In the last days, I struggled with different challenges on the mailboxes. Therefore, I had to change different attributes on multiple mailboxes. A bulk-update via advanced find is only possible on the server profile.
Tag: Developer
Sender-attributes of e-mails
Fetching E-Mails from crm, there are multiple attributes. If you like to know, who has sent the mail, you need the attribute sender. This attributes contains the e-mail-address. But CRM also connects the sender with an account or contact, if the e-mail-address field is filled in with the mail address. In my post Connecting e-mails …
Plugin error with cryptic error message
Plugins are a common way to add functionality, especially in an on premise system, as there is missing the possibility for using the flows. I created such a plugin, which uses some of the localization methods, deployed the plugin to my development system and got the following error.
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Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.RetrieveLocLabelsResponse cannot be cast to [B]Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.RetrieveLocLabelsResponse. |
Reactivate of records calls onSave function
Today I tried to reactivate a lead in our crm system, but that failed with an error based on the checks in my onSave() function in my custom javascript. Therefore I was digging around and found out, that reactivating calls the onSave-function with additional information.
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.
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.
Removing unmanaged solutions via API
After some time, you will have multiple solutions in your CRM environment. In my case, there were multiple unmanaged solutions, as I have transferred many customizations between my test- and productive environment. Via the solution menu in the settings, you can delete unused solutions, but only one after each other. This consumes much time and …
Connecting e-mails with any entity in CRM
If you receive an e-mail in CRM, the system connects this e-mail with different entities. For example with the contact, which has set the mail address as the primary mail address. Also with the primary mail address of the account. But how to connect the e-mail with an entity like a special login entity for …
Translations in Dynamics CRM – Part III
Manage field translations programmatically is also possible and therefore useful as you might import your products from another system and therefore also want to import the translations via the import. Therefore, load the item, where you want to update or add your translation. Then you have to check, if the translation for your language already …
Qualifying Leads and how to prevent creating an account, contact or opportunity
The default process of qualifying a lead creates an opportunity, a contact and an account, if the fields are filled in. But how we can control, which entities are created?