No, the tool is not designed to be used with CRM Online. Nevertheless, you can use it "offline", save the result in XML file (Save button) and import this file using "Import Customization" feature directly in the web app.
Lately, there was a discussion on Twitter about the best practice to handle plugins: One class per plugin? One project per plugin? or anything else? On my side, I'm using one project for all the plugins for the same customer. This is what I answered on Twitter. Then came a question : How do I handle the fact that some plugins may have not been tested or completed yet and I need to release the plugins assembly. The answer was : Feature flag! What is a feature flag? It's a concept that will allow to enable/disable some features or portion of code depending on a configuration. Let's take an example where a plugin must execute two features : Feature A and Feature B public class MyPlugin : IPlugin { public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider) { var service = new MyCustomService(); service.ExecuteFeatureA(); service.ExecuteFeatureB(); } } We need to find a way to execute conditionally these methods, let's say because feature B
Two plugins in one day! wow! This one was, in fact, developed a couple of months ago. One of my colleague was using a solution from my fellow MVP Andrii Butenko which allows to import/export NN relationships in a silverlight web resource. This was nice but my colleague was using other attributes than primary key to do the mapping and Andrii’s solution does not support this. So he asked me to develop a XrmToolBox’s plugin that could do this. And, here it is! You can select entities and relationships and moreover, choose mapping attributes on both enitities. I only let text and number attributes selectable as other does not really make sense for mapping purposes. Then you can import or export NN relationships! Here is a preview As usual, this plugin, among other, is available with XrmToolBox on CodePlex
Hi, The previous post was not the last one... :) You can find in this post the first tool that will make your life easier: Just remember when you customer asked you to remove all these unused attributes form the attribute list of the advanced find form... You navigated through all attrbutes form to modify the Searchable property of each attributes for hours... (maybe am I exaggerating a bit...) The program I give you allows you to update all attributes in a single winform application! Yes it can be! Do not hesitate to give me your comments about this program if you think improvements can be done... Download:
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No, the tool is not designed to be used with CRM Online. Nevertheless, you can use it "offline", save the result in XML file (Save button) and import this file using "Import Customization" feature directly in the web app.
your tools helped me in so many ways, you sir are truly a genius!
Cheers Felix
I'm pleased having helped you!