When Tanguy the CRM Tool guy creates a new tool, it’s time to down load the new XRMToolBox and see what new toys he has created for us to play with. You can read about it on his latest blog post .
I like the way someone mentions they would like to do something and POW the next moment Tanguy has created a tool to do just that, he lives to give.
In this blog post I am letting people know Tanguy has a new tool out and giving it a test drive so you can see what it does, so you can see if you want to use it. I have also done a video review which you can see here
Hosk CRM Dev review CRM 2013 tool – Plugin and Workflow Synchronous events execution order editor
This tool is really only of interest to developers, although it does have some use as informational tool to other users but it’s primary use is to allow the CRM developer to see and easily change the order of synchronous plugins and workflows. The real bonus is it show the order of worflows next to Plugins, so you can see the whole picture of what is happening on the trigger of a CRM message/event for a particular entity.
This new Tool is interesting and useful for projects where you have a lot of plugins, particularly entities with lots of plugins being triggered on the same message.
To use it you fire up the XRMToolbox
add a connection. If you are using a CRM 2013 trial select Use Office 365 because I found that when I tried to using the Use CRM Online I couldn’t connect
Once you have your connection done, you will then a see a list of all the great tools. Today we are going to click on Synchronous events execution order editor. Clicking this will open a new tab with the tool details. This is useful because it means you can open multiple tools at once
You then need to press the load events button, this will load the SDK Messages and then you can see what plugins are running the rank.
You can edit the rank (which is the order the plugins will run) and then press the apply update(s) button to save this.
Not only is the tool useful for changing the rank but it’s also an easy and quick way to view what plugins you have running. When you look at your current system you will notice there are a lot of activity feed plugins running.
Good work Tanguy, keep up the good work.
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