MS CRM 2011 - Form Assistant

As we know that form assistant has been removed from MS CRM 2011 release. But it is available for very few special usages (such as Case and Service Activity).

MS CRM 2011 - Email Templates for Custom Entity not supported.

Adding the templates for the custom entity is not yet supported in the current 2011 release.

No BizTalk Adapter for CRM 2011

Recently, I got to know that there will be No Biztalk adapter for 2011.

The reason behind this is BizTalk Adapter for CRM 4.0 is being deprecated in favor of enabling the OOB BizTalk WCF adapter to work with CRM 2011's WCF endpoint for On-premised and  IFD deployments.

Dynamics CRM 2011 server is 64-bit only.

Just wanted to share this:

Dynamics CRM 2011 server is 64-bit only.

CRM 2011 client for Outlook is available in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

Windows XP SP3 supports CRM Online 2011 client for Outlook

You can have CRM Online 2011 Client for Outlook installed on Windows XP. But you should have SP3 installed on your system.

Loop through all elements on a CRM Form

Sometime we require to set all attributes on a form to disabled or checking which attribute has been changed.

To achieve this, you need to loop through each attribute of the CRM form. Below is the code snippet :


var iLen = crmForm.all.length;

for (i = 0; i < iLen; i++)
{
   o = crmForm.all[i];   switch (o.tagName)
   {
      case "INPUT":
      case "SELECT":
      case "TEXTAREA":
      case "IMG":
      case "IFRAME":
      if (o.id != "leadqualitycode")
      {
            o.disabled = true;
      }
      break;

      default:
            break;
   }
}

The above code will set all attributes to disabled.

Prevent CRM from saving a record.

The OnSave event is fired when a user presses the Save or Save and Close button on the form. The event is fired whether the data in the form has been modified or not.

Validating data is a common reason to use the OnSave event. The OnSave event can cancel the save operation before it is sent back to the server. To cancel the save operation, the script should return false as shown in the following code.

event.returnValue = false;

The SDK helps in this situation. Look at the following page for more information. MSDN SDK: OnSave Event

Quickest way to detect if internet connection is available.

Today I came across of this article on Microsoft site:

Ping Class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.ping.aspx
 
Very useful class to Allows an application to determine whether a remote computer is accessible over the network.

Hide ISV Button.

I needed to hide a button that I added to my form using the ISV.config file. IN ISV file you can specify the button to be display in create / update mode. You can have only one tag per entity.

Here is the requirement:
I have to display 5 ISV button in the form. Out of which 4 to be displayed in both Create and Update mode. But there is one button which has to be displayed only in Update Mode. If you use below XML line in ISV.config file

It will display all button in both mode. But there is no provision where i can specify some of the button in create and update mode.
So I've to hide the button using Client side scripting on Load of the form.

Below is the fucntion which hides the button:
// HIDE ISV Button
function HideISVButton(strButtonToolTip){
   var tag = document.getElementsByTagName("LI");
   for(x = 0; x < tag.length; x++)
   {
      if(tag[x].getAttribute("title") == strButtonToolTip)
      {
         button = document.getElementById(tag[x].getAttribute("id"));
         if(button != null)
            button.style.display = "none";
         x = tag.length;
      }
   }
}

// Call the function to hide the button:
HideISVButton("Click this button to Line Activate");

The above code loops through all objects on the webpage with a tag name of "LI" looking for one that has a title of ‘Click this button to Line Activate’ which is specified in the ISV.Config file. Once the code finds the correct ToolTip of a button, it gets hidden.

Online Demonstration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Lead Capture

Today I found a very good link for Online Demonstration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Lead Capture

Please click here to watch the video.