Some Brand New Features – and more! 1.2022.4

Brand New Features

• Possibility to Copy and Open the URLs for Records and References #683
  Thanks from RhINO-CRM!
  If you right-click in the Result View, you can either open or copy the full link to either the record or the column, if that is a lookup.

• Option to use XrmToolBox MetadataCache #696, see also XrmToolBox/Connections #135
  Awesome assist from @MarkMpn!
  Using the metadata from the XrmToolBox core, the tool will work a lot faster 🏃‍♀️💨 When you start up the tool, it might take a bit longer though.
  This feature is possible to disable in the Settings of the tool.
  Please let me get feedback about this feature!

• Using a new feature in XrmToolBox – open records in select browser and profile.
  This feature is awesome – if you are working with many environments, or if you have one browser to just browse, and another browser to work in it – and many more use cases!

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A bunch of Improvements

• Add options to always show attributes Primary ID/Name or all standard Address columns #668
  See also discussions #667 started by @ergobill about missing address fields.
• The tool now stops trying to use the condition operator like in queries when possible – just use what you want to! #676
  Thanks to @JimDaly and @MarkMpn for the discussion!
• Also fixing #693 when #683 changed a bit, to always need to double-click the link.
• Warning about Order – Alias missing #681
  It is easy to miss Alias for Aggregate queries.
• By default, hide all-attributes – you shouldn’t really use it… #685
  But you can show it, of course. If you really must…
• A bit layout changed for Settings Results (a select instead of many checkboxes)
• No history in the current environment – will now show the “New”, not just empty.

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Bug fixes

• Attributes warnings a bit too harsh, now saying it may not be shown #669
• Validation IsValidForGrid missing is now only “info”, not “warning”
• Comparing with empty must be possible, value was not added if empty, it should be added as value="" #692

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Internal

• Moving a lot of code from FetchXMLBuilder.cs to new partial class in FXBGui, FXBInterfaces, FXBMetadata and FXBQueries – a bit easier to find the code…
  See commit 1 and commit 2.

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Hear me out!

…do not check this – if you have to, you’re doing something wrong… 😉

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Contributions

The main developer is still Jonas Rapp since 2014. See Jonas on GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn.