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From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blogs: Primary/secondary emails; Editable grids; Price List; Hyperlinked fields

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics CRM blogs:

  • Sending Email to an Alternate/Secondary Email Address
  • Implementing Editable Grids in Dynamics 365 Step-by-Step
  • Set Default Price List Field on Product as Read-Only in Dynamics CRM
  • Creating Hyperlinked Fields in Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM

Sending Email to an Alternate/Secondary Email Address

On the CRM Viking blog, Marius Pedersen stated that if you've worked with Dynamics 365 CRM for a while, you've probably come across this issue: the system will resolve the record for whatever address you enter as a recipient and substitute the address with the primary email address of the record.

There are a few workarounds for this issue, including creating leads that can be merged into existing contacts, duplicate contacts with links, etc. However, Pedersen has developed a small plugin that lets you send an email to the address you want.

All you have to do is to compile the following code and register it as a synchronous, pre-operation plugin, and add a pre-entity image with the "to" field included. The secret here is to register it on the "send" message for the email entity.

You can find the plugin here.

Implementing Editable Grids in Dynamics 365 Step-by-Step

On InterDyn BMI's LetsTalkCRM blog, product manager Ryan Talsma explained that editable grids, a much-requested feature among members of the Dynamics CRM community, are now a standard functionality in Dynamics 365.

Editable grids provide you the ability to edit records from directly within a view without out even having ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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