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My Notes on Business Process Flow in CRM 2015

In CRM 2013 we were restricted to only those Entities that were 1: n related.
In CRM 2015 we can select any entity on which Business Process Flow is enabled.
Here test is an entity which has business process flow enabled, however it is not related to Contact record i.e. our primary entity

The same restriction of having only 5 entities applies to CRM 2015 also.

The entity relationships supported are of type 1: n only and it is optional.
Each process can have maximum 30 stages.
And each stage can have maximum 30 steps.
There can only be one active process at a time.
No closed entity loop, the entity used earlier can be referenced again.

Business Hours in Service Level Agreements (SLA) in CRM 2013

Hi,

Was looking into how the business hours works in SLA.

For this we a created new SLA record on CreatedOn field and which will update one of the fields on warning after one minute and some other field on failure after waiting for 5 minute.

And Applicable When -> when the Title field of Case contains “mm” text in it.

Following was the schedule

We created case record that satisfies the above condition at 3:28 P.M.

It updated one field on warning after one minute and then on 3:30 it went into wait condition and then resumed at 3:40 and showed failure at 3:43 as expected (i.e. total 5 minutes).

So it did consider the Break specified and on resuming ran for the remaining 3 minutes.

Hope it helps..

Fixed – Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: Cannot create a lookup without the required parameters in CRM 2013

Hi,

Got this error in one of the steps in the Action. It was updating one of the lookup field using Update step.

The issue was that the lookup field was not in the form. Adding that particular field in the form back resolved the issue.

Hope this helps..

Using CreateMultiEntityAssociation method of CRMServiceClient for 1: n records.

Hi,

CreateMultiEntityAssociation method of CrmServiceclient can be used for associating 1 : n records i.e. if we have one contact record that we want to associate with multiple opportunity record ( 1-n) then we can use that method. This way we wont have to update each individual record.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xrm.tooling.connector.crmserviceclient.createmultientityassociation.aspx

Sample Code


Uri organizationUri = new Uri("http://server/crmrog/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc");
Uri homeRealmUri = null;
ClientCredentials credentials = new ClientCredentials();
credentials.Windows.ClientCredential = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
OrganizationServiceProxy orgProxy = new OrganizationServiceProxy(organizationUri, homeRealmUri, credentials, null);

CrmServiceClient crmServiceClient = new CrmServiceClient(orgProxy);
List<Guid> lstOpportunityGuid = new List<Guid>();
lstOpportunityGuid.Add(new Guid("9DDCE989-0738-E411-9878-00155D56FF56"));
lstOpportunityGuid.Add(new Guid("019E1598-0738-E411-9878-00155D56FF56"));
lstOpportunityGuid.Add(new Guid("EA393A91-0738-E411-9878-00155D56FF56"));
crmServiceClient.CreateMultiEntityAssociation("contact", new Guid("CF1FC3C0-0738-E411-9878-00155D56FF56"), "opportunity", lstOpportunityGuid, "opportunity_customer_contacts");

Hope it helps ..

Calling a Windows Authenticated WCF Service in a Plugin in CRM

Hi,

Suppose we need to call the service created here in our plugin

https://nishantrana.me/2014/09/05/configure-a-wcf-service-for-windows-authentication/

As plugin don’t have configuration file, we need to specify binding information in Code.

The sample code to call the WCF Service by passing Network Credentials


private static void CallWCFService()
{
BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
binding.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly;
binding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Windows;

// Specify the endpointAddress
EndpointAddress endpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(new Uri("http://servername:port/Service1.svc"));

ServiceReference1.Service1Client client = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client(binding, endpointAddress);
if (client.ChannelFactory.Credentials != null)
client.ChannelFactory.Credentials.Windows.ClientCredential = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domain");
if (client.ClientCredentials != null)
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel = System.Security.Principal.TokenImpersonationLevel.Delegation;
MessageBox.Show(client.GetData(1));
}

Hope it helps ..