Hiding System Views CRM 4.0 – David Jennaway’s Codeplex Plug-in

Hi, I have a CRM client with the pockets to polish the applications to their needs. I, being the semi coder that I am and having little experience with plug-ins searched high and low for a tool to hide the annoying system views that cannot be removed from CRM 4.0. By pur chance I am [...]

CRM 4.0 System Requirements and Required Components

My current engagement has a lot of red tape in terms of network teams and security teams, I must admit I have downloaded the Dynamics CRM Implementation Guide and Planning Guide several times over the last few years despite knowing it was available online. At any rate Tiaan van Niekerk 0f the CRM DE LA [...]

Developer Ramp up Kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Published Videos

Great videos on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 development. found here. Most appear to be large wmv downloads. Microsoft Corporation July 2008 Summary This article contains links to presentations and labs to help developers use their existing .NET skills to build on top of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform. Applies To Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 [...]

Change Update Download the logo in Dynamics CRM 4.0

The default image is as follows: Referenced from Caesar De La Torre Blog here are some instructions for updating the logo in Dynamics CRM 4.0. This is of course a non supported change to the system. 1.- The image file is located in the following place: C:\Program Files\Microsoft CRM Server\CRMWeb\_imgs\masthead.jpg You could copy another image [...]

CRM 4.0 Hiding buttons (works with custom bottons)

Great script for hiding buttons on forms, this can be used for both custom buttons or out of the box buttons. Code is from DMCRM and can be found here. onload //Get all of the List Elements var lis = document.getElementsByTagName(‘LI’); var i = 0; //Loop through the list items while (i < lis.length) { [...]

Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

oday i wanted to customize the ‘All Members’ view on the Marketing List entity and couldn’t. I was stuck for 1 hour trying to figure out how to do this. I stumbled upon http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/04/02/customize-marketing-list-list-member-view.aspx and Jim explained it perfectly.

Add a button to a form to hide a section

A very interesting method of using a button to hide an entire section from MSCRMBLOG.net. I am thinking of a great way to use this method to hide several 1-many sections that are linked in an IFRAME.

MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 Client Configuration Wizard Fails With “Outlook Is Not Set As The Default Mail Client” On Windows Server 2008 X64

I had this issue when installing MS Outlook and attempting to use the CRM Client. This solves the error received when the client isntall claims that Outlook isn’t set as the default Email program. This article is by Joel Mansford and is titled MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 Client Configuration Wizard Fails With “Outlook Is Not [...]

Multi-tenancy and the Default Organizations

Great article by Ross Lotharius at Ascentium titled “Multi-tenancy and the Default Organization, What is it and how do I set it for users?” which provides information on supporting users and setting default organizations in CRM 4.0.

CRM 4.0 Hide Left Navigation Bar

I have been looking for a script that will hide the entire left navigation bar in MSCRM 4.0. for a custom entity. I found this forum response here and it works well! document.all.crmNavBar.parentElement.style.display = "none"; document.all.tdAreas.colSpan = 2;