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