This is all new to me. I know Dynamics CRM developing more customised forms etc, you will use the Visual Studio. Also within Visual studio you can create plugins, solutions etc.
I'm more inclined to the web resources. what I have done so far, is just to upload HTML within which has an API to call a map service LIKE google but in this case its ESRI maps as a web resource into one of the Dynamics forms. This creates my map within the specified form.
This is not however the ideal way to do this, as it will mean going to every form to load HTML.
Now ESRI has a JavaScript SDK which I would imagine, I can load into Dynamics as an external plugin to have access to ESRI javascript Library.
This is where I'm stuck at the moment.
Could anyone point me to how to install an external library into dynamics visual studio?
Also, is there a way of avoiding not having to manually add html as a web resource into every forms in Dynamics?
You can upload the 3rd party JavaScript library as a web resource of type Script (JScript).
You can create the HTML resource once and reference it on all the forms, but yes, you do need to add it to each form initially.
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I am developing my first simple app in Dynamics 365, and one of my main pieces is a Web Resource that involves a lot of tweak-save-test-repeat workflow. Up to this point, every time I have made a tiny change to my web resource, I have been deploying it by opening the solution customization settings, navigating to my particular Web Resource, opening it, clicking "Text Editor" button, pasting in my updated Javascript code, and saving/publishing the changes.
This process is tedious, and I would like to find a way to automate it. I have been researching Dynamics 365 deployment tools, and I have found the CRM Package Deployer tool, but from what I can find it requires me to set up an entire deployment package (a giant XML file) comprising my entire customization, rather than the single file I am currently working on. Is there some way to automate deploying a SINGLE FILE with these (or other) tools? Or is it possible to deploy a package with ONLY A SINGLE FILE rather than re-deploying the entire solution's package each time I just change the one file?
Check out the open source alternative to the SDK's developer toolkit called Dynamics CRM & 365 Developer Extensions which you can install right into VS. It makes deployment of web resources a snap. Basically, you map individual JS/Html/Css/etc files to their corresponding web resources in CRM, and then once they are mapped all you have to do to deploy is right-click and choose Publish to CRM.
That tool is great, but if you really want to speed up your web resource development, you should use Fiddler. In Fiddler, turn on Autoresponder and setup a mapping for the file you are working on. When Fiddler sees a request that matches a mapping, it doesn't send the request to the server and instead returns the file from your hard drive. This technique offers a dramatic speed improvements for developing web resources. There's also a free tool for Fiddler called Imposter that makes the process easier. Search the web for "dynamics crm fiddler web resources" to read about this technique.
Another tool is the Web Resource Manager in the XrmToolBox It's free, a part of the XrmToolBox, and even handles pushing .map and .ts files you're doing TypeScript. It will warn you if someone else has updated the file since you have, and allows you to push, publish, or even add the files to a particular solution.
Another lightweight Visual Studio Add-in, which allows for deploying single (or multiple) web resource file to CRM without leaving Visual Studio is
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web Resources Updater:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MaratVDeykun.MicrosoftDynamicsCRMWebResourcesUpdater
There is also a commercial solution called XrmToolkit which can be set to automatically publish to CRM when you save the web resource file in Visual Studio:
https://www.xrmtoolkit.com/
How do I modify Adxstudio online's aspx file?
For example, Case Page Template is linked to an aspx file at ~/Areas/HelpDesk/Pages/Case.aspx. How do I modify that Case.aspx file? I've looked around in both CRM and Adxstudio portal site but still cannot find any aspx file.
I'm using Adxstudio online trial, version 7 and CRM Online 2016.
If you are working in an online trial of Adxstudio I suspect you won't have access to the server side code files.
If you want to edit the server side code you should download the SDK, that has all the aspx files in. You can then self host the portal, whilst having full access to the aspx files in something like Visual Studio.
Is this Adxstudio Cloud Service?
https://www.adxstudio.com/adxstudio-portals/features/cloud-hosted-saas/
If so, the answer is you cannot. For the cloud offering, you get what they give you out of the box.
If you are using the on-premise or 'standard' version - you download the SDK which contains a sample/starter project. Open that, configure the connection string and then you can edit the ASPXs (Page Templates) in the Pages folder.
I have a lot to do with nodes and edges. I need to pull from a file/store, draw the graph, and allow interaction to apply filters or rendering styles. Graph Dracula seems perfect.
Unfortunately, I have only the basic understanding of HTML, JavaScript. I feel like AngularJS or the MVC pattern in general is what I need, but it's hard for me to get started. I'm having to learn too much all at once.
Can anybody refer me to a platform or recommend a basic set of html views & scripts that I could use as a launching pad for the MVC part?
At my company we are using ASP.Net MVC to build web applications. Such applications are meant to be hosted inside an Microsoft Internet Information Services server or in the Azure cloud.
If you start in Visual Studio 2015 with File > New ... > Project and then select Templates -> Visual C# -> ASP.Net Web Application -> MVC , Visual Studio will scaffold a project that already works in principle and where you can add your content.
See http://www.asp.net/mvc for tutorials etc.
For data persistence, Microsoft Entity Framework works well with the MVC stack, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ef.aspx for more.
I'm looking for Version Control that warns a use when opening a file if that file is being modified by another user. Is this possible?
We also use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and are looking to use some kind of version control for the javascript files. Does someone has experience with using Dynamics CRM and version control?
Thank you for any information!
You could implement this in Team Foundation Server (TFS) or other version control applications that support single checkout. You will need to either manually deploy the JScript or create an auto deployment process through the SDK. TFS will need to be setup for single checkout which will only allow a single user to checkout the files at a given time. This should disallow multiple people from making edits at once. It is a good idea to appoint a single person as the build master who will be in charge of merging changes into CRM.
EDIT: JScript is syntactically very close to JavaScript. Microsoft CRM uses and has always used JScript for its form scripting. JScript is basically Microsofts version of JavaScript. Differences are discussed # What's the difference between JavaScript and JScript? and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript
Excerpt from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK:
Microsoft JScript libraries are Script (JScript) Web Resources that contain functions you can use to:
Handle form and field events.
Perform actions for controls configured in the Ribbon.
Support other functions.
I created a site in Sharepoint 2010 and exported it using "Save as template". That created a .wsp which I imported into Visual Studio 2010 and created a solution. That solution contains a web template (which is just an onet.xml file) among all the site pages and assets. So far, so good.
Now, I developed some web parts and added them to the project. Then I compiled and packaged everything, created a site in Sharepoint by selecting "Select template later", uploaded the .wsp into the site, and activated it. At that point all the webparts are created, and also the web template. So I go to the home page, and create the site with that template. But when the site is create from the template, all the web parts are deleted and replaced by Sharepoint basic web parts (Content editor, page viewer, ...).
Is there a way to include the web parts in the web template? I'm sure it's possible editing the onet.xml, but I'm not sure how.
Thanks in advance
Have you tried manually setting up your web part page after the deployment? Then you can export the site as a template and then look at the resulting onet.xml file. That should give you some clues about the changes you need to make.