CRM 2011 Tools Set that everyone should have

by Bill Owens 1. July 2011 17:36

Some people deserve accolades and Tanguy is one of those people. He has had many freely public tools that have helped implementers and CRM super users customize their systems. He has updated his tools for CRM 2011 and they now work for both Online and Onpremise. These are must have tools.

First about Tangy


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Technical consultant on Microsoft Dynamics CRM since version 1.2.
He works for ALSY (Orange Business Service subsidiary), one of the French leader in Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration.

His blog can be found here 

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His tools

SiteMap Editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Features

  • Connections to OnPremise, Online and Claim based deployments
  • TreeView display of SiteMap
  • Add SiteMap component with mouse usage
  • Add default SiteMap component if you removed one
  • Cut/Copy/Paste of SiteMap component
  • Display Xml of SiteMap component
  • Add SiteMap component from Xml
  • Reset SiteMap to default system one
  • Import back the SiteMap to CRM server

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SiteMapEditor

Download

As usual the application is available on codeplex

JavaScript Web Resource Manager for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

this new tool allows you to update JavaScript web resources with the following features:

  • Export scripts web resources from CRM server
  • Save scripts web resources to disk
  • Load scripts files from disk
  • Edit scripts with default text editor or Visual Studio
  • Edit web resource properties
  • Save scripts to CRM server
  • Publish scripts to CRM server

Screenshot

jswebresourcemanager

Download

it is published on codeplex

Ribbon Browser

You will be able to:

  • Display system entity ribbon definition
  • Display custom entity ribbon definition
  • Display Ribbon control attributes
  • Display Ribbon control XML
  • Save ribbon in XML file

The tool is released on codeplex

Screenshot

Ribbon Browser

 

CrmDiagTool 2011

The features are the following:

  • Enable/Disable tracing
  • Zip content of Trace directory
  • Open Trace directory
  • Generate diagnostic file in text or html format with components selection
  • Enable/Disable DevErrors

Some screenshots:

crmdiagtool2011_1

crmdiagtool2011_2

crmdiagtool2011_3

crmdiagtool2011_4

Regarding source code: As the previous version had not its source code released, this version does not too.

Download link

Searchable Property Updater for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Searchable Property Updater1

I posted the tool, the source code and the documentation on codeplex. Use the link below to access to these files:

http://searchpropupdater.codeplex.com

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About the author

I work for a consulting firm in Dublin Ohio called Affiliated Resource Group. For the last five years I have been spearheading our Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice. I have a deep appreciation for the Microsoft CRM platform and I am very excited about it. You might even describe me as a Microsoft CRM Advocate. I have many battle scars from my experience with the product and I’m constantly being asked questions about CRM and how-to-do something in it. Hence, this BLOG is to help disseminate that knowledge and information to everyone. As of last year I was posting links to many other blogs to help spread the knowledge, but now with the community.dynamics.com doing that for me, I will be following that practice unless a really juicy article catches my eye. Many people have asked where my post are for the first half of 2010, my company had me posting to another blog and maintain two was near impossible. I am now down to just this blog. So good luck and I hope that this blog may help in some way. If you have suggestions or questions, please email me them.

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