Very useful set of String manipulations, Date manipulations, Calculations, RegEx and Web functions which are not coming as CRM2011 OOB features are included in the manipulation Libray. In another words it is a set of custom workflow activities which can be used with crm workflows and dialogs as well.
Installation Manipulation Library comes as a CRM solution and as a solution of Visual Studio. There are two ways of installing it and use in CRM. CRM Solution import CRM solution can be imported to the CRM and after publishing it, the features will be available to use in processes. Thats the easiest way of installing it and if some one needs an unmanaged solution, they can export it as an unmanaged solution and simply use it in any CRM environment. |
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Date Utilities
Most important set of custom functions in the library according to me. 🙂 CRM workflows allows users to add, subtract normal calendar days and durations but not Business Days. Normally Mondays to Friday are the business days but there can be business closures in the weekdays as well. And also there are business closing hours where the developers need to consider about. Create the custom workflow step. |
Calculation utilities String Utilities Another useful category under the manipulation library. Capitalize, Codify (SoundEx), Codify (Metaphone), Length, Pad String, Replace, Substring and Trim functions are coming under string utilities. E.g. Need to get the first digit of the customer type and decide the next set of operations to be continued. In this case the user doesn’t need to get the first digit of the type seperately. Create the custom step |
Thanks to Calton Cotler, I got lot of advantages and get my development time saved because of this. Just try it http://manipulationlibrary.codeplex.com/releases/view/52128 |
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