Category: Dynamics CRM

Browser URL schemes

January 29, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

Today I had a very specific requirement. Using the resco mobile app on iOS and android, I had to open a dynamic generated URL in a specific browser on the client. To solve the problem, I created a command in resco and added the button to the form (straight forward). But if you click the button, …

Dynamics CRM

Feature Requests in Dynamics

January 11, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

Everybody was already thinking of a feature, which is missing in CRM. But how can you tell Microsoft, to add this feature?

Customization, Dynamics CRM, Solutions

The label ‘Tab’, id: ‘…’ already exists. Supply unique labelid values.

January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

I had to transfer some forms of our test environment to our productive environment and therefore, I created a solution. In this solution all forms, fields and related items where added. I exported the solution and tried to import it to our productive system. But the import stopped and throw the error “The label ‘Tab’, …

Customization, Development, Dynamics CRM

Stop sending appointment-invitation to attendees

January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

Based on my previous post, CRM is sending appointments automatically to the attendees. But what if you don’t want CRM to send this appointments? The system itself has no option, to disable this behavior, but there is a workaround. This is not just configurable in CRM but also on Exchange.

Customization, Dynamics CRM

Creating appointments, which are sent as invitation to attendees

January 3, 2019January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

Creating and tracking appointments to Dynamics CRM is one of the base functions to keep all information per account and contact at one place. Therefore all appointments with a customer should be created or tracked to CRM. But be careful with this approach. As soon as you create an appointment in CRM, this appointment will …

Customization, Development, Dynamics CRM

Hide or remove unused business process flows.

January 2, 2019January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

There are some default “business process flows” in CRM. After a new installation or upgrade of Dynamics CRM and installation of the current version of FieldService, you will find some default business process flows. If you want to hide or delete this, just keep reading.

Dynamics CRM, Server-Side-Synchronization

Synchronization state data is corrupt or otherwise invalid

December 21, 2018January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

If you get an Unhandled Exception in your mailbox profile alerts, but no real information, where it comes from, then this post will help you.

Customization, Dynamics CRM

Quick create not opening from subgrid

October 11, 2018January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

I created a new custom entity and added a subgrid of this new entity to my account entity. Clicking the Plus in the right, upper corner the system opens a new line with a magnifying glass (like it shows in the screen below) instead of the quick create flowing from the top.

Customization, Dynamics CRM, Field Service

Checking the status of the imports jobs

October 3, 2018January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

Today I tried to import the field service solution to my vanilla organization on an on premise system. I started the PackageDeployer and followed the instructions and then, the import started and the circle was running. After some time I thought, that the import might have failed, because there was no progress.

Customization, Dynamics CRM

Error during exporting default solution

October 3, 2018January 6, 2019 | by Michael Mittermair

I tried to export the whole default solution with all customizations of our testing environment. After 5 Minutes, the export stops with an error message, but no details. Digging in the logs I found an error, which is telling me, that the process was running into a timeout:

>MSCRM Error Report:
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Error: Request timed out.

Error Message: Request timed out.

Error Details: Request timed out.

Source File: Not available

Line Number: Not available

Request URL: https://crm/CRM/_grid/cmds/dlg_exportsolution.aspx?appSolutionId=%7bFD140AAF-4DF4-11DD-BD17-0019B9312238%7d&command=exportsolution&ismanaged=0&optionxml=%3csettings%3e%3cexportAutoNumber%3efalse%3c%2fexportAutoNumber%3e%3cexportCalendar%3efalse%3c%2fexportCalendar%3e%3cexportCustomization%3efalse%3c%2fexportCustomization%3e%3cexportEmailTracking%3efalse%3c%2fexportEmailTracking%3e%3cexportGeneral%3efalse%3c%2fexportGeneral%3e%3cexportMarketing%3efalse%3c%2fexportMarketing%3e%3cexportOutlookSynchronization%3efalse%3c%2fexportOutlookSynchronization%3e%3cexportRelationshipRole%3efalse%3c%2fexportRelationshipRole%3e%3cexportSales%3efalse%3c%2fexportSales%3e%3cexportExternalApplications%3efalse%3c%2fexportExternalApplications%3e%3cexportIsvConfig%3efalse%3c%2fexportIsvConfig%3e%3c%2fsettings%3e

>MSCRM Error Report:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Error: Request timed out.

