CRM Migration Assistant 1.3.3 Released
We have released a small update to the CRM Migration Assistant which includes the following updates: Added 0 and 1 as supported Submit Options Fixed issues with converting .AddOption to .addOption method. Conversion alerts were added for the following JavaScript properties: .title .vAlign .contentEditable .innerText Any .style property that is not either display or visible [...]
Converting to CRM 2011 JavaScript: Form Elements
One of the most fascinating things I found during the creation of the CRM Migration Assistant is the different methods developers use to access CRM form fields, and other form elements. Normally, people access a form field using the following style of JavaScript: crmForm.all.name This is the normal and perfectly acceptable (and supported) method for [...]
Converting to CRM 2011 JavaScript: The basics
I thought that I would outline some of the conversion techniques that we use in the CRM Migration Assistant to convert JavaScript from the CRM 4.0 object model to the CRM 2011 object model. Many of the techniques we used in CRM 4.0 were technically unsupported. But since work had to be done, we did [...]
Be careful changing the full name format within Dynamics CRM
One of the settings that is available to a Dynamics CRM administrator is the ability to change the format of the full name. The options can be seen below: I’ve seen a few customers change the the format from the default, First Name Last Name, to Last Name, First Name. This allows you [...]
Dynamics CRM 4.0-2011 Upgrade Tip #6: Clean up deleted records
Full disclosure: I am blatantly stealing this idea from Joel Lindstrom at Customer Effective, as outlined in this article: Preparing for CRM 2011: How to Make your Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Upgrade Faster Run the deletion service. In CRM 4.0, if you deleted records, the records were not immediately deleted-they were flagged for deletion, then [...]
Dynamics CRM 4.0-2011 Upgrade Tip #5: Remove unsupported database changes
As you used your Dynamics CRM 4.0 database you may have had occasion to add "unsupported" objects to the database. These could be anything from indexes ( fairly supported ) to triggers ( pretty unsupported ) to custom stored procedures. You need to consider removing all of these additions prior to the upgrade. The pre-upgrade [...]
Dynamics CRM 4.0-2011 Upgrade Tip #4: Clean up old Synch table entries
If you are using the CRM Outlook client you will find two sets of tables in the CRM database beginning with: SubscriptionStatistics and SyncEntry. Like the AsyncOperationsBase table containing old and useless information, these tables present the same sorts of issues. Luckily, the Microsoft UK Dynamics Support team has an answer: Script to clean up [...]
Dynamics CRM 4.0-2011 Upgrade Tip #3: Clean up the System Job and Workflow Job Tables
In CRM 4.0 the system jobs table, otherwise known as the AsyncOperationsBase table, could expand to the point that normal CRM operations were affected. That’s a worse-case scenario. Regardless of current system performance, an abnormally large number of records in this table can slow down the upgrade process. Since we want our upgrade to go [...]
CRM Migration Assistant 1.3.1 Released
We’ve made a couple of changes to the CRM Migration Assistant this week. You may download the trial version here. Navigation Element Conversion The conversion of navigation elements ( navActivities, navActivityHistory, etc. ) was initially added to convert code like this: var myvar = document.all.navOpps.style.display; into this: var myvar = Xrm.Page.ui.navigation.items.get("navOpps").getVisible(); An [...]
CRM Migration Assistant 1.3 Released
Version 1.3 of our JavaScript conversion tool, CRM Migration Assistant has been released. More information is available here. Release Notes This month’s release focused mainly on enhancements to the conversion process. Bug Fixes Corrected an issue that produced an error when connecting directly to CRM 4.0 to extract customizations. Corrected an connection [...]