Posts in Category: crm 2015

A Scaled out CRM Solution Architecture

Recently I started work on a pretty big CRM project and I wanted to apply a more scaled out approach to my solution architecture.  CRM offers a great facility to deploy code in their solutions but when starting a new project you should always ask yourself the following questions before you starting adding entities into your solutions.

  1. What is the frequency of updates that will be requested by the users and to what components?
  2. Are there multiple users contributing to this project?
  3. How big do you expect this project to grow by?
  4. What kind of promotional model is in place for deployments?

I  have found that questions such as these generally drive the overall solution architecture I will put in place on a project.  For instance, if we are working with a client that has

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Creating a New area in CRM 2015 – By Hand

Emphasis on the “By Hand”.  I’d previously blogged about how to modify the Site Map in Dynamics365 with some of the new  ribbon editing features very reminiscent of Ribbon Bench (here for reference Site Maps and Custom Entities – Oh My!) – but recently had the pleasure of having to do this in 2015, with no tools.

The modification of the XML customizations.xml file itself wasn’t too bad on it’s own, where things really became complicated was when I wanted to add an image to my area.

Modifying the Customizations.xml File

To create your new Groups and Areas – check out this post that does a great job of walking you through how to export, modify and import the XML file (along with screenshots).

Adding an Image to your Area

Now where things went

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