Extracting SSRS Report Definition Files from a Report Server

Had the need today to backup some report definitions from a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 Server prior to terminating it.  I've linked and put it in pastebin as well.

CRM 2011: Mass Update Opportunity Estimated Closed Date

Today, I fielded a request from a collegue who was attempting to update large number of opportunities with the Bulk Edit feature.  They were attempting to update the "Estimated Close Date" field.

I noticed what they had as well -- in the bulk edit form the field was disabled.  I presume this is because behind the facade, this is a calculated field.

There's a quick and easy way to overcome this problem if you run into it.  A simple dialog (or workflow) can still manipulate this field.  The former can even be constucted so it prompts for a value.

I've included a screenshot tour of the dialog I constructed below:

CRM 2011: Whole Number fields -- dropping the comma

I fielded a request today that involved a CRM field that was configured as a whole number that's intended to store the year component of a date.  In the installation of CRM that I was working in -- numerics are formatted with commas.

The problem that the requestor wanted resolved was that 1995 was appearing in the UI as 1,995 -- they wanted to drop the comma.

I ran across a simple javascript one-liner here that solved the problem.

document.getElementById("fieldname").value = Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("fieldname").getValue();

The author was quick to point out that the resolution would likely be consider unsupported.  While this is true, I approach these as a measured risk.  It worked for me.