Tag: CRM

XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName in CRM Plugin


I had written a pre-update plugin, it was working properly on my environment.

But after sending it across to the client, after he had deployed it we started getting the below mentioned error.

“XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName”

We were actually passing secure configuration information to the plugin in the following format

<Config>

<url>http://CrmServer/MSCRMServices/2007/CrmService.asmx</url>

<orgname>OrgName</orgname>

<username>UserName</username>

<password>Password</password>

<domain>Domain</domain>

</Config>

And the issue was the password that was being used, it had ‘&’ character, which we then replaced with ‘&amp;’ and the error got resolved.

Hope it helps!

Import Customization Error: Customization Import failed. Error: Entity with id already has the label Violation for column LocalizedName and language 1033 – update entity with id cannot have the same label


Hi got the following error while importing a customization file in CRM 4.

Customization Import failed. Error: Entity with id 02fe2413-00fb-44a9-a604-113c5134589d already has the label Violation for column LocalizedName and language 1033 – update entity with id 8e5456bf-38c1-4252-98fb-0637b9693940 cannot have the same label

It was referring to the custom entity name Violation.

The solution for this is to either change the display name of the already existing entity or the entity being imported.

I changed the display name of the existing entity to ViolationG.

I tried importing the entity again, however this time I got the below error

Customization Import failed. Error: Entity with id 02fe2413-00fb-44a9-a604-113c5134589d already has the label Violations for column LocalizedCollectionName and language 1033 – update entity with id 689586d1-d773-485a-90cf-a62ff54fff18 cannot have the same label

Here Violations was the plural name of the entity. I changed the plural name of the existing custom entity.

Tried importing the file again, and this time it succeeded without any error.

Check out this wonderful post àhttp://mscrm4kb.blogspot.com/2009/11/customization-issue.html

Hope it helps!

Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Crm, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified or Deploying custom web application inside ISV folder of CRM 2011


To deploy our custom web application inside ISV folder of CRM 2011 we need to follow the below steps

Make following changes in the web.config

<configuration>
<configSections>
<remove name=“crm.authentication“ />
</configSections>
<system.web>
<httpModules>
<clear/>
</httpModules>

……………………

And after deploying the application within the ISV folder, place the following dlls within its bin folder

  • AntiXssLibrary.dll
  • Microsoft.Crm.dll
  • Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.dll
  • Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Sdk.dll

We can find these dll’s inside

../Microsoft Dynamics CRM/Server/Bin folder.

The above solution worked perfectly for Beta Versions of CRM 2011.

Recently we upgraded to RTM, and we had to deploy a WCF Service and custom web site inside isv.

For WCF service we had to make following changes to the web.config apart from the changes mentioned above

<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled=”false”>
</serviceHostingEnvironment>
</system.serviceModel>

And in case of custom web site we had to add the following additional dll’s

  • Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Proxy.dll
  • Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll

Hope it helps!

IntelliSense for JavaScript in CRM 2011


Hi,

Follow the instructions in the following post to have the IntelliSense while writing JavaScript for CRM 2011.

http://www.patrickverbeeten.com/pages/ContentItemPage.aspx?id=9&item=118&p=true

Bye..

Get value for OptionSet in CRM 2011


To get the value for OptionSet we can use the following function

private
string GetOptionsSetTextOnValue(IOrganizationService service, string entityName, string attributeName, int selectedValue) {

RetrieveAttributeRequest retrieveAttributeRequest = new
RetrieveAttributeRequest {

EntityLogicalName = entityName,

LogicalName = attributeName,

RetrieveAsIfPublished = true

};
// Execute the request.
RetrieveAttributeResponse retrieveAttributeResponse =(RetrieveAttributeResponse) service.Execute(retrieveAttributeRequest);
// Access the retrieved attribute.

Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Metadata.PicklistAttributeMetadata retrievedPicklistAttributeMetadata =(Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Metadata.PicklistAttributeMetadata)

retrieveAttributeResponse.AttributeMetadata;// Get the current options list for the retrieved attribute.
OptionMetadata[] optionList =retrievedPicklistAttributeMetadata.OptionSet.Options.ToArray();
string selectedOptionLabel = string.Empty;
foreach (OptionMetadata oMD in optionList) {
if (oMD.Value == selectedValue){selectedOptionLabel = oMD.Label.UserLocalizedLabel.Label;

}

}
return selectedOptionLabel;

}

http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/553178/Get-the-OptionsetValue-and-OptionsetText-for-Dynam

 

Hope it helps !

JavaScript to hide left navigation from form in CRM 2011


Use this

http://rajeevpentyala.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/hide-navigation-items-pane-on-form-in-crm-2011/

Things below were applicable for CRM 2011’s CTP Version (unsupported)

We can use the following JavaScript to hide the left navigation pane from form in CRM 2011

function LeftNav() {


// hide the left navigation pane

document.getElementById(“crmNavBar”).parentElement.style.display = “none”;



// after hiding the crmform’s content panel moves to left


// to set it back to full width set the colspan

document.getElementById(“tdAreas”).parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.colSpan = 2;


// show only information section in the form


// hide the related section and the table below it.


document.getElementById(“crmFormNavSubareas”).parentElement.style.display = “none”;

document.getElementById(“crmFormNavSubareas”).parentElement.parentElement.previousSibling.style.display = “none”;


}

Hope it helps !