New features introduced in CRM 2013

1.    New Parameters introduced in Query String parameters:

When you open CRM 2013 form or view in the application by setting in a URL, there are new query string parameter has been introduced that controls how the navigation pane or command bar are displayed. Below two new parameter introduced in CRM 2013 SP1 Release.

1.       Navbar: This parameter controls whether the navigation bar is displayed and whether the application navigation is available via sitemap.

This parameter have three value.

1.       On: The navigation bar is displayed and this is the default behavior when the parameter is not used.

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2.       Off: The navigation bar will not displayed as you can see the screenshot below.

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3.       Entity: Only the navigation items of related entity will be visible (as you can see in screenshot) whereas you cannot see the option to navigate the main Tiles.

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2.       cmdbar: Controls whether the command bar is displayed.

True: The command bar will be displayed. This is default.

False: The command bar will be hidden as you can see in screenshot.

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If both command bar and navigation bar is set to false then the page will look like this.

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2.       Processes with And/or Group in condition

Earlier the workflow were not flexible to add the grouping condition like OR. We often struggling to put such OR grouping condition in processes. This is much needed feature as we are already using this in Advance Find. But now grouping condition like AND/OR is possible in workflows. This changes is applied in workflows, dialog and SLA Items.

In Previous version we were using multiple condition branches as a work around.

Now with this you can simply add multiple conditions, select the row and group them in OR/AND condition as per the requirements (same as we are using in Advance Find Queries.).

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Once you are done with your condition you can hit save and close and your condition will look like this.

         

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