I have a CSV File on my File-System with a list of events, and I need to read the events from this File and just show them up in the Outlook calendar along with other appointments, meetings etc, that are actually in outlook.
So I don't won't to Save to the Server or Send any of these events read from file, just use the calender to show them.
Is that possible?
Thanks
No, Outlook w3ill only show the appointments that exist in the given folder.
As Dmitry noticed, the Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for that (i.e. display items that don't exists in the folder).
But you may consider displaying your own form inside Outlook instead of the built-in one for displaying events and appointments from the CSV file and Outlook calendar.
There are sevaral ways to get the job done:
Use adjucent Outlook windows. See Adjacent Windows In Outlook for more information.
Display a home page for the folder. The WebViewURL property of the Folder class allows to set a string indicating the URL of the Web page that is assigned to a folder.
ADX provides the WebViewPane layout which is actually based on the web view technology. But in that case you will be able to use any.Net controls on the form.
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I have a requirement to setup customized printable for few Custom Modules to let the record owner print the details of the currently opened record, similar to Invoice Template or Sales Order Template.
Use Case:
Record Owner opens a record from Custom Module
A custom button Print Record will appear when a record is opened
On clicking the Print Record button, a PDF document with data of the opened record must be generated based on a template (similar to Invoice template) and either download the generated PDF record owner's local drive or send the generated PDF to a specific email address
Is there a way to set up Invoice Templates for Custom modules? It can be achieved with Mail Merge but I need the outcome as a PDF document and with Mail Merge doing that would require several clicks. I need the PDF to be generated on a single button click.
Also, can the aforementioned use case be automated? Automatically generate a PDF based on a template periodically and send it by email without the user having to navigate the record and print the PDF manually?
I would appreciate any guidance on this use case.
I'm completely new to the Dynamics CRM environment.
Within our current implementation, there is a grid which displays a list of current sales opportunities. Within this grid, there is a column for the user which is a link to another part of Dynamics. We want to instead be able to open a new window to another system. How can I customize how that link gets rendered out so that the client "onclick" function can link to a javascript function which will open a new window with the URL we need?
Please see attached:
Snapshot of Dynamics grid
Im afraid that this is not possible with supported customization.
My understanding is that you will keep URL to external system on entity and you would like to be able to open with single click from grid displaying this record?
However, Im not sure if you add this fields as single line of text with format option URL won`t work as expected. If this does not work, you would need a custom grid to display this data.
You can store url in text field with format URL, click on such field will open link in new window/tab.
When I create a new appointment from the context of a saved incident it defaults the "Required Attendees" field to the incident's account. I want it to default to blank or the current user. (To create the appointment I used the navigation pane on the incident to view related activities then use the ribbon button add new activity.)
Where can I control that behaviour?
I tried looking at the entity mappings but it appears there isn't a "mappable" relationship for the "RequiredAttendees" field. (I checked as per the instructions here: http://rc.crm.dynamics.com/rc/2011/en-us/on-prem/5.0/help/ui_cust_Mapping.htm) Have I missed something or is this a hardcoded CRM-ism?
Going forward do I have any options to modify this? I suppose I could do javascript on form load but I'd prefer this be configurable inside CRM without touching javascript.
I think that best solution is to use onLoad javascript. Just check that Appointment is created from Incident form. (In Url - Type=112)
You can rewrite ribbon button on Incident form to open new window with URL
http://myCRM/myOrg/main.aspx?etc=4201&extraqs=%3fcontactInfo%3d%26etc%3d4201%26pId%3d%257bB8C55089-26D7-E111-93D4-005056986118%257d%26pName%3dCaseName%26pType%3d112%26pagemode%3diframe%26preloadcache%3d1346939630259&pagetype=entityrecord
So just exclude:
partyaddressused%3d%26
partyid%3d%257bA9D02C74-26D7-E111-93D4-05056986118%257d%26partyname%3dAdministrator%2540crm.local%26
partytype%3d2%26
This part of url contains data related to activity party ('required' field).
I have never wrote a firefox addon so I am wondering if this can be done. Is it possible to continually scan a webpage for certain text, and then if that text appears, capture it and save it to a file?
For example
Say a user is on amazon and adds a few items to their shopping cart.
They click checkout and fill in their details and click submit order.
When the order is processed the user is shown the text 'Order complete' and given a receipt of their purchase.
In this example I would like to keep scanning the webpage until 'Order complete' appears. Then I want to capture the html of the receipt and save it to a file.
Is this possible with a firefox addon?
From my experience as a Firefox user, this is definitely possible. As a matter of fact there are add-ons that do far more than that.
For example, Greasemonkey can actually act as a filter and change the content of a viewed webpage as specified by a user script. Zotero and AlertBox are able to selectively watch specific HTML elements for interesting information and act upon it.
It is also quite possible that there is an existing add-on that either does what you need already, or can be used as a basis for a custom add-on of your own - what you are asking for is not all that unusual...
You probably want to create your add-on with the Add-on SDK. You can then use the page-mod package to attach a content script to Amazon pages. The content script should check whether it got loaded into an order confirmation page - and send the HTML code of that page (probably document.body.innerHTML) back to the extension.
The extension then needs to write the data to a file. You need to use internal API for that, something like this:
var file = require("file");
var writer = file.open("c:\\foo\\bar.html", "w");
writer.writeAsync(data);
If you want the user to choose the file name, you can do this using chrome authority and nsIFilePicker component.
I want to create a custom form in Outlook 2007 and then have that form be the form that comes up when the user clicks New / Mail Message in the toolbar. Is there a way to do that? I know how to create the custom form, but I don't know how to change what the menu item does.
Jon
If you are using an outlook form you can publish it to the Organizational Forms Library and the get you clients to use that new custom form instead of the default out the box form. It a registry change that points it to a new form. There are tools to do this change for you.
A good example http://www.petri.co.il/customizing_new_meeting_request_outlook_form.htm
76mel
There is a great tutorial by Ty Anderson on that located at devx on replacing the standard AppointmentItem inspector with a custom form.
Basically, you need to write code that gets triggered on the NewInspector event and display your form instead and cancel the standard inspector.