Nishant Rana

Sample Code to add a custom button to a custom group in CRM 2011

Hi,

Following is the sample code to add a custom button to a custom group for a custom entity (new_test)

The button gets displayed only when the record is created.

We need to define Display Rule for that in Rule Definitions and use that rule within Command Defintion for the Button


<RibbonDiffXml>
  <CustomActions>
   <CustomAction Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.CustomAction" Location="Mscrm.Tabs._children" Sequence="40">
    <CommandUIDefinition>
     <Tab Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab" Command="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab" Title="My First Custom Tab" Description="Finally managed to put my first custom tab" Sequence="40">
      <Scaling Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.Scaling">
       <MaxSize Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.FirstGroup.MaxSize" GroupId="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.FirstGroup" Sequence="10" Size="LargeMedium"/>
      </Scaling>
      <Groups Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.Groups">
       <Group Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.FirstGroup" Command="Sample.Form.new_test.FirstGroup" Sequence="10" Title="Custom Group" Template="Mscrm.Templates.3.3">
        <Controls Id="Sample.Grid.new_test.CustomTab.FirstGroup.Controls">
         <Button Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab.FirstGroup.FirstButton" ToolTipTitle="My First Button Tool Tip" ToolTipDescription="My First Button Tool Tip Description" Command="Sample.Form.new_test.FirstButton" Sequence="10" LabelText="First Button" Alt="Alt First Button" TemplateAlias="o1"/>
        </Controls>
       </Group>
      </Groups>
     </Tab>
    </CommandUIDefinition>
   </CustomAction>
  </CustomActions>
  <Templates>
   <RibbonTemplates Id="Mscrm.Templates"/>
  </Templates>
  <CommandDefinitions>
   <CommandDefinition Id="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab">
    <EnableRules>
     <EnableRule Id="Mscrm.Enabled "/>
    </EnableRules>
    <DisplayRules>
     </DisplayRules>
    <Actions/>
   </CommandDefinition>
   <CommandDefinition Id="Sample.Form.new_test.FirstGroup">
    <EnableRules>
     <EnableRule Id="Mscrm.Enabled "/>
    </EnableRules>
    <DisplayRules>
     </DisplayRules>
    <Actions/>
   </CommandDefinition>
   <CommandDefinition Id="Sample.Form.new_test.FirstButton">
    <EnableRules>
     <EnableRule Id="Mscrm.Enabled "/>
    </EnableRules>
    <DisplayRules>
     <DisplayRule Id="Sample.new_test.form.FormStateNotNew.DisplayRule">
       </DisplayRule>
    </DisplayRules>
    <Actions>
     </Actions>
   </CommandDefinition>
  </CommandDefinitions>
  <RuleDefinitions>
   <TabDisplayRules>
    <TabDisplayRule TabCommand="Sample.Form.new_test.CustomTab">
     <EntityRule EntityName="new_test" Context="Form" AppliesTo="PrimaryEntity"/>
    </TabDisplayRule>
   </TabDisplayRules>
   <DisplayRules>
    <DisplayRule Id="Sample.new_test.form.FormStateNotNew.DisplayRule">
     <FormStateRule State="Create" InvertResult="true"/>
    </DisplayRule>
   </DisplayRules>
   <EnableRules/>
  </RuleDefinitions>
  <LocLabels/>
 </RibbonDiffXml>

Hope it helps !

Sample Code to add a custom tab to a custom entity in CRM 2011

Hi,

Customizing the Ribbon interface in CRM 2011 is not that easy, if we compare it to the ISV.CONFIG.

Here i am posting a sample xml file that we can use to create a custom tab within an entity.

Suppose the schema name of the entity is new_test, so use the following code to add a custom tab to it.

I am posting the RibbonDiffXml part

Hope it helps !

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Hi,

Got this error while working with WCF services in CRM 2011 from within a windows application.

Resolved it by installing Windows Identity Foundation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb9c345f-e830-40b8-a5fe-ae7a864c4d76&displaylang=en

Bye..

Get quotenumber (Quote ID) on PostCreate plugin

Hi,

I got the following comment on my blog.

“I wrote a plugin that creates a folder in SharePoint. It works just fine. However, I need to be able to use the quotenumber as the folder name. I am having problems figuring out how to retrieve that value. I am able to retrieve values of other fields, but the quote number is assigned when the record is saved. I am guessing that the quote number is not getting assigned until after the plugin is being called. I am not sure what to do. Any ideas?”

So i thought of trying it out. I created a Post Create plugin (synchronous) against quote entity. Than wrote code to retrieve the value for quotenumber from the inputparameters property bag. As it was create event i thought the value must be there for it. However i saw that the quotenumber property is not being passed as a part of inputparameters.

So than I used ForceSubmit method to get its value. However this time i was getting blank value. Than tried by registering the post entity image, but was still getting the blank value.

Finally i tried by registering the plugin in child pipeline, and to my surprise the value was there for the quotenumber attribute.

So to get the quotenumber we need to register our plugin in post create and childpipeline. ( no need of ForceSubmit method or PostEntityImage)

I hope it helps !

Bye.

Know more about Visual Studio 2010

Hi,

Check out these wonderful posts !

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/25/vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx

http://scottcate.com/tricks/

Bye..

Passing Reference Type by Reference

Suppose this is our class Person, having an string property name FullName.

        class Person
        {
            public string FullName { get; set; }

}

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            UnderstandingPassbyValandRef();
        }

        private void UnderstandingPassbyValandRef()
        {
            Person myPOriginal = new Person();
            myPOriginal.FullName = "Nishant Rana";

            PassByValue(myPOriginal);
            MessageBox.Show(myPOriginal.FullName);
            // Output : “Nishant Rana PassByVal”

            PassByRef(ref myPOriginal);
            MessageBox.Show(myPOriginal.FullName);
            // Output : “Srihari Radhakrishnan”

            this.Close();
        }

Here copy of the reference, which points to myPOriginal is passed to the method.So it is possible for the method to change the contents of Person.
However by using the new operator inside the method makes the variable pVal reference a new Person object. Thus any changes after that will not affect the orignal person myPOriginal object.
private void PassByValue(Person pVal)
        {
            pVal.FullName = "Nishant Rana PassByVal";
            pVal = new Person();
            pVal.FullName = "Arvind Singh";
        }

Here actual reference is passed to the method.
All of the changes that take place inside the method affect the original person object.
private void PassByRef(ref Person pRef)
        {
            pRef.FullName = "Nishant Rana PassByRef";
            pRef = new Person();
            pRef.FullName = "Srihari Radhakrishnan";
        }