Category Archives: CRM

With RibbonDiff you can add a custom button to the ribbon of a sub-grid. You can further add a display rule to only show this button when the sub-grid is being shown within the form of a particular parent entity type. This is … Continue reading →

Entity type code for custom entities may be different across environments. Sometime you may need to work out the entity name from an entity type code, for example when CRM throws an error message at you. Here is a quick way to … Continue reading →

Although unsupported, in CRM you can use JavaScript to restrict the available lookup types for a lookup field on the form. For example, on the Email form I’d like to restrict the Regarding field to be able to lookup Client … Continue reading →

I think I may have found a bug in the internal CRM JavaScript, and it is to do with retrieving the saveMode in form script. As you may be aware, you can determine the save mode by executing executionObject.getEventArgs().getSaveMode() in form … Continue reading →

Have you noticed that the generated early-binding classes always have 2 ID properties? For example, the Account class would have Id and AccountId. The Contact class would have Id and ContactId. Which property should you use in early-binding programming? Well, if … Continue reading →

Recently we ran into an issue where a workflow configured to run upon changing a particular field was being triggered even though that field was not being updated. In the end it turned out that this was because of the … Continue reading →

In certain scenarios you might need to update a plugin/workflow assembly deployed to the CRM database programmatically. A good example is for CI build/deployment purposes. From a CI build/deployment perspective, an issue with deploying the assembly to the database, and promoting the assembly … Continue reading →