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Scribe: Moving DTS from one location to another and changing source file location in Scribe

Written by Mohamed Ibrahim Mostafa on 22 August 2009 — Leave a Comment

A challenging issue with Scribe is how to move a DTS (job) and source files (in case source is a text batch file) from one location to another or from one server to another without loosing mappings, corruptingdata links, lookup criteria, user variables, loosing fields names and basically corrupting the whole DTS.

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Scribe Console: Renaming Source Text files before running a job and after processing and regularly changing source file names.

Written by Mohamed Ibrahim Mostafa on 11 August 2009 — Leave a Comment

Have you ever looked in Scribe Insight for a way to rename a source file before processing it. Scribe console creates collaborations where integration processes can be configured so that they wait for a file to be added to a specific location and then run a specified job. Once the file is added the job will run and process the file. Also, Scribe DTS jobs can only be setup to process a source file that has its name always fixed and unchanged. So a DTS can be setup to process a source file named: customersdata.txt. It will never run if another source file is added to the location the Scribe console is looking at. In this case, if you get a source file with the date (and time) stamp in its name will need to rename it so the the DTS can detect it and run. So if the source file comes with time and date stamp that varies every day (for example: customers_1453_21092009.txt), you will need to rename “customers_1453_21092009.txt” to “customersdata.txt” only to get the DTS to work.

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

Written by Mohamed Ibrahim Mostafa on 31 July 2009 — Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Using the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Written by Mohamed Ibrahim Mostafa on 7 April 2009 — Leave a Comment

If you ever want to know the name of a html element (html element id) you will most probably need Internet Explorer developer toolbar. IE developer Toolbar is a free Microsoft product that you can download from Microsoft’s download website.
Once you download and install the toolbar, you can view it by clicking at view –> [...]

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