CRM 2015 New Features for CRM Developers

Improved Search Capabilities Improvements to quick search and make it faster and easier to find customer records on across the entities or different record types. Simply enter your search criteria in the general navigation search bar and let CRM do the searching for you.

The search results page will have an improved user interface. The search results will display based on the entity where the record is located, up to 8 multiple entities that were determined in the settings. If users want to only search one entity users can filter the search using the filter with drop-down

The enhanced search capabilities offer users a quick way to find and navigate to records by letting them enter keywords in the search box on the navigation bar. The search box supports using an asterisk (*) as a wild-card character

Hierarchy Visualization It provides business insights by visualizing hierarchically related data. This feature is designed to give you a hierarchical view into the data, enable you to navigate between records, select, open and edit records from the visualizations. You’ll be able to enable visuals for specific system entities and custom entities, after you have updated the hierarchy settings for the entity. The users can choose to view hierarchical data as charts, tiles or tree views. The hierarchy visuals defined in the Web application are also available in CRM for tablets, but modified to fit the smaller form factor. Because these visualizations are solution components, they can be transported between organizations like any other customizations. The visuals can be configured using the customization tools in the CRM Web application, not requiring to write code.

Enhanced Business Processes

CRM 2015 allows you to create branching rules and the ability to combine multiple conditions within a rule.

Enhanced Business Rules

CRM 2015 business rules can now contain If/Then logic and the ability to combine expressions using And/Or.

New operators in the Advanced Find The new operators are called ‘under’ and ‘Not Under’. These in some cases interact with new hierarchical security model in CRM 2015, and in other cases work with the hierarchy of accounts and other entities which have hierarchy model

Manage your configuration data

The configuration Migration tool enables you to move configuration data across CRM instances and organizations. Configuration data is used to define custom functionality in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and is typically stored in custom entities. Configuration data is different from the end user data (account, contacts, and so on).

Hierarchical Security Models

This will allow managers to access records for their direct reports based on Hierarchy across the organization. As a system administrator, this is going to be a huge time saver.

With the addition of the new security items, the Security has been moved to its own section in the navigation under SettingsSecurity related items have been moved to security along with the new Hierarchy settings:

To enable the Hierarchy Security model select the Hierarchy Security item.

This will bring up the settings:

Calculated and Rollup attributes

Calculated and rollup attributes free the user from having to manually perform calculations and focus on their work. System administrators can now easily define a field to contain the value of many common calculations without having to work with a developer.