Category Archives: CRM

Ribbon Workbench is a great tool for customising the ribbon in CRM. When you need to customise an OOTB button/command however, it can be a bit difficult to identify the correct button/command to work with. This is particularly true when some of … Continue reading →

Our plugin was throwing the error below when creating a new task record: ‘An unexpected error occurred.’ at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OrganizationSdkServiceInternal.Create(Entity entity, CorrelationToken correlationToken, CallerOriginToken callerOriginToken, WebServiceType serviceType, Boolean checkAdminMode, Dictionary`2 optionalParameters) at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.InprocessServiceProxy.CreateCore(Entity entity) … We were not doing anything fancy … Continue reading →

This is a rehash of Michaël Hompus’ post https://blog.hompus.nl/2015/05/28/entity-type-code-using-javascript-only/ to help me remember this very useful trick. Note that the scripts described in this post are unsupported. In JavaScript, use Mscrm.EntityPropUtil.EntityTypeName2CodeMap to retrieve the entity type code for a given entity type … Continue reading →

There are many benefits of using early-binding when coding against CRM. There are times however when you need to fall back to late-binding, for example when you need to query relationships, or when you need to call Retrieve to optimise performance … Continue reading →

A common requirement is to apply filtering to a subgrid’s inline lookup on CRM form. For example, you might want to allow users to add only contacts of a particular account (selected in another field) to a contact subgrid on … Continue reading →

Recently we renamed the group names in an entity’s form navigation. These are the headings that group navigation links to related entities on an entity’s form. After deploying the solution we found that only users with System Administrator role can … Continue reading →