Preface

This cookbook presents practical and quick solutions that will teach the reader how to customize Dynamics CRM 2011 with minimal effort. The client-side customizations presented in this book work in conjunction with the system customizations to cover a large scale of customizations available for your environment.

The book moves on to more advanced topics as you progress through the various recipes. While the beginning focuses on the basics of working with client side scripting, the later chapters present various solutions you can implement in your environment to help the user see the collected data in new ways.

Taking advantage of various additional client-side libraries, the customizations presented show new ways to extend your Dynamics CRM environment and achieve new levels of customization otherwise not available.

While some of these customizations do have a counterpart in using plugins, the approach presented here is targeted at system customizers and developers that look to achieve the expected results with the minimal effort and in the shortest period of time. In addition, these customizations will add minimal load to the server side, if any.