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Creating Email through Plugin / SDK in CRM 4 - line breaks don't work

You may have noticed when you create email using a sample code like below in a plugin or for that matter any other SDK based assembley for MS CRM. Your line breaks : \n or \r or System.Environment.NewLine will not work. email Email = new email(); Email.to = new activityparty[] { toParty }; Email.from = new activityparty[] { fromParty }; Email.regardingobjectid = regardingObject; Email.subject = "Hello!!"; Email.description = "Dear, line 1" + System.Environment.NewLine+ "my message for your - line 2"; Email.directioncode = new CrmBoolean(); Email.directioncode.Value = true; Guid _emailId = _service.Create(Email); SendEmailRequest sendEmailReq

Cancel Workflow job programmatically - CRM v.4

How many times you had to created a workflow on some date like Due date which keeps changing as per client's request. While this may sound simple in business, on CRM you have a workflow that may be waiting till this date and send a reminder exactly a week before. So you need to keep calling this workflow every time the date is updated, to make the matters more complicated, all the previous jobs that had initiated due to past modification will keep running and chasing that date which is never going to occur. What you do now, manually cancel those to save system resources and stop the never ending system jobs. There is a way to do it through SDK, in my case I call this function as a custom workflow activity in the first step of the workflow which Cancels any previous jobs of this workflow. #region Cancel My WFs QueryExpression qe = new QueryExpression(); qe.EntityName = EntityName.asyncoperation.ToString(); ColumnSet cs = new

Xrm.Page reference

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328399.aspx

MS CRM from Chrome - 2

In continuation with the last post, you can access Microsoft CRM, for that matter IE from Chrome using this link, it's much better and will work with Mozilla and Safari as well I guess http://app.cloudinternetexplorer.com/

MS CRM from Chrome

Open MS CRM in Chrome using this chrome app With this tiny app you can open and use MS CRM in google Chrome, all you need to do is install this app https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/miedgcmlgpmdagojnnbemlkgidepfjfi Then in new Chrome tab click on the blue IE icon on right side whichi will open site in IE mode from Chrome and then write your CRM url, enjoy CRM with Chrome, like Browney and Chocolate ! I have also observed though any new window like a record or customisations views will eventually pop up IE windows but you can still browse the main page of CRM in Chrome As you can see below, I have applied some fancy theme to my Chrome to make it more believable that its actually MS CRM in google chrome browser :

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Role Based Forms

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Role Based Forms (Courtesy : http://www.powerobjects.com/blog/2010/12/07/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-role-based-forms/) Another exciting new feature in CRM 2011, is the ability to have different forms for different security roles. For Example: You may want the Account form show different fields, for different security roles to maximize the important information that is displayed for each role. Each Entity has two forms created by default: A “Main” Form and a “Mobile” Form. (Mobile Express) By Default, the “Main” form is set so that all security rolls use this form whenever they access the Entity. However, with a few minor changes, additional Forms can be created to Rearrange/Add or Remove Information to maximize productivity for different users in CRM. Let’s take a look at the Account Form.... Read More