Category Archives: MS CRM 2015

Implementing Reason for Delete in D365 CE

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Requirement In Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE), managing data is crucial for maintaining a clean and efficient database. When we delete records, out of the box auditing feature can help to see audit information of the deleted record but what if we want to see the reason why this record was deleted?. With a simple customization, we can implement this… Read more »

An attribute with the specified name already exists

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Introduction We know there are many out of the box fields created when we create a custom entity, but do you know when you create specific data type fields, some hidden fields are created using the field name. Today we are going to discuss that. Details Let say we need to create two fields first one “Location” in my entity… Read more »

Duplicate lookup reference was found -{Quick Tip}

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Introduction While importing data into Dynamics 365 with lookup fields, sometime we get duplicate reference found error, if you are getting same error then here is the quick tip for you . Details While we are importing data into Dynamics 365 CE with lookup field, Dynamics try to relate lookup records based on the primary field name by default. So… Read more »

Create Order Button is Missing on Quote Dynamics 365 CE

Introduction Recently faced one issue where Create Order button was missing from Quote entity form in one of the sandbox environment, I am going to provide step here how I fixed it. Details When we faced this issue in Sandbox environment, first thing I checked if it is available in production or not, and it was there, next thing I… Read more »

Make sure to keep primary field in Lookup view – UCI

Problem Recently faced one issue where lookup control was showing as “No Name”, so we are going to discuss steps to solved it. Solution When I saw this issue, first thing I checked primary field in the parent entity if it contains data or not, but it was not blank. Another strange thing I noticed, as soon as I saved… Read more »

Calling Entity bound Actions using Xrm.Web API with Entity Collection

Requirement In this article we are going to discuss about calling entity bound action which have entity collection as parameter, we need to created this parameter from array list, while sending entity collection we need to send customer lookup as well, so let’s see how we can do that. Details Earlier, we discussed about calling out of the box actions… Read more »

Overriding out of box command button behavior – Step by Step UCI

Requirement: Sometime back we published a post for overriding out of the box command button behavior which works fine for the web client but one of our blog reader reported through twitter (Power of Social media ) that this customization is not working with UCI, so I thought of re-writing the same for the UCI. Details: Let’s see how we… Read more »

Downloading Notes Attachments using Paging

Introduction This article is about downloading Notes attachment from Dyanmics 365. If you have large number of records from where you want to download attachment, you can face different issues like timeout, slow downloading etc. Here I am going to provide sample code which you can use to download attachments from small set of data. Details To download attachment from… Read more »

Bulk Deletion Job Canceled Automatically – {Quick Tip}

Introduction Dynamics 365 allows us to delete our data in bulk. We can define query to select target data which we want to delete. We can also schedule if require and configure notification by providing email, which is used to send notification once bulk job is completed. If you are new to bulk deletion job then you can check this… Read more »

Working with Dynamics 365 Portals- Webinar

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Are just started working with Dynamics 365 Portals and have many questions in your mind related to customizing Dynamics 365 Portals and extending it’s capability ?? if yes, join on Webinar where we will be discussing following topics Quick Overview of Dynamics 365 Portals We will start with quick view of Dynamics 365 Portals and why you need them. Setup… Read more »