Ayaz Ahmad - [MVP - MSCRM]

Auto Complete Recursive/Waiting Workflows – Microsoft CRM 4

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP Microsoft CRM, MBSS] — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:03:46 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides very powerful workflow designer tools to create workflows for various business scenarios. Waiting workflows are one of them. Very often, it is required to create waiting workflow on dates. So if a date is changed the waiting...(read more)

HTML Content Editor in CRM4

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP Microsoft CRM, MBSS] — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:08:24 GMT

It is often required to format and validate HTML contents in CRM 4. Here is a quick way of integrating a JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor. You can find many open source as well as 3rd part JavaScript WYSIWYG Editors. The editor I have used in my post is from...(read more)

xRM – Designing Survey Applications in Dynamics CRM

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP Microsoft CRM, MBSS] — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:59:17 GMT

I have seen many people talking about designing survey applications in Dynamics CRM. I have analysed different approaches to design survey application and their integration with Dynamics CRM 4.0. Using WSS/MOSS 2007 WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 provides a very comprehensive...(read more)

Event on Many to Many Relationship (N:N) in CRM 4

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP Microsoft CRM, MBSS] — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:24:52 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 does not expose any event when records are associated through N:N relationship. So if you want to perform some function when a record is associated to another record in N:N relationship, CRM simply excuses and you have to look...(read more)

Announcing 2nd Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP Microsoft CRM, MBSS] — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:38:31 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week is designed to offer following assistance to entrepreneurs. - Learning and building next generation business solution on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform (a rapid application development platform to reduce the cost...(read more)

Asynchronous Matchcode Generation - Forced Duplicate Detection in Dynamics CRM 4

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:44:44 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 provides a Duplicate Detection feature to protect the quality of your data. Duplicate Detection rules can be defined for different record types, including custom entities, and can be defined across record types as well. In background...(read more)

Synchronous Matchcode Generation - Forced Duplicate Detection in Dynamics CRM 4

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP Microsoft CRM, MBSS] — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:44:44 GMT

Waiting/Timed Workflow VS Windows Service

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:11:54 GMT

Developing some service or workflow to handle some periodic tasks is natural to CRM solutions. Last week, I have been looking for the best way to handle periodic tasks like sending reminders, creating tasks based on date/time, birthday notifies etc. So...(read more)

File Attachment to Notes - Dynamics CRM 4.0

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:16:24 GMT

In Dynamics CRM 4.0, file attachment to entities is pretty simple as compared to CRM 3.0. UploadFromBase64DataAnnotationRequest and UploadFromBase64DataAnnotationResponse object are both deprecated. Instead a new attribute has been introduces in annotation...(read more)

Auto Numbers in MSCRM

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:23:30 GMT

Last week I have been looking for the best approach to use auto numbers in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. After discussion with my peers I have come to the following possible options that can be used for auto numbering. Although these may not be the efficient...(read more)

Proximity Search in MapPoint – Drawing Microsoft Dynamics CRM data on Maps

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:27:29 GMT

Proximity Search allows you to find businesses located around a reference point you provide. For example, hotels or restaurants can provide the nearest location of all automatic teller machines (ATMs). Or a manufacturing company can list all gas stations...(read more)

Generate Excel 2007 Sheets from MSCRM Data – OpenXML Show

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:41:21 GMT

Office Open XML is an XML-based file format specification for electronic documents such as memos, reports, books, spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The specification has been developed by Microsoft as a successor of its...(read more)

MSCRM and MapPoint Integration - A picture is worth a thousand words.

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:48:45 GMT

Microsoft Provides MapPoint Web Service to enrich application with mapping functionality. It allows you to integrate maps, driving directions, order tracking and proximity searches into a wide range of solutions. For those of you who want to start using...(read more)

MS CRM and SharePoint 2007 Integration

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:45:07 GMT

Here is a very nice article by one of my colleagues, Rehman Gul, on MS CRM and MOSS 2007 integration. I thought to share this with all of you….you can also find the article on his blog @ http://rehmangul.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/ms-crm-and-sharepoint...(read more)

VPC Development Environment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Projects

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:17:07 GMT

After collapse of my QA server, I have been searching for various developments environment options for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 projects. As per my findings and discussion with other peer developers, most of them are using Virtual PC images for their...(read more)

Setting Default View for Account Activities???

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:13:25 GMT

I have been searching a lot in Newsgroups and forums to find this issue. Issue is “How can I set the default view when I open certain Account Activities”. The default view set is “Next 30 Days” as given in the picture below. I want to set this to “All...(read more)

Snap-ins for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

Ayaz Ahmad [MVP - MSCRM] — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:18:49 GMT

Snap-in applications enable you and your people to work within the familiar environments of Microsoft Office applications, such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, and SharePoint Server. Microsoft Dynamics Snap is a collection of products for Microsoft...(read more)