I am new to CRM online. I am trying to add a button on the ribbon. To help with that, i initially tried using Visual Ribbon Editor; But when i exported the solution, the RibbonDiff didn't show me complete set of entity ribbons. So i tried to directly export the application ribbon from CRM online. For this i followed the standard process - a) created new solution b) used 'Add Exiting' and added the application ribbon c) exported the solution. When i opened the 'Customisation' xml, it doesn't show me the complete RibbonDiff definitions. I am missing something here?
Thanks,
Vijay
When you export any customization it will only contains the differences from the standard ribbon definition.
You can find the complete ribbon definition inside the SDK, the exact folder is
resources\exportedribbonxml
However to create a new button (and not editing an existing one) isn't necessary to have the complete ribbon definition, just follow this tutorial
https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/lostinthoughtsofcrm/archive/2013/01/18/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-adding-a-new-custom-ribbon-button.aspx
or use another tool, as Ribbon Workbench for Dynamics CRM 2011 by Scott Durow
http://www.develop1.net/public/page/Ribbon-Workbench-for-Dynamics-CRM-2011.aspx
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On an out of the box sharepoint online site i can find on the document library under the "New" button the most common office documents like word, excel, powerpoint and so on.
but as soon a i add an additional content type to the library. I can find the the created content type, for example the picture, but only word document and the other office tyoe like excel and pp are gone. After i remove the picture content type all type of office files a showing up again.
Why is that, and how i can bring back the excel an other office types on the new button.
thanks
This has already been answered here:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/a/192058
As it turns out, these "content types" comes from Office Online Server
(formerly knows as, Office WebApps Server). The only way to change
them is by adding custom content types. That goes from reordering as
well.
If you only have the default document content type then the new button
will default to the 4 basic documents that can be created in Office
Online server. If you add custom content types then the assumption is
that each custom content type has a custom template associated with
it. So then the New button will default to showing you the different
document templates associated with each content type. This is all by
design,
Paul Stork on O365 Network
I'm working with a Sharepoint project that was migrated from 2007 to 2010. There is not history on who originally created the project or how they did this. So, if the original developer used a Visual Studio project to add custom code to the form, that VS project does not exist.
Is there any way to tell if an existing form has custom code written for it? If I want to add my own custom code, the only way I can do this is go into the form properties and select "remove existing code". Then I can create a new project and add code.
Is it the case that if I cannot find the original VS project, that this is my only choice...to remove any existing code?
Yes, if you can't find the original project, then you're out of luck - you have to remove the code and rewrite as necessary.
http://www.bizsupportonline.net/blog/2013/recover-make-changes-infopath-forms-sharepoint.htm
(Paragraph at the bottom of the article, just before "3 ways you can find out whether code was written for a form template")
In Visual Studio 2012, it appears that only maybe a third of the 20 or so C# project types support using Shift+Alt+D to open the "Data Sources" window (and none that I've found ever display the mythical "Data" menu bar option).
Is there any sort of guide as to which project types will allow you to work with data sources?
Also, is there any way to "adjust" the features of a project after it's been created?
Update: See my answer below for how to add the Data Sources function to an existing project.
I believe you are looking for this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yft2c9ad.aspx
To quote msdn: "You can add a data source to a project only if it supports creating and working with data sources. For example, you can't open the Data Sources window in a project for a Windows Store app."
Basically, if using a database seems logical in your application, you can probably use one.
To answer your question about the "mythical 'Data' menu bar option", here's how you access it:
You just have to select "View", then "Other Windows", and finally "Data Sources"
And to answer your final question about, "Also, is there any way to 'adjust' the features of a project after it's been created?"
Yes, yes there is. If you mean as a compiled executable, one could simply decompile the project or use an ILcode editor. If you mean as a solution in visual studios, using the solution explorer you can access "My Project" and simply double click that to get a nice little gui for adjusting your project.
EDIT:
For an overload of information about data in visual studios, you can visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wzabh8c4.aspx
For more information about just the data source window, you can visit:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6ckyxa83.aspx
Aha! There is a way to add data access to a project that lacks it, per: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb907587.aspx. To quote:
To create a class from a database table
If you are working with a Web site project, and the project does not already have an App_Code folder, in Solution Explorer, right-click the project, click Add ASP.NET Folder, and then click App_Code.
In Solution Explorer, right-click the App_Code folder (for a Web site project) or the project (for a Web application project) and then click Add New Item.
Under Installed templates, select Linq to SQL Classes template, type a name for the .dbml file, and then click Add.
-- The Object Relational Designer window is displayed. [Note that this is the window that Shift-Alt-D displays]
In Server Explorer, drag the database tables or other objects (such as views) that you want to use with LINQ to SQL into the Object Relational Designer window.
-- The tables and their columns are represented as a entities in the designer window.
Save the .dbml file.
This creates .designer.cs or .designer.vb file that is located under the .dbml file. The file contains a class that represents the database and a class that represents the table. The parameterless constructor for the database class reads the connection string from the Web.config file.
(Note that, after performing this procedure you may get a message "The type or namespace name 'Linq' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Data'". The solution to this problem is found here.)
I have an Excel Automation Add-in that is registered with COM by my installer. By registering with COM, my add-in appears in the (for Excel 2007) Excel Options > Add-Ins > Manage Excel Add-Ins Go... > Automation list. The users must still navigate to the dialog above and select my add-in to enable it.
Is it possible (via a registry key perhaps) to enable my automaton add-in programmatically in my installer class (or in VBA) after the types are registered with COM?
Thanks in advance - Frank
Ive not done ths specifically, but a reference that I use has this to say regarding your question:
Automation Add-Ins are loaded in the same way as normal .xla Add-Ins , but using the ProgID instead of the file name, as in the following code:
Sub installAutomationAddIn()
AddIns.Add Filename:="Excel2007ProgRef.Simple"
AddIns("Excel2007ProgRef.Simple").Installed = True
End Sub
If you are creating an installation routinefor your Add-In, you may want to write directly to the registry in order to set the Automation Add-In as installed. To do so, you need to create the following registry entry (Which will already exist if you've used the above code).
(In the Registry Key:)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOftware\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options
(Create the string value:)
Name = the first unused item in the series: Open, Open1, Open2, etc.
Value = /A "Excel2007ProgRef.Simple"
We have an existing add-in that we publish to users via click once. We would now like to use this as a vehicle to publish some of our existing C# methods directly into Excel so that the users can call them as a UDF.
For example - I have an assembly called MyAssembly, that has a class called MyClass with a public method called MyMethod. I also have an excel addin which adds some item to the ribbon for some custom functionality. I would now like to publish MyAssembly with my existing addin so that a person who has the addin installed can enter =MyMethod into a cell and have my custom method run.
How would one go about doing this?
I solved this quite comprehensively by using ExcelDna, an open source XLL implementation which is very simple to use, and pretty much avoids the whole COM debacle all together. So far it has matched our requirements perfectly...
http://groups.google.com/group/exceldna
you have not been very verbose about what you want to do. What do you mean with "users can call them"?
If you mean that add-in methods should be exposed to VBA you can find two articles on that here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2008/08/13/comaddins-race-condition.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2008/08/11/why-your-comaddin-object-should-derive-from-standardolemarshalobject.aspx