BusinessWorks™
Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Release Notes
Contents
TIBCO Documentation and Support Services. . . . 3
New Features. . . .4
Changes in Platform Support . . . . 5
Changes in Functionality. . . .6
Deprecated and Removed Features. . . . 7
Migration and Compatibility. . . . 8
Closed Issues. . . . 9
Known Issues. . . .10
Legal and Third-Party Notices. . . .12
TIBCO Documentation and Support Services
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The following documents for this product can be found on the TIBCO Documentation site:
● TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Release Notes ● TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Installation ● TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM User's Guide How to Contact TIBCO Support
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New Features
The following new feature has been added in this release of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in
for Microsoft Dynamics CRM:
Support for Actions and Functions having CRMBaseEntity Parameters
The new CRMBaseEntity Params field is added to select the collection or noncollection type of crmbase entities in Functions REST and Actions REST activities. This field is displayed only if you select the function/action that has crmbaseentity params/return type in the Functions Selection Dialog or Actions Selection Dialog. For more information, see 'Functions REST' and 'Actions REST' sections in TIBCO
ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM User's Guide.
Changes in Platform Support
The following change has been made in platform support in this release of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™
Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM:
Platform Status
As of
Release Notes
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.x 64-bit on x86-64
Added 6.9.1
Changes in Functionality
The following functionality change has been made in this release of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in
for Microsoft Dynamics CRM:
To mitigate the DynamicsCRMREST plug-in request failures when encountered with 5xx errors while connecting to Azure AD and DynamicsCRM Online servers, accessToken cache interval and retry mechanism is introduced with the help of new system properties.
Deprecated and Removed Features
The following features have been deprecated as of this release of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for
Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
For deprecated features, where relevant, alternatives are listed. Any use of a deprecated feature must be discontinued because it might be removed in a future release. To avoid dependence on deprecated features, ensure that you become familiar with the suggested alternative features.
Deprecated Features Affected Component Description Deprecated Release Dynamics CRM (SOAP) Connection Shared Resource
Support for Dynamics CRM 2013 and Dynamics CRM 2015 on-premises servers and the listener solution on these servers is deprecated.
6.7.0 Dynamics CRM
(SOAP) palette The SOAP palette is deprecated from this release. No newenhancements is implemented for the SOAP palette. All new enhancements and features is considered on the REST palette.
Migration and Compatibility
The following information provides migration procedures or compatibility issues for this release of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
To migrate projects created in the previous 6.9.0 version to version 6.9.1 of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™
Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you can do one of the following actions:
● Directly import the projects to version 6.9.1 of the plug-in. ● Open the projects directly with version 6.9.1 of the plug-in.
If you want to upgrade ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM from version
6.9.0 or previous versions to version 6.9.1 by using the Eclipse provisioning platform, you must uninstall the previous version of the plug-in before installing the new version.
Closed Issues
The following issues have been closed in this release of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Microsoft
Dynamics CRM.
Key Summary
DCRM-1696 An error occurred when connecting to Microsoft Dynamic CRM Online instance after resolving an issue with Azure AD.
DCRM-1671 TIBCO ActiveMatrix Businessworks plug-in for Dynamics CRM now supports SUSE Linux.
DCRM-1585 If a project containing Functions REST activity was imported, errors were seen in the input schema of the activity when the user either added another Functions REST activity or updated an existing Functions REST activity. Similar errors were seen when Functions REST activity was copied.
DCRM-1549 Actions REST activity generated an error during run time when the input schema had a collection of entity type.
Known Issues
The following issues exist in this release of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Microsoft Dynamics
CRM.
Key Summary
DCRM-1614 Summary: Function REST Activity do not support functions having input parameters
of collection type.
Workaround: None
DCRM-1590 Summary: When configuring the Actions REST activity, custom actions are not
reflected in the Action Selection Dialog after the Refresh List button is clicked even though the CSDL metadata file is updated.
Workaround: After the Refresh List button is clicked and the refresh operation is
completed, the new action can be found by typing the action name in the search bar of the Action Selection Dialog.
DCRM-1565 Summary: Concurrent triggers to the Query REST Entities activity fail when dynamic
values are passed in the filter condition.
Workaround: None.
DCRM-1530 Summary: The Actions REST activity generates an error during run time when the
input schema has an enumeration type and an enumeration key that is an integer is entered.
Workaround: Enter the enumeration value instead of the enumeration key when the
key is an integer.
DCRM-1369 Summary: Query REST entities activity generates an exception when configured in
Fetch XML mode with more than 130 attributes in either base entity or linked entity.
Workaround: None.
DCRM-1350 Summary: Runtime errors related to concurrency, seen with all DCRM REST activities
whenever significant number of requests hit the Dynamics 365 online Web API in parallel. For example, "java.lang.RuntimeException:Number of concurrent requests exceeded the limit of 52.".
Workaround: Throttle the number of job instances created by process starters by using
bw.application.job.flowlimit property, so that the number of concurrent requests hitting the Dynamics 365 online Web API at any given moment is controlled. For more information about bw.application.job.flowlimit property refer to TIBCO ActiveMatrix
BusinessWorksTM Performance Benchmarking and Tuning guide.
DCRM-1263 Summary: The values of address attribute fields for certain entity types are not sent to
Dynamics CRM listener endpoints for Delete event by using the Dynamics CRM listener solution.
Workaround: None.
Key Summary
DCRM-1214 Summary: The Query REST Entities activity faults at run time when groupby is used
on datetime type attribute in a FetchXML query for Microsoft Dynamics 365 online server.
Workaround: None.
DCRM-1198 Summary: The Query REST Entities activity faults at runtime when the aggregate
count is used on currency type field in a FetchXML query.
Workaround: None.
DCRM-1015 Summary: When a connection is changed to point from Microsoft Dynamics 365
online server V 8.2 to V 9.0, input and output validation errors might occur.
Workaround: After changing the connection, for all the activities in which errors occur,
click Build Schema and click OK.
DCRM-934 Summary: You cannot use a Dynamics CRM Connection resource with Proxy enabled
when Proxy username/password are provided.
Workaround: None.
DCRM-924 Summary: You can download Option set metadata from Dynamics CRM REST
Connection resources in a Shared Module without adding them as dependencies on the BusinessWorks Application Module.
Workaround: None.
DCRM-923 Summary: If you select any entities in the Entity Selection Dialog on the Query tab of
Query REST Entities activity, the selection is not retained.
Workaround: Select the same entities in the Entity Selection Dialog again to retain
them.
DCRM-734 Summary: When you create a Dynamics CRM REST connection resource and
configure it with Kerberos authentication on Mac OS, the test connection fails.
Workaround: Register the SPN of your Dynamics CRM service in KDC with IP
Address instead of a name. An SPN can be registered in the format
<nnn>-<nnn>.<domainSuffix>@<AD-DomainMachineName.LOCAL> where <nnn>-<nnn>-<nnn>-<nnn> is the IP Address of your DCRM service. For
example:[email protected]. DCRM-707 Summary: You can create an entity using Update REST Entity activity, only if
mandatory attributes for creation of that entity are available in Input schema for update.
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