Hell… it was great.. let’s do that again.

Next fieldtrip… Larapinta trail … starting from Alice Springs, Australia.
A mere 234 km hike… check out the video’s on www.larapintatrail.com

Please be aware that the solution has not left the alpha stage.
Download the code here … SharePoint4Mobile… this is a .DOC file, cause WP didn’t allow me to upload an archive.
So …  rename the download from .DOC to .ZIP and you’ll be all set.

Things you wanna know:

• It was developed against SharePoint 2007 in an BPOS environemnt… so you come across some BPOS specific tag in the ASPX  pages.
• It is mainly JavaScript, cause of the BPOS SharePoint 2007 restrictions… you can make this work using .NET better and faster I’ll bet.
• An important component I used was the 2008 SPAPI by Darren Johnstone (http://darrenjohnstone.net).

Good luck and feel free to let me know what the experiences were with this piece of code.
I’m allways open for feedback.

You may wonder why I stopped developing futher.
This has a fairly simple reason.

My goal was developing an App that enabled a user on at least iPhone or iPad to not just Open and Edit MS Office files… but Save modified files back to SharePoint.
This last feature … saving changed files back to SharePoint – is not possible with iPhone or iPad.
Read one of many articles stating what Apple had NOT done to to leverage SharePoint functionality with an iPhone or iPad.
http://blog.wortell.nl/jasper/the-ipad-and-sharepoint-%E2%80%93-what-can-and-can%E2%80%99t-you-do-%E2%80%93-part-1/

Right click the control the wher you want to start the workflow from… click Form Actions.

Add Custom Action and click Settings and the Workflow Wizard will start.

Click Variables and add a variable called something like MyListItemId.

Finish the workflow and see that the code around your control will be updated somewhat like this:

<a href=”javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent(‘__workflowStart={{FA532C23-6F80-4266-868D-1EBC219A7E11},New,{8F0B8599-4B45-421A-A4A2-9BD2817078DE},}’)}”>
//MyControl//
</a>

Here’s what you need to do to pass the variable MyListItemId

<a href=”javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent(concat(‘__workflowStart={{FA532C23-6F80-4266-868D-1EBC219A7E11},New,{8F0B8599-4B45-421A-A4A2-9BD2817078DE},MyListItemId=’,@ID, ‘}’))}”>
//MyControl//
</a>

EASY AS PIE

While developing a plug-in for CRM 4.0 triggers can be set when the plug-in can be set off using the Plugin Registration Tool.

When too many triggers are selected the following error will occur.

Unhandled Exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request.
Detail:

A validation error occurred. The length of the ‘filteringattributes’ attribute of the ‘sdkmessageprocessingstep’ entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of ’100′.
Platform

at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at PluginRegistrationTool.CrmSdk.CrmService.Create(BusinessEntity entity)
at PluginRegistrationTool.RegistrationHelper.RegisterStep(CrmOrganization org, CrmPluginStep step)
at PluginRegistrationTool.StepRegistrationForm.btnRegister_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)

What is de filteringattribute attribute?

While registering a plugin trigger in the CRM database the [<OrganizatioName>_MSCRM].[SdkMessageProcessingStepBase] table is updated.
For every plugin step a record is created in this table.
One of the attributes in this table is

[FilteringAttributes] [nvarchar](256)
NULL

During the registration of the plugin step the MetadataSchema is checked and validated a.o. the MaxLength of this attribute.

SELECT Maxlength
FROM [<OrganizationName>_MSCRM].[MetadataSchema.Attribute]
wHERE name =’filteringattributes’

By default the result of this query will be ’100′. Strange of course since the database will allow to insert nvarchar strings up to 256 characters.

A solution could be

Update [<OrganizationName>_MSCRM].[MetadataSchema.Attribute
SET Maxlength = 256
where name =’filteringattributes’

If the MaxLength is set to more then 256 a SQL Error may occur since data will be truncated.

Note: After an update IISReset /noforce is required.

Note: Above customization is unsupported and you must take precautionary measure to make sure to avoid any problem with CRM system.

• an IIS7 webserver running
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM is running on your webserver
• And there’s another site running on the same webserver.
• And both site are internet facing and need to be SSL secured

IIS Management Console doesn’t give you the possibility to do that.
You used to do this in IIS6 using adsutil.vbs

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /w3svc/<replace with your site id>/SecureBindings “:443:www.domain1.com”

IIS7 support is now delivering this option:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd set site /site.name:”<Replace with your site name>” /+bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='*:443:<replace with your url>']

Good configin’

Like this..!

Or make a registry file containing:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.js]

“PerceivedType”=”text”

If you need the name and address of a certain account or contact … you want that to be directly available… in your CTRL-V.
If you want to print using a label printer… perhaps.
Exporting it to Excel or starting the Mail Merge may be a bit much to do… you for one record.

Start using this option… an ISV button “Copy name and address to clipboard” executing a JavaScript copying certain values to the clipboard.

OnLoad

CopyToClipboard =

    function () {

        // Construct the string you want on the clipboard.

        var sClipBoard = crmForm.all.firstname.DataValue + ” ” + crmForm.all.lastname.DataValue + “\n” +

                       crmForm.all.address1_line1.DataValue + “\n” +

                       crmForm.all.address1_city.DataValue + “, ” + crmForm.all.address1_stateorprovince.DataValue + ” ” + crmForm.all.address1_postalcode.DataValue;

        // Use/Create a input area

        var oClipBoard = document.getElementById(“ClipBoard”);

        if (oClipBoard == null) {

           oClipBoard = document.createElement(“input”);

           oClipBoard.setAttribute(“id”, “ClipBoard”);

           oClipBoard.setAttribute(“type”, “hidden”);

            document.getElementById(“crmForm”).appendChild(oClipBoard);

            }

        // Put in the clipboard string

        oCopyArea.innerText = sClipBoard;

        // Now copy to the string clipboard

        var oCopyText = oCopyArea.createTextRange();

        oCopyText.execCommand(“Copy”);

        };

Make the function available as an ISV button:

        <Entity name=”contact” >

          <ToolBar>

            <Button JavaScript=” CopyToClipboard ();” Icon=”/_imgs/ico_16_132.gif” ValidForCreate=”1″ ValidForUpdate=”1″ AvailableOffline=”true”>

              <Titles>

                <Title LCID=”1033″ Text=” Copy name and address to clipboard ” />

              </Titles>

              <ToolTips>

                <ToolTip LCID=”1033″ Text=” Copy name and address to clipboard ” />

              </ToolTips>

            </Button>

          </ToolBar>

        </Entity>

CRM 4 to CRM 2011 JavaScript Converter Tool.

Like this you can learn to use and understand MS CRM 2011 Solutions, Dashboard, JQuery, BingMaps, CRM Discovery Service, usage of REST services, Web Resources,.

Here’s the direct download link of the source code.

All I needed.