Dynamics CRM Tools

It’s a long time since I’m in touch with Andy Popkin from ZeroToTen. We were talking about the possibility to add multiple plugins to my XrmToolBox tool. I already announced this in a previous blog post without mentionning the exact purpose of the upcoming tools. So today, Andy released the first XrmToolBox plugin of (I hope) a long list : The Bulk Workflow Tool. You can find all information about this tool on this blog post , and you can download the plugin here . I would like to finish this post with a special thank you to Andy for participating to the XrmToolBox adventure!

Last week, I receive a request from Rob Boyers that was asking for a tool that can help him to order execution order of synchronous events, plugin steps and workflows. Indeed, in Dynamics CRM 2013, you can set the “rank” property of a plugin step to define its execution order among other steps in the same message and stage, using the PluginRegistrationTool. Unfortunately, there is no such way to edit the “rank” property of a synchronous workflow in a UI. So, here is the “Synchronous events execution order editor”, a new XrmToolBox plugin It works only with CRM 2013 and loads all synchronous plugin steps and workflows and group them by Entity, Message and Stage. When selecting a stage, you can see all events registered and you can update the rank value. Then, just click on the button “Apply update(s)” to update events on the organization. Just a note: for synchronous workflows that are activated, they will be deactivated, updated then activated back. As usual, the XrmToolBox and i...

Hi, I got the following problem after rollup installation: I couldn't publish my workflow anymore... The answer came from a Dynamics CRM Forum post: Open web.Config file of CRM website and add the following line to the authorizedTypes Xml node: <authorizedtype authorized="True" typename="CultureInfo" namespace="System.Globalization" assembly="mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"> Do an IISReset The publication should work!