Category Archives: CRMQuickDeploy

Support for Portal Content Snippets added to CRMQuickDeploy 3.9

CRMQuickDeploy now has the ability to deploy Content Snippets to PowerApps Portal from Visual Studio. Below are information on how to structure content snippets in your Visual Studio project. Folder name Like other supported Portal artefact types, content snippets need … Continue reading

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CRMQuickDeploy 3.8 now supports client ID/secret and MFA

CRMQuickDeploy now supports a wider range of connection options to CRM, including client ID/secret and MFA. Below are examples of connection string to use for each scenario. On-prem with AD Integrated security: url=http://yourserver.domain/yourcrmorg This will connect to CRM using the … Continue reading

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Automatic Portal (xRM CE) cache refresh with CRMQuickDeploy

This feature of CRMQuickDeploy is for xRM Portal CE only and does not work for D365 Portal (on cloud). The context of this post therefore is xRM Portal CE only. When updating portal artefacts (such as web templates, web files, … Continue reading

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Auto-deployment of linked items in new version of CRMQuickDeploy

Since a couple of versions back, CRMQuickDeploy has a “link item” feature that allows you to share source code (Liquid/HTML, CSS and JavaScript) between multiple Portal artefacts (web pages, entity forms and web forms). When you deploy the source item … Continue reading

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Fixed bug with web file deployment in CRMQuickDeploy 3.5.3

The previous version of CRMQuickDeploy introduced a new feature where it was possible to use folders in the Visual Studio project to specify the targeted language for Portal web page deployment. This means that you no longer have to name … Continue reading

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Improved password management in new version of CRMQuickDeploy

In previous versions of CRMQuickDeploy, if your connection string requires a password, then the password needs to be specified as clear text in the connection string. While the password is not checked in to source control, and is not saved … Continue reading

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Better support for localised Portal web pages in new version of CRMQuickDeploy

Background When deploying Portal web pages, CRMQuickDeploy uses the web page’s name in CRM (and the filename of the project item) to identify the target web page for deployment. Since version 8 of CRM Portal however, we have the ability … Continue reading

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Reduce code duplication between Insert/Edit forms in CRM Portal with CRMQuickDeploy

CRM Portal is an interesting product, in a good way. One thing it doesn’t do very well however, is that a single Entity Form (or Web Form) cannot be used to handle both inserting and editing records for an entity. … Continue reading

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Auto deploy on save from Visual Studio for Adxstudio Portal artefacts in new version of CRMQuickDeploy

I have released a new version of CRMQuickDeploy with the following improvements: Option to auto deploy on save for Portal artefacts Ability to specify MIME Type and Display Order for Portal web files Auto deploy on save for Portal artefacts … Continue reading

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Source-control Adxstudio/CRM Portal JS, CSS and Liquid with CRMQuickDeploy

When working with Adxstudio Portal (OnPrem) or CRM Portal (Online) you will find that JavaScript, CSS and Liquid web templates are stored in CRM records (i.e. CRM database), which is not good for source-control or scenarios where there are more … Continue reading

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