Tag Archives: sharepoint

Update to Sharepoint & Issues with List Component in Dynamics CRM

If you have SharePoint integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, you may have noticed a recent service update where you now experience the following: You cannot open a PowerPoint file by clicking its link in a document list. Instead, you

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Use SharePoint Workflows to create CRM 2011 / SharePoint Sub-Folders

Today we’ll describe a time-saving trick that automatically creates SharePoint sub-folders to be used in the integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. When configured to do so, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers an integration with SharePoint that will create a folder

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Bulk Creation of SharePoint Folders and Automated Integration with Dynamics CRM

There are many reasons to use SharePoint with Dynamics CRM: you can store large documents, collaborate with team members and take advantage of the Business Data Connectivity Service. Today, we’ll show how you can create SharePoint folders in bulk and

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Displaying an Office 365 SharePoint iframe in CRM

One of the great features in Dynamics CRM is being able to display data or websites from other software packages via an iframe. While working with the Office 365 products, I wanted to display a Sharepoint iframe in CRM 2011.

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CRM 2011 and Sharepoint 2010: Configuration and Folder Structure

CRM 2011 and Sharepoint 2010 Overview The Microsoft Dynamics CRM List component provides a way to obtain the document management capabilities of SharePoint in Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the appearance and behavior of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This component also enablesÂ

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CRM Reasons to use SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 provides a number of reasons for upgrading/migrating from 2007. CRM integration is simplified and enhanced. Creating external lists can now be done using SharePoint Designer and Business Data Connectivity Service Use a custom column in SharePoint lists that

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Articles – Knowledge Base Article Enhancements

In the past we often heard this “We are using Dynamics CRM 4.0 and we would like to add attributes to the KB form, email KB articles from Outlook, audit changes made to articles and contextually store documents in SharePoint

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Sharepoint Integration

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, there are few options for SharePoint Integration in CRM. One of the simple ones is to have a static link to a particular list in SharePoint on the main CRM navigation or in an IFrame

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PDF In Document Libraries in IFrame – Open in New Window

Many of our clients have a SharePoint document library displayed in an iframe in various entities, such as accounts, contacts, projects, etc. This works great, but often one complaint is that if a pdf file is opened, there is no

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