HowTo: Open standard lookup window and get selected record(s)

If you are apologist of 100% supported solutions for Dynamics CRM this is a good place to close this article because it describes approach that will allow to open standard lookup dialog window of CRM and get selected values from it. Of course that customization is unsupported.

MVP Renewed – 5

Sixth year in a row I have got MVP award. Congratulations to all MVP's who has got award first time or was re-awarded.

Microsoft CRM 2015 and OData queries builders

Since OData endpoint was released with CRM 2011 I used CRM OData Query Designer developed by MVP fellow Rhett Clinton. Today I was working on brand new online instance of CRM 2015 and… I was not able to import lovely tool into CRM with message that solutions developed for CRM 2011 could not be imported into CRM 2015. I started to look for alternatives and found brilliant solution developed by other MVP fellow – Jason Lattimer. The great advantage of CRM REST Builder is that you can get complete code of calls using different frameworks developed for Dynamics CRM. So try, use and love this tool – CRM REST Builder.

Microsoft CRM 2013: Currency exchange rates actualization

In this article I will share with small add-on I developed for one of my customers.
Let’s assume that you are employee of company that uses CRM with several currencies. Of course you want to have actual information in your system and currency exchange rates should be current. Microsoft CRM allows to have in system one base currency and many other currencies. Every currency has exchange rate field that is used for calculation of base fields of your currency fields but there is no out-of-box possibility to actualize exchange rates.

Reporting for Dynamics CRM: Error while loading code module: “Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.RdlHelper…”

Let’s assume that you’ve created report for Dynamics CRM using Report Wizard and opened it with BIDS to add changes that are not available with Report Wizard (it could be anything – adding of images, change of fonts or layout…).
Once you’ve opened a report and applied change of course you want to recheck changes. In case you will get error that is shown on following screenshot you can find steps that will allow to build and test report in BIDs without any issues:

Dynamics CRM 2013: Step-by-step creating dialog windows

In my previous post I shared how to use Microsoft CRM internal function to show dialog window in Dynamics CRM 2013 inline style. In this post I will write step-by-step guide how to build own dialogs in CRM 2013 style.

Show your dialog in CRM 2013 modal style

With CRM 2013 we have got one working window without any pop-up windows (lookups, dialogs, e.t.c.). But… only for standard features. What to do in case you wanted to use the same approach with modal windows as CRM does it? I walked through SDK and found following article - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj602956.aspx#BKMK_OpenWebResource. I tried the code but I have got wrapped window.open method. After some investigations I found how CRM does it:

if (typeof Custom == "undefined") {
    Custom = {
        OpenDialog: function (webresource) {
            var $v_0 = new Mscrm.CrmDialog(Mscrm.CrmUri.create(webresource), window, 370, 370, null);
            $v_0.show();
        },
        __namespace: true
    };
}

and usage is following:

Custom.OpenDialog("/webresources/new_webresource.htm");

Demonstration of how it looks like:

You can use this approach but remember that this code uses undocumented methods so it could be broken with any rollup.