'Display Name' of custom workflow activities

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Posted on by Ben Walker

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In Workflows assemblies which I've created recently (using new CRM dev toolkit) the 'Display Name' of the activity is showing as the GUID of the activity, whereas in the past we've managed to get these displayed with their 'friendly' names.

Here are the new ones:

And the old ones:

Am I missing some obvious step in the registration process?

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Ben Walker 265 on at

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And related to this - our old workflows are displaying with the 'friendly' name in the workflow builder, wheras new ones are displaying with the full name of the workflow class.

Here are the old ones:

and the new ones:

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Hi,

not sure what happened to the names, but did you try to change them using plugin registration tool?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328515.aspx#NameandGroupName

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Ben Walker 265 on at

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Hi Alex,

it does not seem that there is an option to change the name of a workflow step using the current version of the plugin registration tool - only to Register or Un-register:

Thanks,

Ben

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi Ben,

look under the "properties" tab (it's not under the popup menu - in that bottom half of the screen, you have "properties" and "details".. )

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Hi Ben

Did you manage to resolve this issue?

I have just upgraded my crm developer tools and seem to be having the same issue. I really don't want to manually update the names via the standalone plugin registration tool.

Kind regards

Andrew

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Ben Walker 265 on at

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Hi Andrew,

no, sorry,I didn't find a way to solve this other than through the plugin registration tool....

best wishes,

Ben

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Lone Wolf 15 on at

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Simply change and save properties

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Ben Walker 265 on at

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Thanks Lone Wolf. The issue is not really about the plugin registration tool but about the Software Developer toolkit - as you can see from the very first screenshot, when you use it to deploy from Visual studio it ignores the 'Friendly' names and gives them guid names instead - which can be fixed in the plugin registration tool but would be better if it gave them the correct names in the first place.

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