These days we all work with loads of VPCs for different purposes: development, demoing, testing... One of the main concerns when using downloaded demo VPCs is that they will expire at some point. This obviously doesn’t happen when you use your own licenses for it, but it is normal if you use Microsoft...
What is xRM? Watch the video
Thursday, July 16 2009 - Blog
Microsoft has published a really nice video that summarises the concept of xRM in one minute and a half. Definitely worth watching. During the last year I’ve been working around the xRM concept in several customers from an incredible variety of sectors ranging from Police to Car dealers, including...
1 CommentTagged as: dynamics-crm, xrm, video
Show custom warning messages on Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Tuesday, June 09 2009 - Blog
Using JavaScript is a quite common approach for client side validation and interaction on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM forms. In many occasions we need to notify or warn the user about a condition or situation depending on certain values of some fields in the form. Normally you would use a JavaScript alert...
2 CommentsTagged as: javascript, dynamics-crm, warnings
Cannot create a connection to data source 'CRM'.
Tuesday, June 09 2009 - Blog
The title of this post is a funny error message that you can get when trying to run a report. Initially you might see “Reporting Error, the report cannot be displayed”, but if you activate the show developer errors option you would see an ASP.Net error screen with some Exception traces containing the...
Starting 2009 as a renewed MVP & Microsoft Dynamics CRM Discovery Days
Tuesday, January 20 2009 - Blog
The new year has started with lots of exciting projects here at AlfaPeople , and many many ideas for cool stuff that we want to do during this year around Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I’ve had also the honour of being renewed as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Dynamics CRM again, making this...
7 CommentsTagged as: crm, discovery-days
Convergence EMEA 2008 - I'll be there
Friday, October 31 2008 - Blog
Only 3 weeks left for the Convergence EMEA 2008! This year I have the pleasure of attending again, and the honor of having the opportunity to be a speaker on a couple of sessions. Convergence is the most important event of the year for partners and customers of the Microsoft Dynamics products family...
Bulk edit for Dynamics CRM Entities
Wednesday, September 10 2008 - Blog
You probably already know about a feature called bulk edit on Microsoft Dynamics CRM that lets you modify several records at once, this is definitely a great feature that enables end users to change in bulk some values for several records. The problem is that this feature is not available for all the...
1 CommentTagged as: javascript, isv-config, dynamics-crm, bulk-edit
The CRM Book
Tuesday, September 09 2008 - Blog
I'm probably the last one to comment about this book, but I guess that is better to do it late than never. As you may already know, a fellow Dynamics CRM MVP David Yack has recently published a book called " CRM as a Rapid Development Platform " which is a very comprehensive work about development...
No CommentsTagged as: books, dynamics-crm, development, plug-ins
How to get a re-open activity button on Dynamics CRM 4.0
Wednesday, August 13 2008 - Blog
I’ve been working with Dynamics CRM for many moons, but I´m still being surprised by it from time to time. To be honest, I have to admit that is a practically endless product where you can have as many extension/customization opportunities as your imagination can produce. In fact, as some...
No CommentsTagged as: client-side, javascript, isv-config, dynamics-crm
