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A terrible catch when ordering data using FetchXML
At the moment we are finishing up a product for CRM 2015 we have been developing over the last 7 months. As with most large software development projects, the last period is spent on stabilizing the...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 2: research
Summer season is always a hard season to spend time behind your computer, the tempation of relaxing and spending time with your family and friends is big. But then guilt and curiousity win and I crawl...
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Hardcore CRM: Do a major upgrade of a plugin version!
isclaimer / Warning / Attention: This is not a task that you’ll conduct frequently. This task only makes sense if you are doing product development in which you want to make an explicit difference...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 3: Stage one “Web API”
Ya mas! It has been over two weeks since I posted the last article in this series. As I mentioned before it is hard to stay focused while enjoying the summer ans spending holidays with your family on a...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 4: Demo “Web API”
Welcome to the next episode in the “Using CRM from an external website” series. In my last article, I described the Web API scenario. The Web API scenario is the first step in the journey and depends...
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A Penny for your thoughts: What do you think of code protection?
Earlier this year, I wrote a couple of articles on protection of intellectual property called “The dark side of CRM” (article, article, article, article). Today a colleague stumbled on one of the...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 5: Stage two “Client side scripting”
In this series I’m working towards a scenario in which I integrate Dynamics CRM with an external web site. My ultimate goal is to run an external web site on a non Microsoft platform, using web...
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A better SharePoint Connector – part 9: Improvements!
It has been quite a while since I completed the “A better SharePoint connector” series of articles. In part 6 of the series, I published the SharePoint connector source code. A good and solid 1.0...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 6: Unauthorized! – L’histoire se...
L’histoire se répète is a french expression which expresses that bad things happen again and again. Right now I’m working on a small demo in which I intend to demonstrate how you can use javascript and...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 7: Back to the drawing board
I ended my previous article with the conclusion that history was repeating itself. For some reasons I don’t understand, Microsoft is making it very hard for developers to integrate Microsoft products...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 8: Custom Authentication Service
In this series of articles I’m trying to find multiple ways to connect to Dynamics CRM from an external website. A scenario that I could implement succesfully was the Web API scenario which was based...
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#MobileCRM: A different mindset in projects
Today we had a nice discussion at the office. A discussion about mobile CRM and customers wanting a mobile CRM solution. Some customers really want to take it the the max, this means that they really...
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Using CRM from an external website – part 9: Custom Authentication Service –...
In this series, I’m investiging alternate ways to make a connection from an external website to the back-end Dynamics CRM system. In the previous article in this series, I posted some code snippets of...
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Document integration – part 1: some ideas…
The last months I’ve been repeatedly confronted with the SharePoint Document integration in Dynamics CRM. In CRM 2015 the “old” SharePoint integration was replaced by a server side integration....
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Document integration – part 2: Designing the concept
In my last article I described the flaws in the default SharePoint document integration; the use of folders instead of meta data, the flaky document retrieval capabilities and the lack of communication...
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Hardcore CRM: Dynamic plug-in step (de)provisioning
At the moment I’m in the middle of writing a series of articles about Document Integration. One of the perks of writing articles is that you have to do a lot of technical research. This afternoon was...
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Document integration – part 3: Tinkering with the ribbon
I’ve been a bit quiet lately. This is caused by the problem I’m tackling at this moment. In this article I’ll explain what I’m working on, and more important what details I need to smooth out before I...
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Hardcore CRM: Dynamic provisioning of the ribbon
At the moment I’m working on a series of articles about document integration within CRM. I have this big hairy audicious goal that I want to achieve… which is to provide a better experience than the...
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Hardcore CRM: Dynamic provisioning – structure of the ribbon
In my last article, I managed to export and import the ribbon dynamically. At this point I need to alter the contents of the particular ribbon. The way I want to alter the ribbon, is by simply...
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Hardcore CRM: Dynamic provisioning – The man with the hammer
In my previous article, I thought I found the solution. I was able to export and import a ribbon definition. The only thing I needed to do was to alter the xml in order to display my desired buttons. A...
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