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Exception message “entityName” in CRM 2011

Hi,

We get the “entityName” exception if we haven’t specified value for LogicalName property of Entity class. (easy to figure out 🙂 )
Hope it helps!

Using Bulk Data Export tool of CRM 4.0 with CRM 2011

We need to make following changes to get the Bulk Data Export tool for CRM 4.0(http://mscrmbulkdataexport.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic) to work with CRM 2011.

Change the app.config of the tool

http://mscrmuk.blogspot.com/2011/02/using-crm-40-assemblies-on-crm-2011.html

And add references to the 64 bit version of Microsoft.crm.sdk and Microsoft.crm.sdktypeproxy dlls. (Which we can get from its SDK)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb&displaylang=en

http://www.box.net/shared/z6z1dcby0k

Hope it helps.

Configuring Forms Based Authentication (FBA) for SharePoint 2010

Create a new web application from Central Administration.

Select Authentication as Claims Based Authentication

Check Enable FBA checkbox and specify Membership provider name and role manager name as SqlMembers and SqlRoles.

Click on Ok to create the web application.

After successful creation of the web application create a site collection.

Navigate to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727 and run aspnew_regsql.exe tool there.

Follow the screen shots below to create a new database named MYFBADB.

After successful creation of the database add the following information(highlighted in yellow) to the web.config file of our FBA application

Next open the web.config of the Central admin site and add the same information added above

</SharePoint>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add
name=“SqlConn“
connectionString=“server=crm2011;database= MYFBADB;Trusted_Connection=true“ />
    </connectionStrings>
<system.web>

Lastly add the following configuration information in the web.config file of the SecurityTokenServiceApplication (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebServices\SecurityToken)

    </system.net>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add
name=“SqlConn“
connectionString=“server=crm2011;database= MYFBADB;Trusted_Connection=true“ />
    </connectionStrings>    <system.web>
        <membership
defaultProvider=“SqlMembers“>
            <providers>
                <add
connectionStringName=“SqlConn“
applicationName=“/“
name=“SqlMembers“
type=“System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a“ />
            </providers>
        </membership>
        <roleManager
enabled=“true“
defaultProvider=“SqlRoles“>
            <providers>
                <add
connectionStringName=“SqlConn“
applicationName=“/“
name=“SqlRoles“
type=“System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a“/>
            </providers>
        </roleManager>
    </system.web>

That’s it.

Adding User to SharePoint Group through a custom ASP.NET web service.

I had a requirement to create a web service which would be used to add user to a SharePoint group. The code for it

[WebMethod]
public string AddSharePointUser(string username,string password, string email){
string statusInfo = “”;
try{
string SharePointUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[“SharePointUrl”].ToString();
string SharePointGroup = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[“SharePointGroup”].ToString();
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate(){
using (SPSite oSiteCollection = new
SPSite(SharePointUrl)){
oSiteCollection.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
using (SPWeb oWebsite = oSiteCollection.OpenWeb()){
oWebsite.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
SPUser spUser = oWebsite.EnsureUser(username);
SPGroup spGroup = oWebsite.SiteGroups[SharePointGroup];

spGroup.AddUser(spUser);
oWebsite.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;

}

oSiteCollection.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;

}});

statusInfo = “User Created Successfully”;

}
else{
statusInfo = “User Already Exists”;

}}
catch (Exception ex){
statusInfo = ex.Message;

}
return statusInfo;

}

To run the web service successfully, we need to set the identity of application pool of the web service to SharePoint Administrator account.

Hope it helps.

Plugin for Resolve Case action against Incident Entity. (CRM 4.0)

We had a requirement wherein we wanted to update one of the fields in the incident record when we are resolving it through (Actionà Resolve Case).

Here we had to write a Pre-Update plugin registered on Child Pipeline against incident entity.

Calling On Demand Workflow through a Button in Ribbon (launchOnDemandWorkflow) in CRM 2011

I had to call an on demand workflow through a custom button click inside the ribbon. I thought of using launchOnDemandWorkflow function.

http://inogic.blogspot.com/2009/06/call-workflow-from-isv-button.html

But couldn’t really find a way of calling that function.

So thought of calling it through its url, which would be something like this

http://servername/orgname/_grid/cmds/dlg_runworkflow.aspx?

iObjType=10004

&iTotal=1

&sIds=%7b4BEBDCAF-8F66-E011-A475-00155D045711%7d%3b

&wfId=%7bF0ED25C7-5129-4297-8515-69DFFA0739FF%7d

function CallOnDemandWorkflow() {

var recordID = crmForm.ObjectId;

var url = “http://server/org/_grid/cmds/dlg_runworkflow.aspx?iObjType=10004&iTotal=1&sIds={“ + recordID + “}&wfId={F0ED25C7-5129-4297-8515-69DFFA0739FF}”;

window.open(url);

}

However I keep getting some JavaScript Error.

Finally found out the correct way of doing so.

function CallOnDemandWF() {

var a = new Array(crmFormSubmit.crmFormSubmitId.value);

var sIds = crmFormSubmit.crmFormSubmitId.value+“;”;

var sEntityTypeCode = “10004”; //Replace this with your entity type code

var sWorkflowId = “{F0ED25C7-5129-4297-8515-69DFFA0739FF}”; //Replace this with your actual workflow ID

var iWindowPosX = 500; //Modal dialog position X

var iWindowPosY = 200; //Modal dialog position Y

var oResult = openStdDlg(prependOrgName(“/_grid/cmds/dlg_runworkflow.aspx”)+“?iObjType=” + CrmEncodeDecode.CrmUrlEncode(sEntityTypeCode) + “&iTotal=” +

CrmEncodeDecode.CrmUrlEncode(a.length) + “&wfId=” + CrmEncodeDecode.CrmUrlEncode(sWorkflowId)+ “&sIds=” + CrmEncodeDecode.CrmUrlEncode(sIds) , a, iWindowPosX, iWindowPosY);

}

Check out the thread

http://axforum.info/forums/showthread.php?t=29333

Final Output