Firstly the article post below by the connector team was extremely useful, even if it took me a while to understand where they were putting the values because they didn’t have any screen shots. I hope the connector team write some more blog posts because the Dynamic Connector users need all the help and documentation… [Read more…]
April 17, 2012
Version 2 of the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics (I’m still not convinced about this name, it seems to long to me). has a great new piece of functionality. Filtering makes upgrading worthwhile alone. There are some other good things in V2 like the fact it installs the CRM solution for you, which means all you… [Read more…]
March 6, 2012
This is a quick blog post with two aims regarding the Dynamic Connector. The fist aim is to point you to an excellent resource for the connector. The blog written by Konstantin is one of the best blogs on the Dynamic Connector (CRM/NAV connector as I still sometimes call it) http://www.nav-connector.com/ He has some great blog… [Read more…]
March 2, 2012
I had a very frustrating last few hours, I was having a date format error with the connector. I was mapping Job to Contract and Job Planning Line to Contract Line. The Job to contract was working perfectly and the dates coming across without any problems, unless I had forgotten to a put a date… [Read more…]
February 23, 2012
I have had two very frustrating days wrestling with the connector or to call it by its proper name the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. I was trying to map Jobs to Contracts, this worked fine, a bit of tinkering to work out what values I needed to put into Contract template lookups but this is… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012
If you use the connector regularly you will eventually want to map a custom table which isn’t covered by the standard maps. To do this in CRM side is easy, you run the configuration utility and add the new entity but to do this in NAV requires a bit more work. The connector works (as… [Read more…]
February 20, 2012
Here is an excellent video from msdyncomm which runs through the new features in V2 of the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. This is an indepth video which is 23 minutes long and goes through some of the features in detail like the new filtering functionality (which is excellent by the way)
February 17, 2012
A very useful video to help anyone who is trying to install the CRM/NAV connector The connector installation has to be done in a certain order and if you turn the maps on in an incorrect order then you could receive hundreds or thousands of errors when maps try to run without the prerequisites maps… [Read more…]
January 25, 2012
The CRM/NAV connector always likes to keep me on my toes and today it achieved the feet but suddenly stopping working. One minute it’s working and the next minute none of the maps are running. So what happened. Looking at the logs (a NAV/CRM connector users best friend) I noticed there were some errors about… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Another day working with the CRM/NAV connector and another error. One of the frustrating aspects of the CRM/NAV connector is transferring the maps from one server to another (e.g. test to live). Almost every time I have tried to do this it hasn’t worked and I have had to copy all the maps by hand.… [Read more…]
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
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CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration
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CRM 4.0 Extending Microsoft Dynamics
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