Make it easier to bind to Entity objects
At the moment when you do a query via the soap service (using dynamic entities) the Entity type returned contains CRM specific property types such as EntityReference, AliasedValue, OptionSetValue etc etc.
This makes binding impossible without first converting to a bindable (internal) ty...
Improve error information returned by Soap Service calls in Silverlight
I'm developing Silverlight controls for use in CRM 2011 online. When I call the Organization Service and any error occurs it always returns "The remote server returned an error: NotFound".
My design follows the recommendations for calling the SOAP service from the CRM 2011 SDK.
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Allow sorting by columns from a LinkEntity in Query Expressions and FetchXml
At the moment sorting by columns from a link entity appears to be unsupported. It would be useful to be able to have this feature.
In other words you cannot do:
QueryExpression qe = new QueryExpression();
qe.EntityName = "mainentity";
qe.ColumnSet...
Allow Custom Headers in Views
It would be useful to be able to change the header text in views.
Our particular scenario for wanting this is something like this:
We have three entity types, lets call them Zebra, Giraffe and Monkey that are effectively subclasses of a common type "Animal"
Because there i...
Calling the CRM Online Soap Service without using the SDK.
I'm using CRM 2011 online
Can you tell me or supply some examples of how to call the CRM Soap Service without the SDK.
My particular requirement is to be able to call the service from an Out Of Browser Silverlight Application, but the information would be useful to anyone wishing...
"Number of conditions in query exceeded maximum limit" - what limit?
Hi,
I recently got the following message when trying to execute a query expression against CRM 2011 online:
"Number of conditions in query exceeded maximum limit"
I had around 200 conditions on my query expression.
As far as I can tell SQL Server either does not hav...
Add Asynchronous methods to the OrganizationServiceProxy class in the SDK
At the moment the OrganizationServiceProxy class in the SDK only has synchronous calls like Execute/Update.
It would be very handy to also have the asynchronous calls BeginExecute, EndExecute, BeginUpdate, EndUpdate etc.
Allow bulk delete job templates to be saved and re-run
At the moment if I need to run the same bulk delete I have to recreate it each time. This is time consuming and error prone.
It would be helpful to be able to save bulk delete jobs and be able to re-run them. A "bulk delete job template" if you will.
Ideally it would be nice to b...
Improve functionality of views
I was going to suggest a specific change to the CRM views to allow us to specify more than 2 sort columns. However I decided to make a more general request as the views need to be improved in a number of ways. Here is my list and I guess others can add to it in the comments (it's pretty much e...
Support Guid and Blob types
When using CRM 2011 as an application platform (i.e. XRM) it would be helpful to be able to add Guid fields and Blobs to an entity.
The Guid is useful in a couple scenarios, firstly external systems sometimes use a Guid as a key and it can be useful to store a link to an external object...