Tag: CRM

Hi,

I was occasionally getting this error while trying to open pages within CRM.

This post by helped me solve the issue

http://billoncrmtech.blogspot.com/2008/10/sql-timeouts-in-crm-generic-sql-error.html

Key to change (or add if not there) of type  DWORD

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRM\OLEDBTimeout

Bye..

Hi,

I got this error while developing a post update callout for CRM 3.0.

The reason for this could be because the Network Service account under which CRM runs may not have appropriate rights for that.

One possible solution is to right click the assembly -> Properties –> Security tab –> Add Network Service account and give it appropriate rights.

That’s it..

Hi,

I never thought creating a dependent picklist in CRM 4.0 could be that easy.

Just download this tool

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Demonstration Tools (for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=634508DC-1762-40D6-B745-B3BDE05D7012&displaylang=en

After connecting, click on the Dependent Picklist on the left navigation bar,

Select an entity, and primary and related picklist,

Select an option in primary picklist and check the boxes for the related picklist options and click on map,

same way map other options as well.

Once done, click on get scripts button, we’ll get the onload and onchange code which we need to just copy paste in the form !

That’s it…

Hi,

While browsing found this wonderful articl, do check it

http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/03/07/developing-plug-ins-for-crm-4-0.aspx

Bye..

I was getting the error while trying to run my custom aspx deployed within microsoft crm using sitemap !

If  I was giving the absolute path within the site map

<SubArea Id=“nav_home“ ResourceId=“Homepage_Home“

Title=“Activities Overview“

Icon=“/_imgs/area/18_home.gif“

Url=http://localhost:5555/ISV/BHC/ActivitiesOverview.aspx

Client=“Web“

Description=“Activities Overview“

PassParams=“1“ ></

SubArea>

i.e.

Url=“http://localhost:5555/ISV/BHC/ActivitiesOverview.aspx&#8221;

The page was working fine!

But on giving the relative path

Url =“/ISV/BHC/ActivitiesOverview.aspx” i was getting the error.

One thing that changes is the url, when we give relative path it appends the organization name in the url. Url becomes something like this

http://localhost:5555/orgname/isv/bhc/activitiesoverview.aspx

But then there were few other pages that were working fine, and i was getting this error on only one page.

After spending some time on that, i realized that this particular line of code within the page was the reason for the error

connectionString =

ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[“MSCRMConnectionString”].ConnectionString;

i.e. reading from the config file.

Now this information was within the web.config of the custom application deployed within CRM’s isv folder, but now with orgname appended it was trying to look for the same information in the web.config of the CRM itself ( crmweb/web.config )

It shows that “any custom pages added to the navigation using site map has to go through the virtual path provider” because of that it was not able to get the web.config of the custom application.

In case of custom pages used within isv.config and iframe, this doesn’t happen (i.e. it doesn’t pass throught virtual path provider so no orgname is appended to them )

Virtual path provider is the concept introduced in asp.net 2.0 and it is implemented in SharePoint as well, where we have certain pages called application pages within layouts folder of the 12 hive, they remain same for all the web application created in sharepoint i.e. same copy of the page is used for serving n number of web application created in SharePoint.

Bye ..

Hi,

Today on deploying custom pages within CRM, if found out that my drop down control was not working properly. On initial page load the drop down control was showing all the values but once the page is posted back it was showing no items inside it !

It happens becuase by default view state is disabled for pages within CRM 4.0

These are settings for the web.config within CRM 4.0

pages buffer=”true” enableSessionState=”false” enableViewState=”false” validateRequest=”false”

So just make sure if your pages are making use of view state or session state, ovverride the above settings for your custom pages!!

Few more tips
http://blogs.msdn.com/jannemattila/archive/2008/01/21/few-development-tips-for-crm-4-0.aspx

Bye.