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From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM blogs: Downloading attachments with Java Script; Free address validation; Folder-level tracking; Field service inventory quantities

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insights from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM blogs:

  • Downloading Dynamics CRM Attachments with JavaScript
  • Free Address Validation Tool for Dynamics CRM
  • Folder-level Tracking in CRM 2015 Online
  • Field Service - Inventory Quantities

Downloading Dynamics CRM Attachments with JavaScript

On his blog, Lucas Alexander said he recently ran into a requirement where he needed to give Microsoft Dynamics CRM users an easy way to download PDF attachments from a set of links in an iframe.

Alexander figured he'd just grab the corresponding annotation ID and pass it to the CRM download.aspx page. However, that didn't work. But the slightly more complex solution did work:

  1. Retrieve the file name and document body data for the annotation that has the attachment you want to download.
  2. Convert the document body (a Base64-encoded representation of the attachment) to a Uint8Array.
  3. Initiate a file download using the download.js library.

You can find the code that does it all here.

Free Address Validation Tool for Dynamics CRM

On his Dynamics CRM Blog, Salim Adamon said that his company, Sadax Technology, has developed a simple and free address validation add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Adamon explained that the SharpXRM Address Validation is a lightweight add-on for Dynamics CRM 2015 and 2016. The tool is used to validate the address information of CRM record such as contact, account, lead or custom entities containing address information.

"[The add-on] uses the Bing Location API to perform the address ...

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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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