In IS version 7.10.38.9-LTS price list import converter has hardcoded US locale value for name and description fields.
Resulting backend for German language looks:
Is this issue meant to be localized in future versions?
So that we can choose option to adapt either CSV files or override/create own converter template.
PriceListCSVConvert.isml:
<description xml:lang="en-US"><isif condition="#isDefined(data:PriceList_Description)#"><isprint value="#data:PriceList_Description#"></isif></description>
Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.
A bug ticket has been created, and we will evaluate it later this week.
As far as I know, it has been like this for a very long time and we never heard about issues with it.
If I interpret the other csv templates correctly, it is only possible to import an attribute (for example price list description) in exactly one locale and you would like this locale to be customizable, is that correct?
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My requirement is to get the "created date" / "modified date" of a dataset on a web page into a .xls or .csv file.
The URL is: https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare/Agency-For-Healthcare-Research-And-Quality-Nationa/sdhm-um6i/about
From this web page, I would like to import created date which you can see on the right side using script task in SSIS.
I have tried using excel data -> import from web . It doesn't work!
It would be of great help if someone has any suggestions on this.
Thanks
There is nothing native to SSIS for parsing web pages like this. That said, I hope you like .NET coding.
I've done something similar with the Html Agility Pack Work through their documentation and examples to understand the basics of how to parse HTML with their library.
Once you have that settled, it's a simple matter of determining the path to the element(s) you desire. I have found the best approach to be open the page with Chrome, right click on the thing of interest and choose "Inspect Element". Expand fields until you get to the thing you're after and then right click in the inspector window and select Copy XPath
That results in the following xpath selector
//*[#id="aboutSection"]/div/div/div/div[1]/p[1]/span/span
I'd then use it in code like
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(this.html);
string createDate = string.Empty;
createDate = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//*[#id="aboutSection"]/div/div/div/div[1]/p[1]/span/span").InnerText.Trim();
You'll need to fiddle with the exact mechanics of the SelectSingleNode call but that's the general concept. You might also notice that you have an attribute data-rawdatetime with a value there. I'm guessing that's epoch date but if you can translate that to the presented value of "Oct 20, 2011", you might be better off as that numeric value won't be dependent upon regional settings.
Not really that easy question here. :)
A customer has a field ownerid that is used as the lookup to a salesperson. I've changed the text of the label from Owner to Hazaa and I can see it take effect.
The problem is that Hazaa only displays in the English version (the base language of the installtion), while the language that is used for the users is Swedish. The users with Swedish language selected see the default translation, while they'd like to see Hazaa instead.
How can this be done?!
I could, perhaps, play around with exporting the language for translation, editing it and, then, importing back. However, that's a little, tiny, wimsy bit overkill for changing a single label. However, I suspect that only a few entities will require hazaa-fication of the ownerid field, while the rest is supposed to be left as is.
The supported way to translate the label is using the translation process (an example can be found here)
Maybe you can consider to create an unmanaged solution that contains only that entity, in order to export only the necessary labels.
There is also a tool recently released by Tanguy Touzard in his toolbox, I didn't use it yet, but you can find more information here:
http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-xrmtoolbox-plugin-easy-translator.html
The XML returned from direct REST calls to Connections 4.0 returns dates like so, from a File:
<published>2013-08-06T15:00:08.390Z</published>
<updated>2013-08-15T15:30:20.367Z</updated>
<td:created>2013-08-06T15:00:08.390Z</td:created>
<td:modified>2013-08-15T13:16:59.151Z</td:modified>
<td:lastAccessed></td:lastAccessed>
and from a File Comment:
<published>2013-08-08T18:04:44.949Z</published>
<updated>2013-08-08T18:05:39.566Z</updated>
<td:modified xmlns:td="urn:ibm.com/td">2013-08-08T18:05:39.566Z</td:modified>
<td:created xmlns:td="urn:ibm.com/td">2013-08-08T18:04:44.949Z</td:created>
The API documentation is vague about the conditions under which these dates are set:
<td:created> Creation timestamp in Atom format.
<td:modified> The date that the comment was last updated. Timestamp in Atom format.
<updated> The date that the comment was last updated, as defined in the Atom specification.
<published> The date the comment was initially published, as defined in the Atom specification.
Can one assume that <published> == <td:created> and that <updated> == <td:modified>, as the data seems to indicate, or are there circumstances under which these dates would have different values? Does the answer to this question vary by application (Files, Blogs, etc.)?
Edit
<updated> and <published> are Atom-defined properties. The <td:...> ones are IBM's extensions.
Another way to ask my question might be, What descriptions or definitions would I use to explain each of these dates to a user?
Whilst td:created and published are generally identical, with the foremost exception of content created as a draft and later published, applications use td:modified and updated with slightly different semantics. In Wikis for instance updated reflects the time page contents or metadata last changed, while td:modified is only updated when page contents i.e. title or text are updated. I expect the API documentation to clarify these subtle details, if not please post comments and ask for improvements.
Two questions, hopefully with similar answers.
I'll be releasing a JavaScript package in my solution where the error messages are to be displayed. The problems is that I'll be targeting German, English and French. Possibly, also a fourth language TBD. What would be the nicest way to resolve this?
The label names should definitely be localized. Is there a built-in approach to that in CRM 2011? Like a resource table or something like that?
My current solution for (1) is to keep an extra web resource with the strings and distributing a different file for each language. I may rebuild it and distribute all the languages at once and only use a parameter, possibly settable from the GUI if I create a settings-entity. A bit cumbersome.
My current solution for (2) involves a lot of praying and a divine act of some sort. :)
To determine current CRM user language dynamically from Javascript you can use window.USER_LANGUAGE_CODE (this variable exists on all CRM pages) - for example it will be equal 1033 for English. Than based on that info, you can pick needed string resources from your file.
Also in forms context there are two predefined functions, which return current Organization language code and current User language code: Xrm.Page.context.getOrgLcid() and
Xrm.Page.context.getUserLcid() .
If you are talking about custom entities and fields, you can easily add localized display names for them via your solution. You need to edit customizations.xml file from your unzipped solution. For each attribute there you will find such XML containing display names:
<displaynames>
<displayname description="Created By" languagecode="1033" />
</displaynames>
You can just add new display names for each language you need there.
P.S. If someone interested in different aspects of multilangual support for Dynamics CRM 2011 solutions, I strongly recommend to review this page, also here and here is a very helpful reading.
I want to create visuals along the lines of CNN's "red-state, blue-state" shadings of the states in the U.S. for my project. I'm planning to do something fancier than just shading the state's shape in a color. Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons (or - if not open source - others) that I can import into Word, Excel, etc. that I can use to show complicated graphs based on states?
I have Map Point, but haven't been able to figure out how to shade the states in a complex way.
you could try google charts, it looks like http://www.woot.com is doing something similar to what you need
Here is a good example using google maps... I've used code like that before.. perhaps from this exact example.
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_states2.htm
EDIT: you might want to consider converting the states.xml into JSON... it'll be smaller (136k of XML right now!) and should load faster in most browsers.
There might be a couple parts to the question you are asking, but to address the first part "Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons...", here's a resource to check out:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_of_the_United_States
It's a list of various SVG(scalable vector graphics) files which can be imported into a number of applications. Basically a giant xml representation of lines and endpoints. This can be directly converted to XAML, if you're into a more programmatic way of charting(ie, C# w/ Silverlight).
However, to address the second part regarding MS Office, Visio can import SVG files for manipulation as well. I'm unsure what type of graphs you were looking for, but I hope this can assist in some small way on your path to awesomeness ;)