Tag: MSCRM2011
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When using PowerShell to pull REST data from MS CRM, escape `$filter !
Note to self. When trying to filter a REST response in PowerShell, by using the “$filter” parameter in the url (as with MS CRM 2011), you must escape the “$” with “`$”. For example: Does not work: $url=”http://crmserver.company.com/Organization/xrmservices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/ContactSet$filter=StateCode/Value eq 0″ Works: $url=”http://crmserver.company.com/Organization/xrmservices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/ContactSet`$filter=StateCode/Value eq 0″ Gets me every time, and I can’t figure out why my…
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A simple javascript/AJAX function to post a SOAP request to CRM 2011
This is a simple function that I use to post a SOAP envelope to CRM 2011. Just pass the URL and the xml (you can create that with this function) and you should be good to go
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Using AJAX and SOAP to create a CRM 2011 activity
I have posted a bunch of PowerShell scripts to interact with CRM 2011, now I am going to put up similar javascript versions. I feel that there is a lot of javascript content out there for CRM 2011, but most of it is javascript inside the actual CRM interface. I don’t see a lot of…
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How to hide a field in a SharePoint EditForm.aspx page, append a replica, add a jQuery autocomplete, and put the selected value in the original field.
If you look at this old post, you can see a technique that I used to hide a form field, and then append read-only data after it. I wanted to use this technique to hide a field in a form, append a replica with a jQuery autocomplete, and based on the selected value from the…
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PowerShell 3 – Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod, unable to set the Accept header?
With both of these commands, when I try to add an Accept header (I want to receive my CRM 2011 data in JSON format, so I need Accept=application/json) I receive the error: “This header must be modified using the appropriate property or method.” I think this is a bug. This link shows the bug, and…
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SharePoint 2010 modal dialog (showModalDialog) without an existing page
I was retrieving Activity data from a Microsoft CRM 2011 REST query. I wanted to have a popup with more information. I decided to use the built in showModalDialog. The problem was that all the examples I found showed how to popup an existing page. I wanted the modal to contain data that didn’t exist…
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Looping through a SharePoint List Column with jQuery and replacing a GUID with a name from CRM 2011
This is a very specialized piece of code, but it came together nicely, so I thought I would share it. I have a SharePoint List that has a bunch of Microsoft CRM 2011 Contact GUIDs in it. Some columns have one GUID and others have multiple GUIDs separated by semicolons. My goal was: when a…
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Using PowerShell to add a Contact to a CRM 2011 MarketingList (SOAP)
We had a user delete a Marketing List. I needed to recreate it. I went to a database backup and found the GUID of the deleted list. Then I used the following SQL query to find the GUIDs of all the members of that list: I saved the EntityId column to a text file, and…
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PowerShell script to set the State of a record in Microsoft CRM 2011 (SOAP)
I wanted to mark a meeting/appointment as completed via code. I came up with the PowerShell script below. Maybe it will be of use to some one?
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PowerShell script to create a SystemUser in Microsoft CRM 2011
I wanted to bulk create a bunch of users in CRM. PowerShell and the Microsoft CRM 2011 REST/OData endpoint make it easy. Here is a function to create a SystemUser via PowerShell