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Searching across entities is a great feature. I built a web application that integrates with CRM Online to do this. You can enter a phone number, a last name, an account name , or opportunity topic and the application searches for the results. It will
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Have you imported the CRM Sample Data (YES, it works with CRM Online) and tried to add products to an opportunity? Nothing there! You look and see the products have been imported but notice the warning: There are 295 products added as a part of the sample
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In Microsoft Dynamics CRM there is a feature to automatically set the Do Not Email flag for a contact if the click on an Unsubscribe link in a CRM generated email. In order to enable this functionality, navigate to Settings > Administration > System
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In the first blog on using Fetch XML , I introduced a tool that I had created that would allow you to execute Fetch XML statements to retrieve CRM data. In this blog, I want to discuss some of the inner workings to executing Fetch XML statements to retrieve
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I recently had the need to add hierarchical state and country picklists to a custom entity. I had configured these fields in another entity and moved them to my new entity following the process in my previous post . I should point out that global picklists
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NOTE: THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED MEANS OF CUSTOMIZING THE ENTITY. I WILL INVESTIGATE A SUPPORTED SCENARIO AND MODIFY THIS POST. I have been asked many times, “If I customize this entity can I simply copy the attributes to another entity or do I need to create
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Building Custom dashboards for Dynamics CRM Online is not as complex of an effort that it's reputation has gotten. It does require some developer skills and this blog will be a great launching pad for you to build your own. Here's a screen shot of a dashboard
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NOTE: The information presented below is NOT in the SDK currently available for download or online . This update was posted on the Microsoft CRM Development Forum on April 7th. The following updated information applies to version 4.0.8 of the Microsoft
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I created a tool using Visual Studio and the CRM web services that can execute a saved query and then email the results as a CSV file. I've presented in a video at www.democrmonline.com/reportscheduler . There is also sample code at Report Scheduler Sample
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The Microsoft CRM workflow functionality provides very flexible tools to model automated process. A prime example of automated process is assigning a Lead to a particular Sales Representative based on certain criteria. In this post I will provide an overview
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Adding documentation management services to Dynamics CRM Online is fairly simple customization that can really enhance your CRM Online application. By modifying the site map, you can add links and references to other web applications. The user can use
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Similar to my recent posts about the On-Premise Accelerators for Extended Sales Forecasting and Event Management , the eService Accelerator contains some customizations that may be useful to import to CRM Online. Unfortunately, the main value-add of the
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The Event Management accelerator gives organizations the ability to manage the planning, execution, tracking and reporting requirements for event campaigns. Designed for CRM 4.0 On-Premise , the installation includes customizations, workflows, plug-ins,
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With workflow you can easily calculate the total duration of all completed activities rolled up to a main record such as an Account, Contact or Opportunity. This functionality is built into the service module, but for organizations that track number of
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The Extended Sales Forecasting Accelerator for CRM contains two main components to import: 1) a customization .xml file including custom entities, security roles and workflows, and 2) two custom report .rdl files to import. CRM Online does not allow
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