I was reading around a bit and found a blog posting concerning how to make the CRM-webparts work in MOSS. It seems you have to install them the same way you installed the CRM-webparts in the Swedish SharePoint v.2, earlier, i.e. by extracting the files from the cab and installing them manually.
Please click this posts heading to go to the posting I found.
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
I recently wanted to show a dynamic SQL RS report in CRM using customization of the sitemap.
I had some problems with the dymanic functionalities of the report, which didn’t work. After some work, I found that it was due to the fact that the Reporting Server had the wrong security settings in IE, and hence was prohibited to fully use the JavaScripts that controlled the drill-down of the reports. The simple solution was to add the reporting server to Local Intranet Sites in IE.
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
XML is great! But most of you who have worked with it probably pull your hair out due to all the navigational problems and code needed to navigate through the xml-structure. Wouldn’t it be neat if there was some way to create a .NET class from an xsd-schema and load it up with the contents of a specific xml-structure? Well, guess what, there is, and it is provided by our very good friends in Redmond, WA, Microsoft.
To some of you, this might be yesterday’s news, but for those of you who havn’t tried it, you should.
I will try to explain how to do it here. In this example, we’ll be basing the .NET class on a InfoPath form. InfoPath is, as you might know, just a front-end to XML, ie. a user friendly way of creating xml-data.
Create you xml-form in any way you like. I won’t go into how exactly you do that, but
That will create a schema in the background. To export it to an xsd-file, select “Save as source files…” from the file menu and direct it to a directory of your choice, for instance, “c:temp”.
Use the file explorer, go to the directory where you just saved the files, and you will find a file with the name of your different data sources followed by the extension “.xsd” in this directory. Remember the name of the xsd-file, let’s call it “source.xsd” in this example.
Then, start up a “Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt”, go to the directory where you saved the source files, for instance:
cd c:temp
Then, using the command xsd you can create the cs-file containing the .NET-class with the following command:
xsd source.xsd /c
This will create a new file called “source.cs”. This is the file that contains the .NET class.
Now open your development project and add the file source.cs to the project. This will now give you access to the .NET class in you project. Open the file and you can see the name of your class, it should be “myFields”.
Now we want to instantiate the class with some xml-data. This is done in the following manner using c#-code.
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(myFields));
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(“c:XmlInstanceOfSourceXsd.xml”);
myFields fields = (myFields)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
Now, you can access the xml-data using the instance fields of the class myFields.
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
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