Browsing articles from "July, 2011"

Dynamics CRM: Odd behaviour in grouped charts with multiple series

Jul 28, 2011   //   by Pedro Mac Dowell Innecco   //   Dynamics CRM/365  //  2 Comments

Earlier this year, I bumped into an odd behaviour in Dynamics CRM 2011, which has been recently confirmed by Microsoft to be a bug. This has been the first bug I found in Dynamics CRM 2011 and I was hoping it would be the last since I wasn’t proactively hunting for bugs. Then I came across another odd behaviour, which has been flagged by my users.

The issue concerns the dynamic filtering of list views not behaving as expected when interacting with grouped charts containing multiple series. However this one Microsoft insists it is by design. I’d like to see what others have to say about it, though.

The odd behaviour I am referring to is quite evident when viewing opportunities. In order to replicate this issue, make sure you have lots of opportunities marked as open and closed (some as won and some as lost) and for more than one owner. Read more >>

Dynamics CRM: Teams Vs Queues

Jul 27, 2011   //   by Pedro Mac Dowell Innecco   //   Dynamics CRM/365  //  No Comments

Looking into my bookmarks I came across an old forum post about when to use Teams or Queues for assigning activities. AniMandal from XRM Adventures blog came to the rescue providing an insightful answer on how and when to assign activities to teams, queues or directly to a specific user.

You can find the answer on Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM forum here.