Custom pages and Relative URL’s in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4


As suggested my Microsoft we would be deploying our custom pages in ISV folder within CRM’s virtual directory i.e. CRMWEB.

Now within our site map or isv.config if we are referring to the page using relative url

i.e. /ISV/HelloWorld.aspx, what CRM would do is append Organization Name to the url.

Now as long it is an aspx page, things would be fine. However if it is an html page we would get “Page not found error”. And for html page we need to use Absolute url, for them to work fine! 

Check out this url as well

Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM URLs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc905759.aspx

And this thread as well

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/crmdevelopment/thread/1e882967-002f-4621-ba14-0f7e3744c323 

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Showing Scrollbar for Custom Pages in CRM


Hi,

We wanted to add a default home page to CRM web application. So for that added the following SubArea element in the SiteMap.

<SubArea Id=”nav_home” ResourceId=”Homepage_Home” Title=”Glossary” Icon=”/_imgs/area/18_home.gif” Url=”http://localhost:5555/CRMGlossaryFramePage.htm&#8221; Client=”Web” Description=”CRM Glossary” />

However the problem we were facing was that the page being too long, but still the scrollbars were missing.

Finally found this post that solved the problem.

http://eastoceantechnical.blogspot.com/2008/08/show-scrollbar-on-mscrm-titan-for_24.html

The solution was to point to a page having an iframe and making that iframe to point to the original page !

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The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit


Check out this wonderful tool

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/E2DevTkt

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The ConditonOperator.Equal requires 1 value, not 0.


This error is recieved when for ConditionExpression, we would have set

AttributeName, Operator properties but haven’t set Values property.

The below code would result in the ConditonOperator.Equal requires 1 value, not 0 error.

ConditionExpression myCon = new ConditionExpression();
myCon.AttributeName = “createdbyname”;
myCon.Operator = ConditionOperator.Equal;
//line commented for reproducing error
//myCon.Values = new object[] { “username” };

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Understanding LookUp In CRM


Hi find out this nice post about LookUp by JimWang.

http://jianwang.blogspot.com/2008/05/mysterious-crm-lookup-i.html

Do Check it ..

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Error 0x80041110 QueryByAttribute must specify a non-empty attribute array in CRM


This error occurs when using the QueryByAttribute class we are not setting the Attributes and Values Property.

 

Just like the below code

 

Say we want to have the names of all the accounts,

 

ColumnSet myCols=new ColumnSet();

            myCols.Attributes=new string[] {“name”};

   QueryByAttribute myQA = new QueryByAttribute();

            myQA.EntityName = EntityName.account.ToString();

            myQA.ColumnSet = myCols ;           

            BusinessEntityCollection myBCColl2= myService.RetrieveMultiple(myQA);

 

However we will get error in this case because we haven’t specified Attributes and Values property. So we need to specify those properties.

 

            myQA.Attributes = new String[] { “statuscode” };

            myQA.Values=new object[] {“1”};

 

Otherwise we could use QueryByExpression class for that

 

            ColumnSet myCols=new ColumnSet();

            myCols.Attributes=new string[] {“name”};

 

            QueryExpression myQE = new QueryExpression();

            myQE.EntityName = EntityName.account.ToString();

            myQE.ColumnSet = myCols;

 

            BusinessEntityCollection myBCColl1 = myService.RetrieveMultiple(myQE);

 

 

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