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• Find User with least number of Tasks due on a Date

  In this scenario, we need to find a user in a team with the least number of Tasks assigned to them on a particular date so that we can assign a newly created Task record to them. This example can easily be extended to look at all activities due on a date... Published: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 09:50 AM Tags: workflow, Uncategorized, code

• Self Referential Many to Many Relationship

  I created a Many to Many relationship to and from the User entity- nothing out of the ordinary. I then tried to programmatically retrieve the records associated to this relationship (ie, to the intersect table). I specified the following intersect rule... Published: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 04:43 PM Tags: Uncategorized, code, many to many

• Using JavaScript to assign a record

  A while back, a user on the Microsoft Dynamics forums asked how to assign a record using JavaScript . Here’s the code, remember to update the userid and recordid variables. var header = GenerateAuthenticationHeader(); var userid = "838975f4... Published: Thursday, October 08, 2009, 12:13 PM Tags: javascript, Uncategorized, code, web service

• SetStateDynamicEntity on Incident Entity

  I wrote a plug-in that needs to perform some validation when a user tries to close an Incident record in CRM and verify whether it can be closed or not. I registered it against the SetStateDynamicEntity, however it didn’t trigger. I then registered... Published: Thursday, October 01, 2009, 12:20 PM Tags: Uncategorized, plugin, code

• Querying a PartyList field

  CRM doesn’t allow a PartyList field to be queried using a QueryExpression (it doesn’t allow it using Advanced Find either). A colleague had tried to query the Campaign Response records to ascertain whether a Contact had responded to a Campaign... Published: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 02:40 PM Tags: Uncategorized, code