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  • 18 May

    Dynamics CRM 2011 Sub Grids with More Rows and Scroll Bar


    In Dynamics CRM 2011 we have seen how useful Sub Grids can be to display related records in line with your form. This basically takes the associated view, and shrinks it into an easy to access grid on the form, allowing you to access all important data without requiring lots of clicks.

    When configuring a sub grid, you set the number of rows the grid will occupy (how big the sub grid is). This also determines how many records will be display before you have to click ‘Next Page’.

    Dynamics CRM 2011 Sub Grids with More Rows and Scroll Bar

    As you can imagine, if you are working with many records ...

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  • 17 May

    Preventing Windows Azure Subscriptions from being disabled due to reaching spending limit


    Last month we had our Sitefinity site on Azure go completely down. On checking the Azure management portal, we found that not only was the subscription disabled but our deployment had been deleted!

    Preventing Windows Azure Subscriptions from being disabled due to reaching spending limit

    It turns out that the spending limit had not been disabled on the subscription we were using, so once we went over that limit instead of charging to the attached credit card it disabled the subscription. Unfortunately when a subscription is disabled all hosted services under that subscription are deleted, meaning our site was down for about an hour while they were re-uploading (other components under the ...

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  • 16 May

    Recording & Reporting Salesman Activity


    Reading a discussion in a Sales Manager forum I was surprised by the number of opinions listing reasons for easing reporting requirements on salesmen.

    This was in stark contrast to my own experience that call reporting and call follow-up are two key areas of the sales process.

    How can we as sales professionals be taken seriously when our leaders promote such sloppy practises as basing sales management on short weekly updates from salesmen on key accounts?

    Recording & Reporting Salesman Activity

    Let’s look at how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 can help Sales Managers and Salesmen alike with superior reporting without compromising the time taken to ...

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