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Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual Customer Relationship Management software package developed by Microsoft. It has built in support for Sales, Marketing and Service. This tag is reserved for Dynamics CRM 4.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual Customer Relationship Management software package developed by Microsoft. It has built in support for Sales, Marketing and Service.

This tag is reserved for Dynamics CRM 4.

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MS CRM Not Saving Some Attributes When Entity First Created

I've got a custom entity in MS Dynamics CRM 4 (old, yes I know, we're planning on migrating to newer soon). I've got the "main application form" showing some of the custom attributes that are on the entity. When a new record is created for this…
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How to display custom Entity under 'Extensions' tab on workplace?

I have created a new custom entity called Sports Leagues. Now i am wondering how to display/ accessible this under 'Extensions' tab on workplace? Thanks
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How to access data in Dynamics CRM?

What is the best way in terms of speed of the platform and maintainability to access data (read only) on Dynamics CRM 4? I've done all three, but interested in the opinions of the crowd. Via the API Via the webservices directly Via DB calls to the…
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MS CRM can't add users after database restore

We have restored an old ms CRM database over a newer version. But when I try and add users which were already existed in newer version I get an error. If I delete the users from our of active directory and then try to add them to CRM it works…
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Why do we need to restart the CRM server after registering the custom workflow using Plugin Registration tool to make that work properly

Can we have any alternative way to make run-able the custom Workflow activity in Workflow steps. All the time what I do is register the dll using Plugin registration tool and then restart the server. Then only we can use the custom workflow activity…
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MS CRM recursive workflow and performance

I’m about to write a workflow in CRM that calls itself every day. This is a recursive workflow. It will run on half a million entities each day and deactive the record if it was not been upodated in the past 3 days. I’m worried about performance…
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Retrieving a single Guid in CRM 4.0

I'm new to CRM (version 4.0) and i'm trying to return a 'yearid' guide based on a given year (which is also stored in the entity).So far i've got: public static Guid GetYearID(string yearName) { ICrmService service =…
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MS CRM 4.0. FetchXML return columns even if empty

So it seems using FetchXML doesn't return a column if there is no data held for it in CRM. For example: …
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How to check if Attribute of entity is "secured" only using crm 4.0 assemblies? (field level security)

In Dynamics 2011 installation i have an Attribute with "Secured" option enabled. And I develope a software, where I use only assemblies from crm 4.0. With CRM 4.0 assemblies I can retrieve permissions (for particular user), but not prohibitions (i…
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Customizable entity not available for N:N relationships to custom entity in CRM 4.0

I have a custom entity and I want to create a N:N relationship to a customizable entity (ServiceAppointment). So I go in the custom entity > N:N Relationships > New Many-to-Many Relationship. Now in the "Other Entity" section where we can choose the…
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How to create a new record with a particular GUID

Using the Dynamics CRM I'm trying to create an instance of an entity. I would like to manually set the GUID, but if I had the attribute that is the primary key to the DynamicEntity, I get following error. Service could not process request I am…
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How to map address changes from an account to it's child contacts

I have the following question, because I can't seem to find the answer in the documentation. I am using Dynamics CRM 4.0. My problem is the following, and I might be missing something here, but: If I add an account "X" with address: Street 123 and…
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Prevent JS-Window from closing without showing a prompt

In my MS CRM 4.0-application, there are several things to do before the window is closed. So I have to stop the window from closing in the onbeforeunload-function and do my stuff in different locations. This works already, but only if I show the…
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early bound classes usage

Please excuse any irritation that may come through. So after using the early bound classes for a while now our team has noticed some cons that make early bound classes pretty useless. Issues: Slow, since it has to connect to a ws and get over…
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Access Dynamics CRM 4 SPLA (IFD) DiscoveryService from CRM 2011 IFD

We have just upgraded from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Most of the upgrade has gone smoothly, however I have some custom code (written for CRM 4) which uses the CrmDiscoveryService at the URL…
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