From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blogs: CRM 2013 Advanced Find; Business rules; Trace log reader; Merging entries

From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM blogs:

• Finding Advanced Find in CRM 2013;
• Creating If Then Else Logic in CRM 2013 Business Rules;
• PFE CRM Trace Log File Reader;
• Merging Entries in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Finding Advanced Find in CRM 2013

On his Surviving CRM blog, Jukka Niiranen notes that the user interface of Dynamics CRM has been cleaned up quite a bit in the latest 2013 version. And the number of buttons visible to the user has been greatly reduced in the browser client. Another significant change from a usability perspective is that Dynamics CRM now operates like any other web application or website: within a single browser window, allowing you to navigate back and forth with the browser's native buttons. However...

"The combination of these two factors has led to one side effect that may cause the users familiar with previous versions of Dynamics CRM to ask: "Dude, where's my Advanced Find?"

"In CRM 2011 the Advanced Find was always available in the main window of CRM. Unless you resized the window to a small enough size and made the Data tab of the CRM 2011 Ribbon collapse into a single flyout button, it was pretty easy to spot the familiar binoculars icon that represented Advanced Find. Being one of the most powerful features of the Dynamics CRM application, this button will have surely become familiar to all power users of CRM over the years."

In CRM 2013 the Advanced Find feature is not always so easy to locate, Niiranen says. He adds that he's seen a lot of experienced users ...