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  • Blog Post: The Programmatic Refresh of Meta Data using COM ASP API

    This article will discuss 1) 2 methods to programmatically control the refresh of meta data. 2) The display of the old style workflow configuration screen that governs the marketing workflow Background The existing workflow rules for the marketing tables (Campaigns, Waves and WaveItems) are actually...
  • Blog Post: Manage Escalations

    A new example component has been added to the resources section for development partners to download. The purpose of this component is to make the management of escalation rules easier in implementation of Sage CRM where there are a large number of rules to manage. When working with large number of Escalation...
  • Blog Post: Building a Screen not bound to Meta Data using the ASP COM API

    The code below demonstrates how a page like the Preferences screen can be rebuilt in Sage CRM. This particular screen may be needed to be replaced if the business wishes to offer users only a limited set of preferences that maybe controlled. In the default system the system administrator can either let...
  • Blog Post: Building selection lists in ASP pages without reference to Meta Data

    From time to time you will need to build pages that can not directly be based on a Meta data definition of a screen. For example if you need to construct a page that allows cloning of an entity or perhaps interaction with an external system. The CRM objects allow to you to easily build screens and entries...
  • Blog Post: The Sage CRM .NET API

    The diagram below shows the general architecture of Sage CRM. Here you can see very clearly that the .NET API is an alternative and NOT a replacement for the COM API which is currently used to build application extensions with ASP pages. Both the .NET API and the COM ASP API use the Meta...
  • Blog Post: Using Joins in Web Services

    Imagine you need to retrieve information from CRM via the webservices interface; this query should combine data from multiple tables. In the COM API (ASP pages, self service, table level scripts etc) you could use the QueryObject to build the exact SQL you need. var mySQL = "SELECT Person.*,...
  • Blog Post: Building Lists without reference to Meta Data in the ASP COM API

    Above is a picture of a new list added into the My CRM area of Sage CRM. The code below shows how a list can be created using the ASP COM API. var intRecordId = CRM.GetContextInfo("user","user_userid"); var Arg = "oppo_assigneduserid="+intRecordId; var myBlock = CRM.GetBlock...