Expose hidden fields in Sage CRM entities

Sage CRM has a very good reporting structure inbuilt. You can create views; make them usable as Report view by checking the corresponding checkbox. Further you can attach this view to report and build search criterion/contents based on the same. Sometimes even though field is visible in your view you cannot find it to add… Read More »

Adding Extra information in Top Content

In Sage CRM users can create new entities and use them to serve various business processes. You must be aware that one can add the entity easily in the Sage CRM using the Advanced Customization wizard. Recently I developed the one for one of my clients. All went fine until my client requested to add… Read More »

Change Entry Type of Field in Sage CRM

Sage CRM standard functionality allows us to add multiple types (Text, Selection List, Multi Select, Search Select Advanced etc) of entries in an entity and showing them for at the entity level for informative purpose. What if you have created a field with wrong data type? Has anyone thought how one can change the data… Read More »

Letter Generator

In our day to day business touch base e-mails is an essential activity. Also in the banking and wealth management sectors sending welcome emails as well as the account statements is the regular process. Although there is an efficient way of doing this through emails, still many business sectors follow the industry wide standard of… Read More »

Setting AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed Value in IIS

You all might be aware of the problem that occurs while Importing Bulk Data into CRM. What actually happens is that CRM tries to upload the file though the routine but a small value in AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed in the IIS settings or rather the Metabase.XML file cause the import routine to fail mid way and throws… Read More »

Dropdown Sync in Sage CRM System

Everyone must be aware that standard Sage CRM system allows us to integrate with the Sage Accpac system. We have developed many routines for showing data from Sage Accpac in Sage CRM. I would like to explain one of the functionality of Sync Dropdowns using a new field lookup in Accpac.Let’s say assume you want… Read More »

Sage CRM .Net Tips and Tricks

In my earlier post I had explained checkpoints that needs to be checked before using .Net API. http://sagecrmaddons.blogspot.com/2011/04/sage-crm-net-api-check-points.html Today I will be explaining the some of the development tricks that I have observed while writing Sage CRM code in .Net API. 1. Tab focus: After clicking on Continue button and navigating to Summary tab, the… Read More »

Setting Default Values in CRM

In Sage CRM we are very much aware of the “Field, Screen, List, Tab, View” etc functionality using whim we are able to do lot of modification Display required field in Screen or List, Allow sorting in List column, Provide hyperlink on List column. The most innocuous but very important of all the requests that… Read More »