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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..

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.

Crm Exception: Message: Customer lookup [CustomerId] is invalid. Customer lookups can only be associated with 1 Account and 1 Contact error while importing solution in CRM

While trying to import solution to our test environment from our dev environment we got the below error

“Crm Exception: Message: Customer lookup [CustomerId] is invalid. Customer lookups can only be associated with 1 Account and 1 Contact”

The way we got it fixed

Unzip the solution and open customizations.xml file
Remove all attributes with name “CustomerId” (Lead, Invoice, Opportunity entity)

Find all entity relationships with ReferencingAttributeName equals CustomerId and add to EntityRelationship new attribute: unmodified=”1″

Zip solution back and import it.

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/198818

Hope it helps..

Legacy Form Rendering vs New Form Rendering (Turbo Forms) in Dynamics 365

Hi,

Recently we were analyzing performance improvement we’d gain while moving our solution from legacy form rendering to new form rendering.

For this we picked up the opportunity entity, which had good enough customizations (field, tab, sub grid, JavaScript etc.) in it.

Below is result we got using CRM Performance Center

http://blog.cobalt.net/blog/understanding-the-microsoft-dynamics-crm-performance-center

Hope it helps..

How to – Get the list of all the dirty fields in the form in Dynamics 365

Hi,

Recently on opening our opportunity entity records we were getting unsaved changes message.

To quickly get the list of all the fields

Open the debugger tool and put the following script in the console window

frames[0].Xrm.Page.data.entity.getDataXml();

Check this thread

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32735019/dirty-form-with-no-dirty-fields-on-crm-2015-online

Hope it helps..

OnChange event getting fired on SetValue in CRM 2016 Update 1 New Form Rendering

Today while doing the analysis of existing system in New Form Rendering, we realized that the SetValue function used on onChange of an attribute was in turn triggering the onChange event for that field.

We basically had an option set field whose value we were setting based on certain condition on onChange event of the same field. This was working fine in Legacy Form Rendering and also in vanilla instance of Dynamics 365.

Only in new form rendering we were getting this issue of infinite loop.