Accessing CRM Database Directly

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Posted on by Sayhaitokumar

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Hi Guys,

I'm developing Customer Portal for my client, (MS Dynamics CRM 2015, Im not using Customer Portal Managed solution, I'm in the way of gen Early bound bound class and late bound method)

I'm using Account entity to Create Username and password for them. Now the problem is how can i validate the username from the webportal?

For this scenario shall i access the CRM Database directly to validate the username and password?

or else how can i search whether a particular username is validate or not?

Give some suggestion/Idea regrading this

Thanks in advance :)

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Royal King 27,686 on at

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You have to validate user existence by using crm API or Use Filtered views of the database to check existence of the account.

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Deepesh161 6,317 on at

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I have implemented in similar scenario few years ago and used CRM webservices along with encrypting and decrypting algorithm before storing passwords.

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Sayhaitokumar 7,042 on at

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Hi chitra,

From Asp.Net im developing customer portal. From Aps.net shall i access CRM DB to validate the username and password (In order to navigate to next page in webportal ) or this will breach security breach of CRM

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Abed Haniyah 4,287 on at

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Hi ,

Please refer to : www.fmtconsultants.com/.../step-by-step-guide-to-portal-development-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm

its included a sample code for a login screen for the contacts on the CRM.

Hope this helps,

Abed.

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Hi,

We have developed portals for our client and stored user name and token over contact form, for the authentication, we used windows live authentication check this:weblogs.asp.net/.../integrate-windows-live-id-authentication-into-your-website

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Royal King 27,686 on at

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If you want to authenticate then i dont suggest accessing the crm database. If you need to autheticate user using the information that exists in the crm then you need to go with CRM API call to verify the credentials.I would suggest either implementing custom authentication using crm API or going with the suggestion provided by HIMBAP

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Sayhaitokumar 7,042 on at

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Hi Abed Haniyah,

Thanks a lot, your suggestion helped me to do this.

I did using fetchXML method for validating users.

Chitra,

I don't have much knowledge about CRM API, Could you please share any blogs for my future reference

Thanks for the help guys!!!

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