CRM 2011

Unsupported Customisation: Importing CRM 2011 Managed Solution to CRM 2015

Andre MargonoMicrosoft CRM, , , ,

Recently I worked on a piece of demo that requires a solution from codeplex with a solution file that have not been updated for CRM 2015. What I have left is the CRM solution that the author exported from CRM 2011 and what I have for the demo environment is a new CRM Online tenant that based on CRM 2015. While I could reverse engineer of the author’s works to fit into CRM 2015 solution (thanks to the author that providing the source code in Codeplex), but what I would like to know is whether the customization will works fine in CRM 2015 or not. So for testing I would like to import it into my demo org. As I posted before on the CRM solution compatibility matrix, CRM solution that exported from CRM 2011 definitely could not be imported to CRM 2015. This will throw an error as “You can only import solutions with a package version of 7.0 or earlier into this organization. Also, you can’t import any solutions into this organization that were exported from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 or earlier.“

Given I know the content of the solution majority are just web resource items, such as html pages, javascript files and CSS files, plus the customization still follow CRM 2015 best practice, the problem just coming from the solution that contain these items was exported from CRM 2011. So, after thinking a while and reading through each components of the solution, I found out that the component that restrict the solution import was coming from the version and SolutionPackageVersion attributes in ImportExportXml element in solution.xml. So, I tried to change it with the value that I derived from a CRM 2015 solution:

<ImportExportXml version="7.0.0000.4013" SolutionPackageVersion="7.0" languagecode="1033" generatedBy="CrmLive" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

Voila, now I could get the CRM 2011 solution to be imported to my CRM 2015 environment.

NOTE: Don’t ever try this for production environment and I share this only for testing/demo purpose only. Please always use the supported customization way.

Solution file (.sln) lost CRM Developer Toolkit Instance

Andre MargonoCRM 2011, IT Study, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, , , ,

I’ve encountered this issue several times (especially when we are check in to TFS), that the solution file is not merged properly, and for some reason the developer toolkit bind is removed.

 
To fix this, edit .sln file using notepad/any text editor, then add:
 
GlobalSection(CRMSolutionProperties) = preSolution
  SolutionIsBoundToCRM = True
EndGlobalSection​
 
In Global, after:
 
GlobalSection(TeamFoundationVersionControl) = preSolution

 

MS CRM 2011 – Hiding a Group of Ribbon on Specific State

Andre MargonoCRM 2011, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, , , ,

Today I come up with another task to only show the button on a group only when the record has already been saved.
After some times reading at the CRM 2011 SDK documentation and some time searching for clue, I found a solution.


The above pictures are the desired result. The button should be shown after the record has been saved.

So the changes to the Ribbon XML can be like this:

<RibbonDiffXml><CustomActions>  <CustomAction Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.MaxSize.CustomAction" Location="Mscrm.Form.campaignresponse.MainTab.Scaling._children" Sequence="150"><CommandUIDefinition>  <MaxSize Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.MaxSize" GroupId="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.Interaction" Sequence="21" Size="LargeLarge" /></CommandUIDefinition>  </CustomAction>  <CustomAction Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.CustomAction" Location="Mscrm.Form.campaignresponse.MainTab.Groups._children" Sequence="115"><CommandUIDefinition>  <Group Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.Interaction" Command="Mscrm.Enabled" Title="Interaction" Sequence="85" Template="Mscrm.Templates.3.3" ><Controls Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.Controls">  <Button Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.Form.Interaction.Button.AddGuest"Command="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.Form.Interaction.Command.AddGuest"ToolTipTitle="Tip"ToolTipDescription="Add Guest"LabelText="Add Guest"Alt="Add Guest"Image16by16="/_imgs/ribbon/AssignRoles_16.png"Image32by32="/_imgs/ribbon/AssignRoles_32.png"TemplateAlias="o1" /></Controls>  </Group></CommandUIDefinition>  </CustomAction></CustomActions><Templates>  <RibbonTemplates Id="Mscrm.Templates"></RibbonTemplates></Templates>  <CommandDefinitions>  <CommandDefinition Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.Form.Interaction.Command.AddGuest"><EnableRules></EnableRules><DisplayRules>  <DisplayRule Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.Interaction" /></DisplayRules><Actions>  <Url Address="$webresource:pages/addGuests" PassParams="true"/></Actions>  </CommandDefinition>  </CommandDefinitions><RuleDefinitions>  <TabDisplayRules />  <DisplayRules><DisplayRule Id="Mscrm.ISV.campaignresponse.CustomGroup.Interaction">  <FormStateRule State="Create" InvertResult="true" /> <!-- THIS IS THE TRICK --></DisplayRule>  </DisplayRules>  <EnableRules /></RuleDefinitions><LocLabels /></RibbonDiffXml>