Category: Microsoft Dynamics 365

Plugin on Retrieve and Retrieve Multiple – How bad is it?


Nice article

salimadamon's avatarSalim Adamon - Dynamics 365 Blog

I have managed to be in the Dynamics CRM/365 world for over 7 years without having to write a single plugin on Retrieve and Retrieve Multiple. The recommendation that I give is to stay away from those. The reason is simple, it sounds horrible from a performance standpoint, and even people from Microsoft have recommended against it in many scenarios. Faced with an issue recently where we had to really consider it, I did some research and testing to try to measure the impact of such plugins on system performance. This article provides some background as to why we recommend against these types of plugins, and it also provides some of our finding after we tested for performance.

Why are Plugins on Retrieve Multiple scary?

When looking at the event execution pipeline for Dynamics CRM/365, we need to consider that there are a lot of steps involved as part of…

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Not able to register Image for Plugin in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit (Public Beta 1)


Hi,

While using Developer Toolkit for Dynamics 365 we got strange issue today, the Images were not getting registered for Plugins.

In fact, in the Create New Plugin dialog box we couldn’t see the option of adding images like previous version.

Previous version –

To get more details on the new toolkit refer the below article

http://butenko.pro/2016/11/developer-toolkit-dynamics-365-public-beta-1-whats-new/

Hope it helps..

Using World Map \ Bing Map in SSRS Report in Dynamics 365 (and earlier)


Hi,

Recently I was working on a SSRS Report that will show the countries in the world map (Country was a custom entity in our CRM)

To create such a report, drag the Map report item to the report designer.

OOB we do not have world map in the Map Gallery.

Download it from the following location

https://mapgallery.codeplex.com/releases

Copy the download RDL to the following location (in my case – SQL Server Data Tools for VS 2012)

Select the world map

Add a Bing Map layer

Select Basic map

Click Next and select appropriate value

Click on Finish.

Next inside report designer, right click Layer Data

And specify mapping between the spatial and analytical dataset (our custom dataset here which has 2 column in it, name of the country and A2.

Suppose we have following countries in our CRM

The final report with countries highlighted in colors.

Hope it helps..

Bug in New Form Rendering CRM 2016 Update 1 – Add New button not working for Opportunity Product Sub Grid in Opportunity Form.


Today we got one more product bug in case of New Form Rendering

The Add New Button for OOB Inline Edit Sub grid works properly, however for a new custom sub grid it doesn’t work.

The same works properly in case of Legacy Form Rendering.

Clicking on + button opens the new form for Opportunity Product entity

Below are the other issues that we have faced recently in case of New Form Rendering

https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/onchange-event-getting-fired-on-setvalue-in-crm-2016-update-1-new-form-rendering/

https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/recommended-field-showing-up-as-required-field-issue-in-dynamics-365/

Hope it helps..

Cannot update a report from a template if the report was not created from a template error while trying to import solution in Dynamics 365


While trying to import a managed solution to our test environment we got the below error

“Cannot update a report from a template if the report was not created from a template”. We got this error on one specific report.

Removing that particular report from the solution and trying the import again fixed the issue for us.

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/150777

Hope it helps..

SQL Timeout Issue while trying to Apply Solution Upgrade in Dynamics 365


Recently in our project we tried implementing solution upgrade to delete some of the components from the existing managed solution.

https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/how-to-delete-components-from-managed-solution-in-dynamics-crm-2016-without-using-holding-solution/

However, we kept running into SQL time out issue and it didn’t work for us. Finally we raised product support ticket for it and eventually the product support team increased the SQLCommandTimeout to 5 minutes, which helped us to fix the issue.