Displaying FetchXML results with XSLT on the client side in a Dynamics CRM 2011 web resource

A few weeks back, I wrote a post that showed how to retrieve and display FetchXML using jQuery in a Dynamics CRM web resource. In that example, I used jQuery's each() method to iterate through each result and append them to an HTML element on the page. Using each() is »

Better line charts in Dynamics CRM 2011 - part II

In part I of this series, I showed how to query Microsoft Dynamics CRM for aggregate data using FetchXML and then pass the results to Flot to generate a line chart. In this second part, I will expand on that to show how to query for and chart multi-series data. »

Better line charts in Dynamics CRM 2011 - part I

Earlier this week I posted an entry about using FetchXML and JQuery in a Dynamics CRM 2011 web resource. The reason I first started looking at those two together was that I wanted to see if I could generate better looking line charts than are available out of the box »

FetchXML + jQuery in a Dynamics CRM 2011 web resource

Over the weekend I started looking at a hobby project that involved querying and working with aggregate data from Dynamics CRM 2011 inside a hosted web resource using jQuery. Initially had I planned to use the OData/REST endpoint since that is much sexier than SOAP lately, but after a »

Dynamically setting field requiredlevel attributes in Dynamics CRM 2011

One of the things I like best about the Dynamics CRM 2011 form object model is that it exposes the requiredlevel attribute for form fields, so you can dynamically set fields as required or not in response to user actions. This is great if you have different types of a »