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CRM 2011 – free Javascript Mapping Add-on

April 27, 2011

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A great tool added to codeplex this week, CRM 2011 Javascript mapping http://crmmapping.codeplex.com/ It provides free and basic mapping using Microsoft Bing (of course).  What I really like about this project is it also has instructions on how to add this to the Ribbon and uses only javascript. The person we all have to thank […]

CRM 2011 – Visual Studio Plugin Templates

April 27, 2011

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Excellent blog post from someone who sounds like Pob but is actually Pogo69, he may have an unusual name but his blog is excellent. he has published some Visual Studio templates for CRM 2011 and you can read about it here Here are the links and installations instructions from his blog The Templates Custom Workflow […]

CRM 2011 – Reports – removing lines if blank for address

April 27, 2011

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I had a tricky problem of adding an address to a report.  The address had the usual address 1 address 2 city county etc The problem was a lot of the addresses didn’t have a value for address 2 and it was leaving a nasty look blank row on my report.  So I asked one […]

New Prices for Microsoft Certifications Exams from July 1st 2011

April 26, 2011

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I got an email today from Microsoft, I say I got an email, me and thousands of others saying they had some important news, they were going to increase the cost of their exams. This is a bit cheeky and a clever move from Microsoft.  Earlier this year they increase the number of certified people […]

CRM 2011 – Video – How to apply field level security

April 26, 2011

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A nice quick video on how to apply field level security.  This is one of the more useful features in CRM 2011 and can save you a great deal of javascript

CRM 2011 – Partner source Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Training Materials

April 26, 2011

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I found a good blog last week called thinkcrm.  It’s quite a new CRM blog but the articles it has on the blog I found very interesting. It had the main contents of this blog post with the training materials but it also had these good posts Spell checking in CRM 2011 changes to on […]

CRM 2011 – A collection of White Papers, Brochures and Datasheets

April 26, 2011

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I found a site with a very similar name to this blog   http://www.thecrmbusiness.com/crmresources.html Whilst I was looking for details about the latest CRM rollup, I stumbled upon this site. It lists all the rollups for CRM 4 and CRM 2011 which is useful and it also had a section which had a collection of […]

CRM 2011 – Video – How To Create Dialogs

April 22, 2011

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I saw this video on how to create dialogs and thought I would put it on the blog.  Dialogs are extremely useful in CRM 2011, they allow you to run a workflow but with the bonus of getting some interaction from the users and presenting them with options to choose etc. if you haven’t used […]

Microsoft adds inactive date to transcripts and certificates

April 21, 2011

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I have to admit sometimes Microsoft changes things seemingly just for the hell of it and these changes are sometimes plain wrong and illogical. Today Microsoft proudly announces its going to add the words inactive to peoples certificates if they are in a technology which Microsoft no longer supports.  It seems a pointless thing to […]

CRM 2011 – Dialogs can’t store Dates!

April 21, 2011

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So we writing a dialog this week in CRM 2011, fantastic stuff, it has some great features allow you to show pick lists of options and getting the user to select one. but it also has some major weaknesses like the fact you can’t store dates in Dialog, you also can’t store Bit, Date, Lookups […]