Use AllColumns

by | Sep 22, 2006

When retrieving data from the CRM webservice, part of the
RetrieveRequest-object needs to have the required columns specified. In
many of the examples this field is specifically set to the columns
needed, which is the most “correct” way of retrieving the data. However,
if you aren’t experiencing performance problems the easiest way is to
use the AllColumns-class.

In short:

RetrieveRequest retrieve = new RetrieveRequest();
retrieve.ColumnSet = new AllColumns();

This is probably old news to all of you who have coded a bit. But I
thought I might write a bit about it anyway, since not all people are
experts at birth.

Gustaf

more on SubscriptionSyncInfo

by | Sep 20, 2006

Well, sometimes it’s better to look first and blog second,
I looked around a bit and found that the CRM Team Blog actually have an entry on how this works. Have a look here: https://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2006/08/15/701230.aspx

The SubscriptionSyncInfo table seems to be the place where all syncs are logged to the database. Very usefull for checking if a users sync has been successfull and how often it has been done.

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

Subscription Database tables

by | Sep 20, 2006

There are a couple of tables in the database that handle the Outlook-CRM Syncronization and the offline sync. I havn’t been able to find any further documentation on exactly how it works, but will publish any more info I find on the subject on this blog. There are mainly three normal tables concerned, namely:

Subscription
SubscriptionClients
SubscriptionSyncInfo

There are also several tables created for each user that contains their specific sync data. These are named:
SyncEntry_987F788E642CDB1184900007E94DD8DB

I would like to point out that these tables both contain info on Outlook-CRM sync and CRM Offline sync (ie Main SQL – MSDE sync).

If anyone has any more info on the subject, please contact me, I would like to discuss the matter.

If I find the time, I would like to research this a bit more. If I do, I’ll let you know…

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

by | Sep 11, 2006

JavaScripting and quick create forms
For you who haven’t already noticed, if you create an OnLoad JavaScript for Account, Contact or any other entity and it includes some sort of defaulting of field values, if this field is not compulsory, it is not included in the quick create form, hence the onLoad event will send an error when the form is loaded. So, just check that it is there first 🙂

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se