dynamics-crm-2011

I currently have a workflow which is triggered when a certain decimal field is changed. Is it possible to get the difference between the old and new values via a workflow? Finally had the time to test this, and it is perfectly possible to retrieve the pre values in a workflow using a workflow assembly. Here's what I did: I created a workflow on Contact, with a trigger on LastName. The workflow contains a reference to the field lastname, and a custom workflow assembly . I opened a contact and changed it's lastname from 'Foo' to 'Bar' Code of the custom workflow assembly: protected override void

I have a report that displays names of all accounts and activities performed under each of them. AccountName: ABC Corp Activity: Installation I want to group the AccountName and get the total number of Activities performed for each account. ABC Corp: 1 How can I accomplish this in SSRS 2008? I am able to group the AccountName but I need a way to convert the Activity column to int so I can get the total. Help appreciated! You can add a total row for the Account group and give your total field the expression CountRows("AccountGroupName") , to count the Activity detail rows for each Account group

In CRM 2011 I can do the usual Create, Update, Delete operations using EarlyBoundEntities. I cant, however, seem to find an example of retrieving a list of entities using the same type of code. Is there a way of retrieving a list of items of type using EarlyBoundEntities? I've looked through MSDN and all I can find is how to retrieve an Entity if I know its GUID already. // Retrieve the account containing several of its attributes. ColumnSet cols = new ColumnSet( new String[] { "name", "address1_postalcode", "lastusedincampaign" }); Account retrievedAccount = (Account)_service.Retrieve(

I have written a Linq to CRM query using CRM 2011 RC (v5) LINQ-to-CRM provider. I have a locally declared List<T> which I want to join to a CRM entity and I want the query to be executed on the CRM Server. An example might help: MyObject myObject = new MyObject(); List<myAccount> myAccountsList = new List<myAccount>(); myAccountsList.Add(new myAccount() {AccountNumber = "123"}; myAccountsList.Add(new myAccount() {AccountNumber = "456"}; myObject.ListOfAccounts = myAccountsList; var accountsQuery = from ax in myObject.ListOfAccounts join a in orgContext.CreateQuery<customAccountEntity>() on ax

I have created a plugin and used a reference to another project (DLL) I have created. The problem is when I try to run the plugin, I get a CRM error saying: Could not load file or assembly 'XXX, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a760feb9ec7271a9' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Does anyone have any idea on solving this one? ccellar You have to deploy the referenced assembly either to the GAC or merge it with your one (with ILMerge) See also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309620.aspx and Creating a single CRM plugin DLL to store

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM service uses NTLM authentication, which makes connecting to it from a python process using suds somewhat complicated. I'm looking for a code sample that will: Send and receive the response from a RetrieveAttributeRequest Send and receive the response from an Execute request. This must use Python 2.6 or Python 2.7, not Python 3. I already have a working implementation that uses curl to do this, but it's flaky at the best of times, and as part of some other work I have in this tool I'd like to clean it up and make it run using python/suds. Dan P. I know this is a bit