http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/ Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blog from Customer Effective, CRM Experts and a Microsoft Inner Circle partner. en-US Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:39:00 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/2009/09/workflow-from-jscript.html http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/2009/09/workflow-from-jscript.html An on demand Workflow called from jScript can open many new possibilities. For example, say you have documentation records related to a project record (2 custom entities) and there is a need to update a set of the documentation records... <p>An on demand Workflow called from jScript can open many new possibilities.</p> <p>For example, say you have documentation records related to a project record (2 custom entities) and there is a need to update a set&#0160;of the documentation records&#0160;when one of them is rejected or approved. With a&#0160;bit of&#0160;FetchXML to build the&#0160;collection of documentation records,&#0160;use a jScript for loop to call&#0160;the workflow&#0160;and update each of the records.</p> <p>If the async service is down, the workflow will be queued and will execute when async is started again.</p> David Frattalone Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:26:22 -0400 http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/2009/09/workflow-gotcha.html http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/2009/09/workflow-gotcha.html On an entity with a related workflow that creates records, if you delete a bit attribute and then recreate an attribute with the same name but as a picklist, the workflow will produce errors. To get around the issue, change... <p>On&#0160;an entity&#0160;with a related workflow that creates&#0160;records,&#0160;if you delete a bit&#0160;attribute and then recreate an attribute with the same name&#0160;but as&#0160;a picklist, the workflow will produce errors. To get around the issue, change the name of the&#0160;new&#0160;attribute, or delete and recreate the steps that create the new records.</p> David Frattalone Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:02:26 -0400