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Scheduling Workflows in Dynamics CRM
There is no way out-of-the-box to schedule workflows to run in Dynamics CRM. To get round this, you can schedule Bulk Delete jobs, and trigger a process when the records affected by those jobs are...
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Managing Web Forms within Dynamics CRM
It’s a common requirement to capture data on a website through web forms, and use that data within Dynamics CRM, for example to create or update records, or set off workflows. A recent project, to...
View ArticleAutomating Handbrake Video Conversions using a Windows Service
I have an HP Microserver onto which I’ve loaded copies of all my DVD and BluRay discs using the brilliant MakeMKV. This allows us to easily play anything in our library through XBMC on home-theatre PCs...
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Using the Integration Hub to submit Gift Aid claims
The Integration Hub is a set of .NET components I have developed to facilitate communication between two or more systems, built around the concept of Activities. An Activity involves extracting data...
View ArticleImporting and Exporting Dynamics CRM Solutions with code
It’s much more efficient to use the SDK to import and export Dynamics CRM solutions than to use the front end. Here is all the code you will need to do that. Here are the usings you need: using...
View ArticleAutomatically respond to emails in Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online using...
I recently migrated from Google Apps to Office 365 (included with the Microsoft Action Pack). I had been using the Google Labs Canned Responses tool to send an automatic reply to emails I received from...
View ArticleSet the Locale of a Dynamics CRM Organization and all users
The default locale of Dynamics CRM is of course English (United States) so one of the first things those of us in the rest of the world need to do when provisioning a new Organization (I know, with a...
View ArticleOpen a Dynamics CRM 2013 Quick Create Form using JavaScript
If you want to create a new record in Dynamics CRM 2013 using a Quick Create form from a ribbon (command bar) button, there is no supported way of doing so, but it is possible using unsupported...
View ArticleChanging the Options in a Dynamics CRM OptionSet (Picklist) programmatically,...
I recently needed to make a deployment routine remove unwanted options from out-of-the-box Option Sets (Picklists) like Campaign > Campaign Type and Contact > Preferred Contact Method. I needed...
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