With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015, the Xrm.Page.data.process namespace provides events, methods, and objects to interact with the business process flow data in a form.

This sample demonstrates how to switch to different stage using the new Xrm.Page.data.process methods.

Followings are the API used in the sample code:

getActiveProcess() – retrieve information about the active process

setActiveProcess()- Set different process as the active process.

getActiveStage()- retrieve information about the active stage

setActiveStage() – set a different stage as the active stage.

getActivePath() – get a collection of stages currently in the active path with methods to interact with the stages displayed in the business process flow control.

addOnStageChange(),removeOnStageChange() – add or remove event handlers for the business process flow control.

addOnStageSelected() – add a function as an event handler for the OnStageSelected event so that it will be called when a…

Parental relationships in Mscrm do a couple of things, in this post I’m going to focus on the reparent action.

(As a side note, reparent isn’t exclusively used in the parental behaviour, but is where it is most commonly used).

It is a Light weight windows application and this tool will be helpful when you are extensively working with FetchXML in Javascript / C# code to get desired result.

Functionality:

It will take FetchXML from Advance Find as an input and convert that into desired format, which can be used into Javascript / C# for further coding.

Pros:

1. No Need to spend time for FetchXML formatting
2. It is easy to use.
3. Works for both Javascript and C# code

Example:

Let us take a simple example of the below FetchXML,

 <fetch version="1.0" output-format="xml-platform" mapping="logical" distinct="false">
  <entity name="contact">
    <attribute name="fullname" />
    <attribute name="telephone1" />
    <attribute name="emailaddress1" />
    <attribute name="contactid" />
    <order attribute="fullname" descending="false" />
    <filter type="and">
      <condition attribute="ownerid" operator="eq-userid" />
      <condition attribute="statecode" operator="eq" value="0" />
    </filter>
  </entity>
</fetch>

Provide this as an input to FetchXML formatter Tool, 1. Check Javascript radio…

The other day to configure CRM environment, we were installing “Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting Extension” and to our surprise

“SSRS Instance” dropdown was blank and we could not proceed further

Reporting Extensions Setup

Reason

• We had 2 machines one with CRM application server and another with both “SQL server” & “SSRS Reporting services”
• The reason in our case was, we were trying to install “Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting Extension” on the CRM application server machine

Fix

• You must run CRM Reporting Extensions Setup on a computer that has Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services installed

Here is the MSDN’s  CRM 2011 Reporting Extensions Installation Guide

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