Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Page 74 – Nishant Rana's Weblog

When compared to Customization exam this one was little easier as the Application part in CRM 2011 is more or less like CRM 4.0 only, apart from addition of few new features.

There were question around Marketing List (Static and Dynamic), Campaigns (and quick campaigns), Lead conversion, Service Scheduling etc. These official training materials should be more than sufficient

80292A: Service Management in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
80293A: Service Scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
80290A: Marketing Automation in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
80291A: Sales Management in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

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Using Deep Insert (creating multiple new records in the same operation) in Silverlight (CRM 2011)

Hi,

Sharing a basic example using which we can create Parent entity and the related entity records in the same operation\

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309638.aspx

Check out this helpful post

http://inogic.blogspot.com/2011/12/odata-properties-and-methods-explored.html


public MainPage()
 {
 InitializeComponent();
 }

GGContext context;

private void UserControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
 {
 var orgServiceUrl = "http://servername/orgname/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc";

 // initialize the context
 context = new GGContext(new Uri(orgServiceUrl));

// using client http stack
 context.HttpStack = System.Data.Services.Client.HttpStack.ClientHttp;
 context.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
 context.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("administrator", "password", "domain");
 // create contact record
 Contact contact = new Contact();
 contact.LastName = "Rana";
 contact.FirstName = "Nisha";

 // create two tasks and one email activity
 var myTask1 = new Task();
 myTask1.Subject = "Task1 created at " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();
 var myTask2 = new Task();
 myTask2.Subject = "Task2 created at " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();
 var myEmail = new Email();
 myEmail.Subject = "Email created at " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();

// add the tasks and email to their respective set
 context.AddToTaskSet(myTask1);
 context.AddToTaskSet(myTask2);
 context.AddToEmailSet(myEmail);

// add contact to be created to the contact set
 context.AddToContactSet(contact);

// add the related records
 contact.Contact_Tasks.Add(myTask1);
 contact.Contact_Tasks.Add(myTask2);
 contact.Contact_Emails.Add(myEmail);

 // add the link
 // http://inogic.blogspot.com/2011/12/odata-properties-and-methods-explored.html
 context.AddLink(contact, "Contact_Tasks", myTask1);
 context.AddLink(contact, "Contact_Tasks", myTask2);
 context.AddLink(contact, "Contact_Emails", myEmail);

context.BeginSaveChanges(CreateContactHandler, contact);
 }
 private void CreateContactHandler(IAsyncResult result)
 {
 // in the call back method call the EndSaveChanges method
 // it returns DataServiceResponse object.
 // we can get the error information from this object in case an operation fails
 context.EndSaveChanges(result);
 // id of the created contact record
 Guid createdContactGuid = ((Contact)result.AsyncState).ContactId;
 }

Hope it helps

Sample code to parse JSON Date Format

Hi,

Just sharing a sample code to parse JSON Date Format (e.g. “\/Date(628318530718)\/”) to Date.


entity = JSON.parse(retrieveReq.responseText).d;

if (entity['BirthDate'] != null) {

var jdate = parseJsonDate(entity['BirthDate']);
 var year = jdate.getFullYear();
 var month = jdate.getMonth() + 1 < 10 ? '0' + (jdate.getMonth() + 1) : (jdate.getMonth() + 1);
 var date = jdate.getDate() < 10 ? '0' + jdate.getDate() : jdate.getDate();
 var dateString = month + '/' + date + '/' + year;

 alert(dateString);
 }

function parseJsonDate(jsonDate) {
 var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() * 60000;
 var parts = /\/Date\((-?\d+)([+-]\d{2})?(\d{2})?.*/.exec(jsonDate);

if (parts[2] == undefined)
 parts[2] = 0;

if (parts[3] == undefined)
 parts[3] = 0;

return new Date(+parts[1] + offset + parts[2] * 3600000 + parts[3] * 60000);
 }

}

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Sample Code to Cancel All the Open Activities for a particular record in CRM 2011.

Hi,

Just sharing a sample code that could be used to cancel all the open activities for a particular record.

 private void CancelChildActivities(Guid entityRecordGuid, IOrganizationService service)
 {
 QueryExpression qe = new QueryExpression();
 qe.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(new string[] { "activityid", "activitytypecode" });
 qe.EntityName = "activitypointer";

FilterExpression filterStateCode = new FilterExpression();
 filterStateCode.FilterOperator = LogicalOperator.Or;
 filterStateCode.AddCondition("statecode", ConditionOperator.Equal, "Open");
 filterStateCode.AddCondition("statecode", ConditionOperator.Equal, "Scheduled");

FilterExpression filter = new FilterExpression();
 filter.FilterOperator = LogicalOperator.And;
 filter.AddCondition("regardingobjectid", ConditionOperator.Equal, entityRecordGuid);
 filter.AddFilter(filterStateCode);

qe.Criteria = filter;

RetrieveMultipleRequest request = new RetrieveMultipleRequest();
 request.Query = qe;
 RetrieveMultipleResponse response = (RetrieveMultipleResponse)service.Execute(request);

foreach (Entity activity in response.EntityCollection.Entities)
 {
 CancelActivity(activity, service);
 }

}

 private void CancelActivity(Entity entity, IOrganizationService service)
 {
 EntityReference moniker = new EntityReference();

if (entity.LogicalName == "activitypointer")
 {
 if (entity.Attributes.Contains("activityid") & entity.Attributes.Contains("activitytypecode"))
 {
 moniker.LogicalName = entity.Attributes["activitytypecode"].ToString();
 moniker.Id = (Guid)entity.Attributes["activityid"];

SetStateRequest request = new SetStateRequest();
 request.EntityMoniker = moniker;
 request.State = new OptionSetValue(2);
 request.Status = new OptionSetValue(-1);
 SetStateResponse response = (SetStateResponse)service.Execute(request);
 }
 }

}

Bye.