Questions tagged [dynamics-crm-2015]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 is the 7th version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform launched in the end of 2014. Microsoft Dynamics CRM’s key focus is sales, marketing, service and help desk. However, it's highly adaptable and easily customizable to usage of both client-side JavaScript and server-side .NET code for plugins.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 is version 7 of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform launched in the end of 2014.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 doesn’t bring major changes for programmers. However, in this version, more customization can be realized simply by configuration (without programming) including enhanced business process flows, business rules, SLA enhancements and others.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 doesn’t support older software (browsers, MS Office, Windows server, SQL server etc.). Generally, it supports last two versions.

Questions asked about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 typically include those around configuration, client-side customization (e.g. forms, views, charts, dashboards, javascript etc.), deployment, or server-side development (workflow assemblies, plugins in .NET, XML, SQL etc.)


Microsoft Dynamics CRM’s key focus is sales, marketing, service and help desk. However, it's highly adaptable and easily customizable to usage of both client-side JavaScript and server-side .NET code for plugins.

Major competitors to Dynamics CRM include SalesForce, SAP CRM and Oracle PeopleSoft CRM.

The Microsoft offering can be hosted on-premise by organizations, hosted in the public Microsoft Azure cloud for a fixed monthly fee, by a Microsoft Partner or as a federated solution. This flexibility lets companies change their deployment strategy as their business needs change whilst utilizing a single organization.

End users can access Microsoft CRM in the following ways.

  1. Supported web browser, such as later versions of Internet Explorer or the latest versions of Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Using a native Microsoft Outlook plugin integration
  3. Using a mobile device (mobile phone or tablet) with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile
  4. ISV solution such as CWR Mobility

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How to push a value of an unchanged field into the target in a plugin's input parameters?

I'm deleting an instance of an entity and depending on the value of an option set in it, I wish to carry our different course of action. The problem is that the field isn't changed, hence, not provided to the plugin's target. How can I easily tell…
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How to deploy a utility DLL that is used by plugins?

I've entered a project that used the architecture where all the utility classes were stored in the same project as the plugin. That's fine as long as there's only a few plugins with different utilities. I noticed, however, that as the number of…
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CRM 2015 Server Installation Error :- GrantAspNetServiceAccountAccessAction failed

Has anyone come across this error before? Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.GrantAspNetServiceAccountAccessAction failed "The parameter is incorrect" I can't find any information about the error. We are attempting a clean installation of CRM 2015 on a…
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Filtering instances not related to the current contact

I have a custom entity Stuff and it contains a lookup to Contact. I created a 1:N relation with the latter as primary and the former as related entity. On the Contact's form I added a subgrid and I only wish to list the instances of Stuff that have…
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How does a user enable another language than the default, base one?

I went to settings and attempted to change the language in which my user will view the GUI. However, as the image depicts, there was no other choices than the base language, set by default. If that'd be an on-prem environment, I'd try installing a…
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CRM 2015 and Silverlight

I've previously created a Silverlight application for CRM-2011 and there has been samples for Silverlight in the CRM-2011 SDK. However, I installed CRM 2015 SDK and I couldn't find any sample codes for Silverlight, does it no longer support…
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Change "Opportunities" button name in navigation pane using Site Map

Is it possible that using the SiteMap to change the name of the Opportunity button that appears in the Sales navigation pane to any custom name instead of "Opportunities" ? Or this is a fixed name based on the name of the entity ?
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How to sum scheduled work hours for a user?

I wonder if it's possible to sum up a user's scheduled work hours? I have customized the user entity and added a field that I want to show the user's total defined work hours in for the current week. But I don't know how to access the entity…
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"An unexpected error ocurred" CRM2015 OnPremise Plugins

For 2 weeks we have been experiencing a small totally random issue with plugins in CRM 2015 OnPremise. When we make an upload, randomly and without much sense (at least according to analyze all code does not) plugins are throwing us the following…
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Workflow to send an email to the users within the record is shared

I am using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 on-premise version. I created a custom entity(News). The use of this entity: the system administrator can share records(News) with selected System users. My question: How to send Email Notification (to…
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Open Silverlight web resource from a button in Navigation

I need to a add a button to the navigation or ribbon area of the CRM 2015 on-premise. This button should open an existing Silverlight web resource. Is that possible ? EDIT: This MSDN article mentions that the URL holds a value of a URL or an HTML…
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Email router crm 2015

While configuring the Email router for crm 2015. when fetching the User and queues details. getting this error Email Router Configuration Manager The Email Router Configuration Manager was unable to retrieve user and queue information from the…
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CRM Dynamics 2015: Conditionally updating a field in CRM using Scribe

We are using scribe to migrate data from a source into CRM 2015 Online. The DTS will run every 15 mins. Is it possible update the fields in the target based on a condition? Currently I am following this approach: IF(S1= UserVariables,#NULL!,S1 ).…
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How to Create a Timeout In a CRM Workflow That Uses a Static Attribute Value

I'm specifying a timeout in a workflow within CRM against a particular contact attribute (Next Time To Run): Timeout until "Contact:Next Time To Run" This works great, until someone updates the "Next Time To Run" attribute. When this happens, CRM…
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CRM 2015 online, Business Process Flow, plugin error

Guys. I have a custom BPF in a custom entity. There is a plugin triggered by another entity to update this custom entity which has BPF. The problem I have now is if the custom entity(with BPF) BPF stage is not first stage, the plugin will fail with…
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