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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 field level validation using javascript regular expression on client side handling the onChange event to validate and check the value and text of a CRM 4.0 field

Please note that this post is aimed as showing how to use javascript regular expression field level validation in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The post does not focus on the many ways of getting a regular expression. The example regular expression below is used for explanation only.
If you want to create validation at field level in [...]

Click through to CRM records from SSRS custom report for Microsfot Dynamics CRM 4. Linking information on SQL Reporting Services custom CRM reports to Dynamics CRM 4 records and opening them up from within the report.

Click through to CRM records from SSRS custom report for Microsfot Dynamics CRM 4. Linking information on SQL Reporting Services custom CRM reports to Dynamics CRM 4 records and opening them up from within the report.

Hide tab in any entity form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 using Javascript in onLoad event of the form.

Hide tab in any entity form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 using Javascript in onLoad event of the form.

Return and display picklist value (display value) in custom sql report reporting services report in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 entity attribute and StringMap picklist values table

Normally, you should be able to get the picklist display value and picklist item id in the filtered view of any entity. In some cases, you may need to work with StringMap table directly to get the picklist values for a specific field of a given entity. This could be the case if you are [...]

Hide, Display, Resize and Rename left navigation links, CRM fields and attributes using Javascript for Microsoft Dyanmics CRM 4.

Scripts for Resizing, Hiding and renaming left navigation links, fields and attributes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 using Javascript.

Script to Hide Add Existing Record button and Add New Record button using Javascript in Microsoft Dyanmics CRM

Script to Hide Add Existing Record button and Add New Record button using Javascript in Microsoft Dyanmics CRM

Methods to Bulk Delete Microsoft Dynamics CRM records and Using Scribe Insight to perform a Bulk Delete of all CRM records.

I’m sure many people needed to do a bulk delete operation on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. You may have uploaded thousands of records from an imported file or migrated them through Scribe or even used a .NET application to mass create records.
Unfortunately, and as far as I can see, there is no straight forward way [...]

SCRIBE: Return the GUID of an entity record in Microsoft Dynamics CRM using a lookup field value.

I am working on an Integration project between Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SAP. I am using Scribe as the Integration tool/application.
The source in this case is SAP. The target is Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I am using Microsoft Dynamics CRM Scribe Adaptor.
I’m not an expert in Scribe (as yet) and I wanted to do a simple [...]

Creating left navigation menu items (Links) to other entities on an entity form in Microsoft CRM 4

This is a short and quick post. If you have an entity and you want to add a link to the left hand side navigation menu of its form, then you can do this by one of two things:
1) Using ISV.CONFIG if this link is to an external website, application, etc.. This was discussed in [...]

Hiding Left Navigation Menu Items in an Entity Form using Javascript in Microsoft CRM 4

This is just a follow on from my previous post (http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/07/30/renaming-left-menu-items-leftnav-entity-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4/). In this post, I explained how to rename left menu items in an entity form using javascript.
These links are created when a new N:1 relationship is created between two entities. The primary entity in this relationship will get a new left navigation link everytime a [...]