Author Archives: greysagecrm

Standard blocks with predefined width in CRM and SelfService

A pretty straightforward problem and solution scenario here today. I was designing a list block for self-service site where cases for the person are loaded in a tab. Check the screenshot below. However when I used to navigate through the navigation buttons the layout was getting disturbed as list was contracting and expanding as per… Read More: Standard blocks with predefined width in CRM and SelfService »

Self Service List Design

Nowadays CRM Self Service has become more popular as it runs on web and provides basic CRM access to end users which ensures better connectivity to improve relations. Though self-service design has improved over the period of last couple of years, we keep on getting out of the box feature requests from customers every day… Read More: Self Service List Design »

Changing the order of view fields in Search Select Advanced field

We come across this scenario very often where we have to change columns order in Search Select Advance view fields. Consider the below scenario. On New Opportunity page there is Search Select Advanced field named “Campaign\Wave Activity:”  It has two columns in its search criteria as “Campaign Name”, “Wave Activity Name” respectively. These two fields… Read More: Changing the order of view fields in Search Select Advanced… »

Active directory sync for Person entity

We have designed data import routines for several standard as well as non standard Sage CRM entities. You can find information on the same by going through below link. https://www.greytrix.com/blogs/sagecrm/2010/04/08/data-import-routines/ We have designed another interesting import module recently. The module is used to import the users from Active directory in Person and related tables of… Read More: Active directory sync for Person entity »

Error exporting reports to excel in CRM part 2

In the current versions of Sage CRM we come across this error very often. There are several reasons why this error may occur. I had discussed couple of issues in my earlier blog posts on this particular website (Links below). Error exporting reports to excel https://www.greytrix.com/blogs/sagecrm/2010/04/22/error-exporting-reports-to-excel-in-crm/ Desktop Size Limitation https://www.greytrix.com/blogs/sagecrm/2011/12/06/desktop-size-limitation/ Sometimes even if we follow… Read More: Error exporting reports to excel in CRM part 2 »

Backward compatibility for .NET API DLLs from an old version of Sage CRM

Sage CRM has made the functional development through DOT NET(.NET) much easier by providing enhanced .Net API development kit with recent versions. Over time, the API has been improved a lot, but what about the backward compatibility? Some people might have started using it from Sage CRM version 6.1 only. Can they reuse their DLL’s… Read More: Backward compatibility for .NET API DLLs from an old version… »