Missing Activities tab in Social Pane in CRM 2013

Originally posted on Nishant Rana's Weblog:
Hi, Was working on a task wherein we had to add Social Pane to a form of a custom entity. We enabled the Notes for the entity (Activities was already enabled). However after adding it to the form it was only showing only Notes tab. The solution we…

“The formula is empty” exception while importing solution in CRM 2015

“The formula is empty” exception while importing solution in CRM 2015.

CRM 2013+: Where did my Security menu option go?!

Originally posted on Coding Random Musings:
We’ve been working with our migration from CRM 2011 to 2015, and in the process we realized that we lost the Security option from the navigation. It was gone. Lost. Nowhere to be found. How are we going to edit security roles and related items? Hairs were pulled. Questions were…

Older than – Query operator in CRM 2015 Update1

Hi, Older Than operator is being introduced which will perform against date time field in Update1. Operator Allowed Values Supported Version olderthan-x-minutes 1-1440 v7.1+ olderthan-x-hours 1-2000 v7.1+ olderthan-x-days 1-500 v7.1+ olderthan-x-weeks 1-100 v7.1+ olderthan-x-months 1-100 v3.0+ olderthan-x-weeks 1-100 v7.1+ olderthan-x-years 1-100 v7.1+ Note: These are available only in CRM 2015 Update1. Thank you, Sreeni Pavalla

AssignRequest, SetStateRequest, SetParentSystemUserRequest and etc are deprecated in CRM 2015 Update1

Hi, As we all know that we need to use special methods like below for different purposes AssignRequest SetStateRequest SetParentSystemUserRequest SetParentTeamRequest SetParentBusinessUnitRequest SetBusinessEquipmentRequest SetBusinessSystemUserRequest Some times we may miss/forget and write coding which will not fulfill the requirement or may lead to errors. But with this Update 1, every thing can be handled in Update

Upsert Method – CRM 2015 Update 1

Hi, There is a new method named Upsert is introduced which will come handy when we are working data. Upsert = Update or Insert. This reduces the complexity of data operation. In situations we may not know that we should update or insert as we are not sure. By using Upsert method,  UpsertRequest request = new UpsertRequest()

What is Alternate Key – CRM 2015 Update 1

Hi , They have introduced cool concept named Alternate Key in 2015 Update 1. Alternate key can be used as a unique identifier for the record. Why we need Alternate key as we already have primary key? This will come handy when you are integrating CRM data with external databases which might deal with natural data type than GUID’S. Which

“The entity referenced by this process includes a currency value that does not exist in your organization. Select a different currency and try again.” Error in Workflow in CRM.

“The entity referenced by this process includes a currency value that does not exist in your organization. Select a different currency and try again.” Error in Workflow in CRM..

Query execution time of 60 seconds exceeded the threshold of 10 seconds warning in CRM 2013.

Query execution time of 60 seconds exceeded the threshold of 10 seconds warning in CRM 2013..

CRM2013 error – The file is too large and cannot be uploaded. Please reduce the size of the file and try again.

CRM2013 error – The file is too large and cannot be uploaded. Please reduce the size of the file and try again..