Error Message: Request timed out.

Error Details: Request timed out.

Source File: Not available

Line Number: Not available

Request URL: https://crm/CRM/_grid/cmds/dlg_exportsolution.aspx?appSolutionId=%7bFD140AAF-4DF4-11DD-BD17-0019B9312238%7d&command=exportsolution&ismanaged=0&optionxml=%3csettings%3e%3cexportAutoNumber%3efalse%3c%2fexportAutoNumber%3e%3cexportCalendar%3efalse%3c%2fexportCalendar%3e%3cexportCustomization%3efalse%3c%2fexportCustomization%3e%3cexportEmailTracking%3efalse%3c%2fexportEmailTracking%3e%3cexportGeneral%3efalse%3c%2fexportGeneral%3e%3cexportMarketing%3efalse%3c%2fexportMarketing%3e%3cexportOutlookSynchronization%3efalse%3c%2fexportOutlookSynchronization%3e%3cexportRelationshipRole%3efalse%3c%2fexportRelationshipRole%3e%3cexportSales%3efalse%3c%2fexportSales%3e%3cexportExternalApplications%3efalse%3c%2fexportExternalApplications%3e%3cexportIsvConfig%3efalse%3c%2fexportIsvConfig%3e%3c%2fsettings%3e

Browser URL schemes
Today I had a very specific requirement. Using the resco mobile app on iOS and android, I had to open a dynamic generated URL in a specific browser on the client. To solve the problem, I created a command in resco and added the button to the form (straight forward). But if you click the button, […]
Feature Requests in Dynamics
Everybody was already thinking of a feature, which is missing in CRM. But how can you tell Microsoft, to add this feature? The first possibility is, to talk to your Microsoft Key Account Manager. They can forward this information to the product group. Another possibility is, to create a Microsoft Premiere Case. This will be […]
The label ‘Tab’, id: ‘…’ already exists. Supply unique labelid values.
I had to transfer some forms of our test environment to our productive environment and therefore, I created a solution. In this solution all forms, fields and related items where added. I exported the solution and tried to import it to our productive system. But the import stopped and throw the error “The label ‘Tab’, […]
Stop sending appointment-invitation to attendees
Based on my previous post, CRM is sending appointments automatically to the attendees. But what if you don’t want CRM to send this appointments? The system itself has no option, to disable this behavior, but there is a workaround. This is not just configurable in CRM but also on Exchange. How is this working: Add […]
Creating appointments, which are sent as invitation to attendees
Creating and tracking appointments to Dynamics CRM is one of the base functions to keep all information per account and contact at one place. Therefore all appointments with a customer should be created or tracked to CRM. But be careful with this approach. As soon as you create an appointment in CRM, this appointment will […]
Hide or remove unused business process flows.
There are some default “business process flows” in CRM. After a new installation or upgrade of Dynamics CRM and installation of the current version of FieldService, you will find some default business process flows. If you want to hide or delete this, just keep reading. While creating a new Case, you can see these new process […]
Synchronization state data is corrupt or otherwise invalid
If you get an Unhandled Exception in your mailbox profile alerts, but no real information, where it comes from, then this post will help you. I got the following alert in my mailbox: [crayon-5c6a75e781abd014778782/] I enabled the tracing on the backend server and also checked the log in the database and found the following: [crayon-5c6a75e781ac5181540973/] […]
Quick create not opening from subgrid
I created a new custom entity and added a subgrid of this new entity to my account entity. Clicking the Plus in the right, upper corner the system opens a new line with a magnifying glass (like it shows in the screen below) instead of the quick create flowing from the top. But I’d like […]
Checking the status of the imports jobs
Today I tried to import the field service solution to my vanilla organization on an on premise system. I started the PackageDeployer and followed the instructions and then, the import started and the circle was running. After some time I thought, that the import might have failed, because there was no progress. Searching the web […]
Error during exporting default solution
I tried to export the whole default solution with all customizations of our testing environment. After 5 Minutes, the export stops with an error message, but no details. Digging in the logs I found an error, which is telling me, that the process was running into a timeout: [crayon-5c6a75e782c33190855116/] Google finds multiple entries about extending […]