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This is a great time for XrmToolBox! A lot of external plugins for XrmToolBox are coming from everywhere!! Well, they are two new plugins but they are amazing: Solution History FetchXml Builder Just click on the link to go to their CodePlex projects and download them

I’m currently in Seattle for a dedicated CRM MVP Summit, and look who’s there? All the CRM MVP family!

If you are using the latest version of XrmToolBox, then you should see this popup when launching it This was the super cool hidden feature of the previous version! It works (I’m relieved…) In this new release of XrmToolBox, there is three new features, as described below Optimization in plugin development Thanks to Daryl LaBar, one of the developer of other XrmToolBox plugins, the way to develop plugins for XrmToolBox has never been so easy. All you have to do is to create a user control that inherits from PluginBase class. All the connectivity is handle by the base class and you just have to focus on what your tool should do. Daryl added also helper classes to handle asynchronous call in a really easy way. Read his blog article on this topic . The documentation on CodePlex project page explains how to use the new development model. A new tool : Metadata Browser Even if Microsoft delivers a metadata browser solution in the CRM SDK package, it is just a pain to install thi...

And now a new version of XrmToolBox! This release includes a new plugin that will help you to apply some actions on attributes displayed in mutliples forms. The need for this tool came from a XrmToolBox user that has an entity with 180 forms. Imagine how long it takes to change one attribute property on each of these forms…. Nightmare! So, the tool will help you to change the following properties for an attribute on multiple forms: Label Visibility Read Only Lock The tool can also help you to add/remove an attribute on multiple forms. When adding an attribute, you need to specify next to which existing attribute this new field will be added. If available space, the attribute is just added. If no space available, a new row in the section is added before adding the new attribute. Some other tools in the toolbox have been fixed as some lists had a size problem (due to Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, as far as I can tell). That should now be fixed. Another great feature of the ...

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!

Again, this tool is an application for Robert Boyer, my suggestion box for XrmToolBox tools currently So, the tool allows you to select multiple roles and multiple users or teams to: Add the selected roles to selected users or teams Remove the selected roles to selected users or teams Remove all existing roles from selected users or teams and add them roles selected There is some limitations: You cannot use remove roles action on your own profile Business unit roles, that are not inherited from root business unit can only be added to users/teams in the same business unit I hope this tool will improve your productivity when the need to add or remove multiple roles on multiples users or teams comes. Here is a screenshot of the plugin: As usual, this tool is available as part of the XrmToolBox on CodePlex NB: There is also a bunch of updates for other tools, check them on the download page

Two plugins in one day! wow! This one was, in fact, developed a couple of months ago. One of my colleague was using a solution from my fellow MVP Andrii Butenko which allows to import/export NN relationships in a silverlight web resource. This was nice but my colleague was using other attributes than primary key to do the mapping and Andrii’s solution does not support this. So he asked me to develop a XrmToolBox’s plugin that could do this. And, here it is! You can select entities and relationships and moreover, choose mapping attributes on both enitities. I only let text and number attributes selectable as other does not really make sense for mapping purposes. Then you can import or export NN relationships! Here is a preview As usual, this plugin, among other, is available with XrmToolBox on CodePlex