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SharePoint/Project Server 2013 – How to Archive Completed Projects

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This article will cover segregating projects by status so that it is easy to only see active projects or completed projects etc, although I will cover creating fields and views which will be useful to some. I would like to thank Andre’s Microsoft ECM Blog and specifically, the ‘Archiving completed projects in Project Server 2010 or 2013’ post which covered these steps.

If you’ve found this article then you will likely need to follow the first three sections below to get everything set up as required. Once that’s done though you may use the last section – “Archiving Projects” to archive future projects.

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Dynamics 365 – Hiding Navigation Groups based on User Permissions

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I thought this would be a straightforward request to deal with – “We need to hide Sales, Marketing and Settings for some users”. But when you actually start to get into it you’ll quickly realise that at least the Sales and Marketing groups both contain ‘Contacts’ as well as a few other shared entities which means you can’t just hide it by not allowing access to the entities shown in the grouping.

The solution is to use XrmToolBox which I’ve briefly covered in an article before – Useful CRM 2013 Tools – and specifically the SiteMap Editor Plugin which will allow us to set custom permission requirements to view the links within the navigation groups and hide them easily.

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Dynamics 365 – How to Change the Default Email Font

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I recently had a requirement to change the default font used by emails in Dynamics CRM from the rather ugly defaults to something a bit more presentable, there are a few ways to go about this which I’ll mention, however, the method I’m going to cover in detail uses only OOTB customizations rather than a hacky JS function.

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Dynamics 365 Portals – Automatically Associating Contacts When Matching Email Found

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As part of a current development project for a support desk utilising CRM Portals we had a requirement to allow the system to automatically associate a new B2C login with an existing contact if the email address matches.

I was admittedly worried this could be a difficult thing to do well, however, CRM Portals actually makes it extremely easy providing your email claims are linked to the primary email field in CRM.

In this article, I’ll cover the setting required to make this work.

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Dynamics 365 – Closing an Incident/Case Automatically Based on Status and Time Waiting

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Today I’ll be demonstrating a simple method to close a case automatically if it remains in a specified Status for a certain length of time. This is particularly useful if you want to close cases if, for example, they haven’t had a reply from a customer within two weeks or similar.

To do this you will require the permissions to create workflows and fields on the case entity.

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Release of ‘GetGUID’ Custom Dynamics CRM C# Workflow Step

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This small custom workflow step allows you to get the GUID of any record within a workflow whether built-in or a custom entity.

The project and all source code are available on GitHub, feel free to use it in any manner you see fit.

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Dynamics 365 – CRM Portals Entity Form Action Button Filter Criteria

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I recently had a user requirement which required functionality that wouldn’t be possible using the CRM Portals built in ‘Case Reopen’ button which led me to recreating the functionality using a custom Workflow Action Button. Although that worked functionally it did have a problem.

I needed to filter the buttons visibility based on fields within the case record.

There is the ability to filter button visibility in Portals but there is no official documentation regarding the feature, which is called “Filter Criteria”.

In the article below I will cover how this actually works and how you can use it yourself.

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Dynamics 365 – Full List of Dynamics Portals Site Settings

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It’s not easy finding an up-to-date list of the available site settings utilised by Dynamics Portals or at least I’ve not had much luck in finding one, so this is a first attempt at creating a list. If I’m missing any feel free to comment below and I’ll get them added in.

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t lend itself very well to showing tables with a large quantity of information so I would suggest using your browsers search functionality if you’re looking for a specific setting.

And finally, I’m sure there are many more Site Settings that are supported but I’m yet to use them and can’t find a single reference point which lists all of the currently available values.

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Dynamics 365 – Web Portal Activities not Appearing in Cases

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Hey All, today I’ll be going over another minor issue I came across whilst setting up a Dynamics 365 Self-Service Community Portal, although I have seen reports of this issue affecting all instances of the Dynamics portals.

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