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A Tip for Notes When You Create a New Dynamics CRM Entity

Post Author: Joe D365 |

When you create a new Dynamics CRM entity, you have the option to select Notes and Activities to add to each record.

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If you aren't sure if you want to display Notes and Activities on the entity, leave them unchecked. You can always circle back and add Notes and Activities to your entity

If you choose to check off the Notes and Activities Boxes and click Save the Notes and Activities boxes will become greyed out.

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Let's say for example you choose to add Notes and Activities, but later on….. you decide to remove Notes from your entity.

Easy enough:

Go to Settings > Customization > Customize the Solution > Select your entity in the Entity section > Click Forms and edit the Main Form.

To Remove the Notes from your Form

  1. Select the Notes Section on the form
  2. Select the Remove button from the Action Ribbon
  3. Click Ok

Notes have been removed.

Later, time has passed and your requirements have once again changed. You need to add Notes back to your entity.

You go to Customization> Customize the Solution > Select your entity but notice the Notes checkbox is still greyed out.

You open the Main Form; you see that there is no Notes field or Notes section. You start to question "is it possible to add Notes back to your entity?"

Yes it is.

Open up the Main Form in the left hand navigation

  1. Select the Insert Tab across the top
  2. Click on the Notes button

By clicking on the Notes Icon it will re-add the Notes section to the entity.

Inset a Tab if you choose to add the Notes section to a different Tab, or add Notes to an existing section already on the form.

Hope you enjoyed this CRM How to from the CRM Experts at PowerObjects. Feel free to comment and let us know if there are other areas of crm tips and tricks  you would like us to conver in future posts.

Happy CRM'ing!

Joe CRM
By Joe D365
Joe D365 is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 superhero who runs on pure Dynamics adrenaline. As the face of PowerObjects, Joe D365’s mission is to reveal innovative ways to use Dynamics 365 and bring the application to more businesses and organizations around the world.

11 comments on “A Tip for Notes When You Create a New Dynamics CRM Entity”

  1. I personally think there is no need to have notes and activities on each and every entity. This just makes it more confusing for the user. Plus on top of that there is another note section in each activity itself. I think this is all redundant. IMHO.

  2. This is a very good tip, learned it the hard way.
    I have a question though: Any idea how to check which entity is the note associated with in the conditional branch of a work-flow/process?

    1. Hi Gabriel -- yes - you can check which entity a note is associated with. This is typicaly done by check if the regardingxyz contains data. So for example, in my workflow I can determine if the note is related to a lead by checking if RegardingLead contains data.

  3. Thanks for the information. But I didn't bring the « old » Notes field, where you were able to close it or not on the entity ?

    TX

  4. Thanks, but my Notes button is inactive, cannot select it. Any ideas where I can enable it?

    1. Hi Ana - So you are not able to click on the notes checkbox to enable notes? Is this a custom entity? One explanation is if the entity is part of a managed solution that does not allow customization on top of it.

    2. I am having the same problem. I created another form for the Case entity, but I cannot add Notes to it. No matter what I do I cannot seem to get the Notes button in the ribbon to be enabled.

      1. I realized the problem: the Notes were already on the form, but it was called “Conversation Tabs.” I didn’t realize it until I went to look at an actual case. I can’t believe I was banging my head on that for so long.

  5. Thanks. But if I have Notes and Activities in a custom entity. And the new requirements want notes but not activities. How do I get rid of the Activities tab in the Notes control?

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