by Phil Adams
21. August 2009 16:26
In my Article CRM v4 Client AutoUpdate Procedure, I talked about deploying the required registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSCRMClient\AutoUpdateDownloadUrl (for 32bit) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MSCRMClient\AutoUpdateDownloadUrl (for 64bit) This can eit...
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by Phil Adams
21. August 2009 15:21
A new feature in CRM 4.0 is the administrative ability to prompt clients to install patches on their CRM For Outlook client. This feature is called AutoUpdate and it applies to any client where the user has administrative rights on his/her machine. When you install the CRM 4.0 client, one of ...
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by Phil Adams
16. August 2009 20:39
The email templates in MS CRM can be leveraged as a powerful building block when generating emails programmatically. Tips: Generate your HTML in another editor and then paste it into the template editor to add data slugs. Associate your template with the entity that you w...
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by Phil Adams
16. August 2009 20:37
If you write custom web applications in iframes that depend on the data in the parent form, it is important to run on up to date information to avoid user confusion. Important! This requires that the Restrict cross-frame scripting box for your iframe is NOT checked. Accessing at...
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by Phil Adams
16. August 2009 20:34
Below is a Generic SSRS web service reporting method that generates a byte[] perfect for use in an annotation or email attachment. The example method above it shows how to call this method and how to create an annotation attachment. You can combine this with my post on driving email te...
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by Phil Adams
14. August 2009 14:20
Javascript Snippets for Working with Grids in CRM Here are a few useful examples of getting some data from the grid in CRM. I’ve used these in my ISV.config customizations in order to grab certain data that i want to pass to my custom pages. For the most part, a lot of this stuff gets ...
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by Phil Adams
12. August 2009 12:45
Some clients experiencing delays when switching from one entity view to another eg organisations > contacts topics > projects. this fix worked on CRM3 - tried on CRM4 and seems to work as well. comes from: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.crm/browse_thread/thre...
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by Phil Adams
11. August 2009 13:30
On-Mouse-Over Custom Tool Tips Ever want to give users more information into what they should enter into a field? You can either make the label of a given field really long, put a field in a section on it's own, and write the description out in the section title, or you could use scrip...
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by Phil Adams
10. August 2009 11:55
I'm all about using CRM more efficiently and if I can limit my time going from mouse to keyboard I'm much happier. Here are some keyboard shortcuts that I found to be really useful: From any CRM Form you may use: Save - CTRL + S Save and Close - ALT + S Save and New - CTRL + SHIFT + S...
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by Phil Adams
10. August 2009 11:06
Ever want to give users more information into what they should enter into a field? You can either make the label of a given field really long, put a field in a section on it's own, and write the description out in the section title, or you could use scripts to override the tool tip of the field. Her...
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