Nishant Rana

The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.Crm.LocatorService’ threw an exception. Input string was not in correct format in CRM 4

Hi ,

Was getting the error while trying to install CRM 4.0.

The following is the kb article for the same

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949092
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956/

Tried first by repairing/reinstalling dotnet framework 3.0, however the error was not resolved.

Than tried the second method of rebuilding the performance counter, and that worked !!

Bye..

Sort SPFolder in SharePoint

We developed a web part showing the folders hierarchy using tree view control. However the folders were not getting displayed in the tree view node in the order they are visible inside the document library i.e. sorted on name.

Creating a tree view

http://www.davehunter.co.uk/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f0e16a1a-6fa9-4130-bcab-baeb97ccc4ff&ID=115

So finally used the following code to sort the folders

List<SPFolder> folderList = new List<SPFolder>();

foreach (SPFolder myFolder in folder.SubFolders){

folderList.Add(myFolder);

}

folderList.Sort(delegate(SPFolder p1, SPFolder p2) { return p1.Name.CompareTo(p2.Name); });

For more information on sorting

http://www.developerfusion.com/code/5513/sorting-and-searching-using-c-lists/

Bye..

Important urls in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 for quick reference

Hi,

While browsing got this information, so thought better share it

Services – http://server:port/orgname/_root/homepage.aspx?etc=4001
Advanced Find – http://server:port/orgname/AdvancedFind/AdvFind.aspx

CRM Help – http://server:port/orgname/help/default.aspx

Customization Menu – http://server:port/orgname/tools/systemcustomization/systemcustomization.aspx
Entity Customization DataGrid – http://server:port/orgname/tools/systemcustomization/systemcustomization.aspx?PID=01
Import Customizations – http://server:port/orgname/tools/systemcustomization/systemcustomization.aspx?PID=03
Export Customizations – http://server:port/orgname/tools/systemcustomization/systemcustomization.aspx?PID=03

Thanks to Douglas Leung !

http://sharepointsix.blogspot.com/2007/06/microsoft-crm-30-integrating-crm-into.html

Bye…

Dynamic Values in Workflow in CRM 4

We were facing an issue today; the issue was something like this

We were sending mail in one of our workflow, in the to field of the workflow we had set multiple users name as dynamic values. But we found that mail was being sent to only one user, i.e. the first user only.

Than we found out that if we add multiple values in Look For dialog box and click on ok to add all those together, only the first field having value would be picked by workflow.

For e.g. if I add (created by), (manager of the user field) in the look for dialog box and click on ok to add them together, the workflow would only pick the value for first field i.e. (created by) field for which value exists. It would ignore the manager of the user field.

However if we add them separately i.e. first add (created by) field and then look for (manager of the user field) and add that field than we could have values for both the field.

Bye…