I was getting the above error while trying to create a SharePointDocumentLocation programmatically. However I was able to create an incident record without any issue.
As it turned out, this is what I was missing
OrganizationServiceProxy orgService = new
OrganizationServiceProxy(organizationUri, homeRealmUri, credentials, null);
orgService.EnableProxyTypes();
Hope it helps!
Only a few days back I realized that it is so easy to convert our 2-d charts to 3-d in CRM 2011.
Steps are as following:-
Open the chart we want to convert to 3-d.
Suppose this is our chart
Select the Export Chart button from the Ribbon
In the exported xml for the chart add the following line (Area3DStyle), before the closing tag of ChartArea.
</AxisX>
<Area3DStyle Enable3D=”True” />
</ChartArea>
</ChartAreas>
Using Import Chart option import it back, this is how now it is gonna look like
One more thing we can also add filter criteria to the fetch used in Chart’s xml.
Do check out these wonderful posts
http://niiranen.eu/crm/2010/10/turn-the-flat-dynamics-crm-2011-charts-into-3d/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2011/01/04/crm-2011-charts-know-the-real-potential-part-i.aspx
http://gtcrm.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/quick-reference-for-common-crm-2011-chart-customisations/
Hope it helps.
In CRM 4, to send a mail to a custom entity we used to create a new email attribute for that entity and then had to write a custom workflow activity or plugin for sending mail or some complex logic.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/crmdevelopment/thread/634aa49d-d8fc-4a8c-b3af-6c00b72f8df9
Good news is that in CRM 2011 we have a new feature to Send e-mail for custom entities.
Just need to enable that option in Entity Customization form. It will create a new email field for that entity or will use an existing email field if it is already there.
Bye.
Update :- The below solution doens’t work any more
Recently we had a requirement to create a web part that will show the weather information based on the address of the user, which we were pulling from Microsoft Dynamics CRM’s database.
These following two links were of immense help
http://svintinner.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-use-weathercom-to-replace-msnbc.html
http://weatherwebpart.codeplex.com/
This is how the web part looks
Below is the sample source code for the web part
public class MyWeatherWebPart : WebPart
{
String UserLocation = "Ahmedabad"; // user city
String UserCountry = "India"; // user country
String RequestforURL = string.Empty; // URL which use to get xml data ( rss feed response ) from weather.com
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Xml xmlResults = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.Xml(); // this object contain final data we need to publish(write on sharepoint site)
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
try
{
String reqUrl = "<a href="http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/">http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/</a>" + GetLocaleID() + "?cc=*&dayf=5&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=xxxxxxxx&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
HttpWebRequest wr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(reqUrl);
//load the response into a response object
WebResponse resp = wr.GetResponse();
// create a new stream that can be placed into an XmlTextReader
Stream str = resp.GetResponseStream();
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(str);
reader.XmlResolver = null;
// create a new Xml document and locading feed data in to it
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(reader);
// as xml style sheet is use for publishing data so we loading it into envornment
HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current; // getting refrence of current environment
// getting reference of path where sml style sheet stays
string path = context.Request.MapPath("/_layouts/RSSWeatherXSL.xsl");
// this object need to convert xml data into xml style sheet view
XslTransform trans = new XslTransform();
trans.Load(path); // loading xsl file
xmlResults.Document = doc; // loading xml data
xmlResults.Transform = trans; // transforming xml to xsl
xmlResults.DataBind(); // binding data
xmlResults.Visible = true; // setting property
xmlResults.RenderControl(writer); // rendering/publishing data as html
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
writer.Write(ex.Message);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// GetLocaleID() THIS METHOD USED TO GET LOCATION ID WHICH we NEED TO GET WEATHER RSS FEED
/// THIS METHOD USE USER CITY AND COUNTRY INFORMATION
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public string GetLocaleID()
{
try
{
RequestforURL = "<a href="http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where">http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where</a>=" + UserLocation.ToString() + "," + UserCountry.ToString();
// First we request our content from our provider source .. in this case .. The Weather Channel
HttpWebRequest wr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(RequestforURL);
//load the response into a response object
WebResponse resp = wr.GetResponse();
// converting it into stream
Stream str = resp.GetResponseStream();
// creating xml reader
XmlTextReader XmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader(str);
XmlTextReader.XmlResolver = null;
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
// loading xml data in xml doc
doc.Load(XmlTextReader);
// searching location id
return doc.DocumentElement.ParentNode.LastChild.FirstChild.Attributes[0].Value;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
throw ex; // any exception then default value i.e toronto, canada
}
}
}
Bye.
I had a requirement to create a web part that will pull the address information from one of the records in CRM and show it on the map.
One of the issues I faced while trying out different approaches was that after adding the web part to the SharePoint page, the scrollbar used to go missing in that page.
Finally with help of below two links I managed to develop a the web part.
http://sundium.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/dynamics-crm-40-virtual-earth/
http://virtualearthwebpart.codeplex.com/
Well we could make use of the below code to achieve that
public class MyVirtualEarthWebPart : WebPart
{
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
System.Web.UI.ClientScriptManager csm = Page.ClientScript;
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
string SCRIPT_NAME = "MapScript" + this.ID;
builder.Append("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\"> \n");
builder.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.2\"></script> \n");
builder.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\"> \n");
builder.Append(" var map = null; \n");
builder.Append(" var latitude = null; \n");
builder.Append(" var longitude = null; \n");
builder.Append(" var address = ''; \n");
builder.Append(" var titles = new Array(); \n");
builder.Append(" function GetMap() \n");
builder.Append(" { \n");
builder.Append(" try \n");
builder.Append(" { \n");
builder.Append(" address = 'New C G Road, chandkheda, gandhinagar';\n");
builder.Append(" map = new VEMap('myMap');\n");
builder.Append(" map.LoadMap(null,4,VEMapStyle.Hybrid); \n");
builder.Append(" map.Find(null,address,null,null,0,10,true,true,true,true,FindCallBack); \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append(" catch (e) \n");
builder.Append(" { \n");
builder.Append(" alert('GetMap: ' + e.message); \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append(" function FindCallBack(shapeLayer, results, positions, moreResults, e) \n");
builder.Append(" { \n");
builder.Append(" try \n");
builder.Append(" { \n");
builder.Append(" if(positions != null && positions.length > 0) \n");
builder.Append(" { \n");
builder.Append(" PlacePushPin(positions[0].LatLong.Latitude,positions[0].LatLong.Longitude); \n");
builder.Append(" latitude = positions[0].LatLong.Latitude; \n");
builder.Append(" longitude = positions[0].LatLong.Longitude; \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append(" } catch (e) { \n");
builder.Append(" alert('FindCallBack: ' + e.message); \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append(" function PlacePushPin(lat, lon){ \n");
builder.Append(" latlong = new VELatLong(lat,lon); \n");
builder.Append(" customerPushPin = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Pushpin,latlong); \n");
builder.Append(" customerPushPin.SetTitle(address); \n");
builder.Append(" map.AddShape(customerPushPin); \n");
builder.Append(" map.SetCenterAndZoom(latlong,15); \n");
builder.Append(" } \n");
builder.Append("_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push('GetMap'); \n</script> \n");
csm.RegisterClientScriptBlock(
this.GetType(),
SCRIPT_NAME,
builder.ToString(),
false);
}
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
base.CreateChildControls();
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
builder.Append("<div id='myMap' style='position: relative; width: 300px; height: 300px;'></div>");
this.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(builder.ToString()));
}
}
Bye.
I was getting the above error while running one of the custom SSRS report inside CRM 2011.
To resolve this issue I had to follow these steps
Hope it helps.
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