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Changing prefix

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I recently attended CRMUG Focus17 and learned LOTS!  One thing I learned was that we should change the prefix from new_ to something unique to our company. 

1.  Can I do this on a go-forward basis, or would all of our current customized fields and entities need to be revised as well? 

2.  How do you do change the prefix?

Thank you!!

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    ntn32 Profile Picture
    ntn32 401 on at
    RE: Changing prefix

    Hi Barbara,

    You can do this on  a go-forward basis.

    CRM does not provide OOB to change the prefix for existing customizations. So let the old customization be there, now on use company specific prefix.

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    Gopalan Bhuvanesh Profile Picture
    Gopalan Bhuvanesh 11,401 on at
    RE: Changing prefix

    Hi

    You cannot change (using the interface) the prefix for the existing fields and entities. So, you can use a different prefix for the newly created fields and entities.

    You can change the prefix and the optionset value prefix by modifying the default publisher or creating a new publisher.

    Open the solution (information) and change the publisher to the newly created publisher.

    Please refer the following (Solution Publisher section):

    technet.microsoft.com/.../dn531193.aspx

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