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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers you access to exciting new interactive and flexible Dashboards that contain any combination of Charts, Lists, iFrames and Silverlight components. These can be used to easily visualize your CRM data and provide you with a light BI interface, all of which this practical cookbook will enable you to utilize. At first glance, Dashboards and their myriad information can be overwhelming to users that are new to the Dynamics CRM 2011 interface. This book guides you through navigating and interacting with Dashboards in a simple and easy to follow manner, and builds on that experience to walk you through creating and sharing your own User Dashboards. "Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook"ù offers a range of practical recipes for mastering dashboard navigation, interaction, and building custom Dashboards in Dynamics CRM. You will immediately get to grips with essential tasks like changing Dashboard settings and sharing Dashboards with other members in the CRM team, as well as adding custom components like iFrames and Lists. Along the way you will also follow the creation of a simple HTML WebResouce that can be added to your Dashboard. By the end of "Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook"ù, you will be fully equipped to take advantage of the exciting new Dashboards features of Dynamics CRM 2011.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exporting a dashboard from Dynamics CRM


In order to work with a dashboard's Form XML using Microsoft Visual Studio, first you have to export the existing Dashboard using a Solution Package in Dynamics CRM. This recipe will cover exporting the Dashboard and then accessing the Form XML. An in-depth review of importing and exporting Solution Packages is outside the scope of this book, but this section covers the necessary steps to complete the recipe.

Getting ready

This recipe will be exporting the standard Dynamics CRM Overview dashboard that comes pre-installed with Dynamics CRM 2011. Navigate to the Solutions section in the Dynamics CRM 2011 Settings area.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:

  1. Once you have navigated to the Solutions section in the Settings area, click on the New button to create a blank solution for this recipe, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. A screen will open for the new solution, as shown in the following screenshot. Fill in...