dynamics-crm-2011

I have 3 entities, one of them contains many records, the other two are lists of those records. My aim is to create long lists and a short lists of those candidates. I can create long lists of course with n-n relationship. I add records to the long list with "add existing record" button. But, I have to create the short lists which select their records from the items from specified long lists. User will first eliminate most of the records and add them to the long list, then eliminate those ones from the long list and add them to the shortlist. To fully specify it: Record entity: x1,x2,x3.......

I'm having a look at the best way of updating/retrieve entities from within C#. I've had a read through the MSDN documentation but unsure which way to go/when to use either method. So, my question: Should I be using: IOrganizationService.Update() and update the entity directly; or IOrganization.Execute() and create an update request And if the answer is 'it depends', what situation warrants which method? Thanks First of all both Update and Execute of an UpdateRequest produce the same result. The main difference is that an UpdateRequest can be batched using the ExecuteMultipleRequest With the

I created solution in MS Dynamics CRM, then exported it as managed and unmanaged one. Decompressed both and I ran diff tool on customizations.xml files. And there are too many difference between them, it's hard to say what exactly what was changed and why. Are these changes are crucial? May I create managed solution just by changing value in <Managed> tag to 1 instead of 0 ? Will it be safe? If you are shipping your solution to customer packaging a proper Managed Solution "with proper publisher and version" will be very critical part. If you'll go deep into customization you'll understand that

I'm working on Ms Dynamics Crm 2011 development and I encountered following problem. My situation: I want to be able to automatically send an Email after a change on a specific status field on a record of the Entity "MyEntity". "MyEntity" has an Email-field. I try to create a workflow which sends an Email to the Email-field address of the "MyEntity" record after the status has been changed. My problem is that I can't add in the Email Creation workflow to the "To" field this "MyEntity" Email-field adress. I need to somehow specify in the workflow to dynamically add the "To" field, the relating

I have a CRM 2011 installation that experiences a huge spike in I/O at a certain time of day (11 am). I have a good suspicion that it's the default Rebuild Index Job. Everything is at default values, and the latest applied update is RU13. Sql is sql 2008 r2, sp1. I've found this MSDN blog and also other sources suggesting updating the default job's schedule to run at night, or not at all. But I haven't been able to find what is the default schedule for these default CRM jobs. I understand they are executing daily, but when? at 1am, 1pm, 1h after service start? Also, is there a way to view