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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:30 PM

Field Events: FireOnChange

Almost two years ago, there was a tip published here about auto saving forms from a JScript OnChange event . While poking around the SDK tonight looking for something, I found a cool nugget. You can force the OnChange event to occur for a field from the
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Monday, April 28, 2008 3:21 PM

Business Data Catalog - Follow-up from Convergence

So I know that this way overdue. Way. After Convergence, I came back and went on vacation and then Beth was in the hospital for an unexpected week. There is a decent summation of the event from Brian Willson of the Microsoft Chemicals Team. http://blogs.msdn.com/chemicals/archive/2008/03/13/a-good-dynamics-crm-blog.aspx
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Attachment(s): bds-crmdb.zip
Monday, April 28, 2008 11:26 AM

Creating Phone Calls from Cases

One of the most often complaints I have heard is that CRM is sometimes too "Window" happy. In 4.0 the product team made some huge strides to make it less clicky. And they gave us some REALLY cool tools to do some of it ourselves. The new Workflow as a
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Attachment(s): PhoneCallWF.zip
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:35 PM

Upgrading from 90 Day Trial to Production Keys and having issues?

My basic rule of thumb is that if I get emailed twice about an issue, I blog about it. :-) So here is the blog post. :-) The basic scenario is this. The customer or partner downloads Microsoft CRM 90 Day Trail Keys from here . And then they select the
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Monday, April 14, 2008 10:27 AM

Demo Tips: Patch Tuesday!

So this should be a Demo 101 tip. If you are running your demos in a virtual environment like I do, make sure that your host machine gets all of it's patches BEFORE you launch your virtual machine in full screen. (What is Patch Tuesday?) Last week for
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