A variety of developer tools for Dynamics 365, CRM 2011-2016Now supporting Dynamics 365!
Dynamics CRM DevTools is an extension to Google Chrome which provides a variety of tools to help optimize customizing and troubleshooting within Dynamics CRM. Currently all deployments of CRM 2015, CRM 2015 Update 1, CRM 2013 and CRM 2011 UR 12+ are supported. A full list of features are listed below.
Form Information
- Displays the current form’s back-end information
- Entity Name
- Entity Id
- Entity Type Code
- Form Type
- Dirty Fields
- Ability to show the current form’s attributes’ schema names
- Ability to refresh the current form
- Ability to enable disabled attributes on the current form (System Administrators only)
- Ability to show hidden attributes on the current form (System Administrators only)
- Ability to copy the current record URL
- Ability to open the Performance Center to help troubleshoot performance issues with the form
- Bring back the record properties dialog that existed in CRM 2011
Current User Information
- Domain Name
- User Id
- Business Unit Id
- User Roles
Find
- Ability to open advanced find
- Set focus to a field on the current form
- Display a specific User and navigate to the record (by Id)
- Display a specific Privilege (by Id)
- Display an Entity Type Code from an Entity Name
- Ability to display and navigate to the current user record
- Ability to navigate to any record by providing the entity name and id
Test
- Ability to update attributes from the current form (System Administrators only)
- This is helpful when you need to update values for testing but the fields don’t exist on the form
Fetch
- Execute any Fetch XML statement and view the results
- Fetch XML highlighting, auto-completion of nodes and intellisense
Plugins
- Displays all registered plugin assemblies and their details
- Entity
- Filtering Attributes
- Stage
- Displays number of successes, crashes and failures for any sandbox plugin (sandbox only)
Debug
- New tab replaces the DB & Server tab
- Ability to open the diagnostics page to test latency and bandwidth
- Ability to open the Default Solution
- Ability to open the Debug Information page which displays version information for all the parts of the CRM environment
- Ability to open the CRM For Tablets app which can be used for debugging in the browser
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