Comments on: Developing a SharePoint custom field type for displaying CRM 4.0 data

By: Pierre Joubert

Pierre Joubert — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:56:10 +0000

Many thanks for this, it will help alot.

I have one issue though. I am getting the following errors when trying to create the column and have no idea whats causing it:

--- this appears when first selecting the column type:

This field type cannot be edited from most client programs and might block the programs from saving documents to this library.

--- this occurs when attempting to create the column:

Field type CRMAccount is not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete this field.

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I understand this is complaining about the Field TypeName. But other than that, im clueless...

thanks
Pierre

By: Vaishnavi

Vaishnavi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:59:22 +0000

Hi Karine,

Very nice post. It was very helpful in my project.
I am trying to Create column in SharePoint with "Choice" information type and the "Fill-In" choices allowed. I want to be able to add the fill-in choice entered by user to the current choices list.

Could you please provide your insight on this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You,
Vaishnavi

By: Patrik

Patrik — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:37:03 +0000

Awesome post: thanks for it! I was able to achieve an integration MOSS-Dynamics AX with the input from this post: thanks (see http://patrikluca.blogspot.com/2009/07/integrat...).

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:10:34 +0000

I don't see where you actually created a feature and was able to deploy a custom field type as a feature. I have tried but since you put the fldtypes_crm_account.xml in the 12 hive it will show up in the availble columns regardless of features.

I would love to know how to have the custom field type as a feature. This would allow turning off/on the custom field type. I don't see how though.

By: sacchit

sacchit — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:22:22 +0000

My custom field values is getting saved properly through the default list form for new and edit item but
my custom field is not getting its value stored when a custom new/edit item list form(daaformwebpart) is used. Any help will be appreactiated.
Thanks

By: Rahul Khedekar

Rahul Khedekar — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:21:06 +0000

Hi Karine,

Really nice article. I want to add a custom data type to the UserProfile Properties so that my custom data is stored in UserProfile Property. Any idea can we add new type to PropertyDataType (from “Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles” NamaSpace) or extend this class to support this kind of behaviour?

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:12:19 +0000

Interesting, what will happen, if somebody rename account in CRM? What will happen with account data in your list?

By: chandra

chandra — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:59:45 +0000

I have gone through ur article.I have implemented some related functionality in my site.I have created one custom dynamic column. and diployed to document library.then i have uploaded the documents to this library.

after that i am reading this library values from sharepoint object model..It' throughing error when reading the value of this custom feilds columns.

Could you please help me,,,

By: don

don — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:06:17 +0000

Hi Boske,
I went through the article and tried to download the zipped version of the source code. When I unzip the download, The zip file tells me that there is no code to download. Can you please email me the source code / reload it again on the site.

Your article is wonderful and I would love to have the source code to understand it completely.. Please email it to moneymaveric@gmail.com

Thanks so much.

Cheers

By: Udai@SharePoint

Udai@SharePoint — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:30:57 +0000

Great Article Boske,Really I love you woman you saved plenty of my time. Keep doing the best.One of the excellent article I ever saw.

By: Ariab67

Ariab67 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:39:49 +0000

Best Custom Field Sample in Net!

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:26:13 +0000

How about licensing? I assume that anyone accessing this field (since it is CRM data) needs a CRM license?

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:26:13 +0000

How about licensing? I assume that anyone accessing this field (since it is CRM data) needs a CRM license?

By: Karine Bosch

Karine Bosch — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:42:04 +0000

Dan,

You are right: BDC is only available from MOSS. If you only have a WSS installation you can always try to use the CRM web services.

Karine

By: Dan Usher

Dan Usher — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:55:42 +0000

Curious, but from reading this I’m going to guess that this won’t work for those that are less fortunate and using the Standard edition of MOSS since it would seem that the BDC is required?

Or would there just be a larger amount of custom code required to create the interface to talk to CRM more elegantly?

By: Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine)

Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:03:51 +0000

Thanks Karine. Source Code is very useful.