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Party List fields and how to filter Custom Activity records that use them using Advance Find

A new feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is the ability to create Custom Activity entities. You can create a custom activity entity by checking the Define as an activity entity field. While working with a Custom Activity entity you

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Creating a Dialog in CRM 2011

New to CRM 2011 is a process called Dialogs. Dialogs are a question and answer format that can be run on-demand or as a child to another process. As the user answers each question, the information can be stored in

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CRM 2011 Queues and Offline Access

Among the exciting features introduced in CRM 2011 is the ability to use queues with any entity type. This allows an organization to assign work to a user or team, and work can now exist in forms other than incidents/cases.

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Microsoft CRM 4.0 Update Rollup failed to install

We recently ran into an issue where we were receiving the error while trying to install update rollup 16 on a CRM 4.0 server: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Common.UpdateAction failed. The INSERT statement conflicted with the FORGEIN KEY constraint “lk_timezonerule_timezonedefinitionid”.   Issue: Missing

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CRM 2011 Opportunity Products Error

I was reviewing a recently upgraded organization with a lot of JavaScript in Opportunity and Quote Products and could not seem to resolve a misleading ‘DataValue’ error. I had the exact same code on both Opportunity Products and Quote Products

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CRM 2011 Actionable Goal Charts and Dashboards

Ever wonder how you could make goals actionable through dashboards? Let me walk you through it and soon you’ll be on your way! These are the steps you are going to take: Set up your goals via the new Goal

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Personal Dashboards in CRM 2011

Dashboards are possibly the most eye-catching feature of CRM 2011. Like the Mary Poppins’s song, candy colored charts distill information into an easy-to-swallow form making analytics a snap. But Dashboards don’t stop at charts. They allow every user to compile

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CRM 2011 Custom Activity Types

One of the greatest strengths of Dynamics CRM since its version-3.0 days has been the ability for a user to extend the base application by creating custom (or, user-created) entities that hold information not contained in the base tables. But

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Reassigning Personal Views – Fun with the MS CRM 4.0 Administration Console

A client of mine recently contacted me and asked me if there was a way to reassign some personal views that were created by an employee that has since left the organization. The client wanted to know if there was

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Personalization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

CRM 2011 has embraced the web application! Unlike CRM 4.0 which presented as a desktop application, the look and feel of the CRM 2011 interface is much more modern and leverages common webisms (new word for the day) like a

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