to store the proper value in all required languages.

Dynamics 365 9.0 introduces new Web Resource type – RESX. This is the very well known, plain old resources file, which we…

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