Category Archives: MS CRM 2015

Relabeling Composite Control Fields

We can change display name of the entity fields easily by editing field display name property. But we can’t change fields label used in address composite controls. In this post we are demonstrating how to relabel composite control fields. Requirement:Relabel city field in address composite control in account entity. Note: You can’t change field logical name once it is created. Solution:… Read more »

Rearrange Existing Command/Ribbon Buttons in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Did you ever get requirement to rearrange existing buttons, there was one question today in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community Forum where user wanted to rearrange existing buttons so thought of writing a quick post so that it can help others. Requirement :Rearrange existing command or ribbon button for entity in CRM, Let’s say we want to rearrange buttons on Activities, so… Read more »

Using Actions in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015

There was one question today in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community Forum, where user was looking for the information about what is the use of Entity input parameter in Actions, so thought of writing a post, so that it can help others. About Actions: Microsoft Dynamics CRM actions allows us to define our own custom events/messages, similar to existing standard events like Create,update,delete. Actions… Read more »

Using Upsert in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1

Another useful feature that is introduced in Dynamics CRM 2015 update 1 is, support for upsert operation. Upsert allows us to create or update record in CRM in single call, so we don’t need to bother if there is any existing record with the same keys or combination of other fields. This is specially useful in case of integration, when… Read more »

Using Alternate key to update entity record- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1

If you have worked on integrating CRM with another system like ERP, you might have maintained different keys for your ERP records for the synchronization purpose. But now you don’t need to do that any more !! Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1 introduced new feature which allows us to assign alternate unique keys to entity which can help us to… Read more »

Improved update method –Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1 released some new features that will be very help for developers. In this post we will discuss new improvement in Update method. In earlier version we had different request for the special operations for example AssignRequest for changing owner once record is created, SetStateRequest to change the status of entity record. But now with… Read more »

Overriding out of box command button behavior – Step by Step

Did you get a requirement to override a system ribbon or command button?? If yes then this blog post going to help you to implement your requirement. Requirement: Let’s say we have requirement to prompt user before saving the record and based on select we need to save or cancel save operation. Solution: We can create a custom button to… Read more »

Calling Java Script on click of command button MS CRM 2015 – Step by Step

In this blog we will provide step by step process to call your java script function from command button. We are using RibbonWorkbench editor to create command button. You can download RibbonWorkbench tool from here and import it your crm organization by navigating Settings->Solutions->Import. Let’s first add our demo java script function, use following steps: Create a solution by navigating Settings->Solutions->New and using following… Read more »

Creating html web resource to show image attached in Notes Part 2

In our previous post we explained how we can get image from notes using OData endpoints, in this post we are going to explain how we can create html web resource and use our java script method to get and display image. We need to implement two steps:   Create html page   Deploy html page and SDK.REST.js using web resource Create html page Create… Read more »

Creating html web resource to show image attached in Notes Part 1

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 introduced new entity image feature, so we can have one image attribute and can use that to store entity image. But we can have only one image attribute per entity. So in this article we are going to demonstrate how we can build an image slider using the java script. Microsoft Dynamics CRM store all the… Read more »