Sunday, December 30, 2007

Price calculation in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Here I will give an overview of how price calculation in Microsoft Dynamics CRM works. This covers the product catalog with pricelists etcetera, but also the end-user experience for this (opportunities, quotes, salesorders).
I've searched a lot on the web, but couldn't find any good resources about this (and it's not all that self-explaining...)

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Pitfalls on converting an opportunity to a quote to a salesorder

This post will explain some pitfalls on converting an opportunity to a quote, or converting a quote to a salesorder in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Actually, it will explain some unexpected (unwanted) behaviours around these three entities in general...

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A "supported" way to manipulate main views with Javascript

Here I will describe a "supported" way to manipulate main views with Javascript in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. That is, how to get my own Javascript into a main view.
When searching the web and asking some people it seemed not possible to do this without either editing the aspx pages or use advanced technologies like implementing a http handler, which is all definitely unsupported. But, late at night, when I couldn't sleep (don't worry, it was not because of this subject), I thought of a solution which is not unsupported (at least, not that unsupported)...

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My first blog post (ever)

Hello. Well, this is my first blog post. Actually, it is my first blog post ever...
With everybody around me having his own blog, I thought it's now the time to start my own. I have no idea how this blog will grow, but my intention is to make it a blog with "professional" content about my experiences in software development.
Wel, so far my first post. Let's see how soon I will post the next...