CRM Grid Editor - All done with Javascript

It's not very often that I see something new for Microsoft CRM that really impresses me to the point where I feel like I need to tell everyone about it. After all, CRM 4.0 has been out in the wild for more than 2 years now, and in that time many people in the CRM community have contributed the add-ons, tricks and code snippets to fill in short-comings in the product, or generally improve it's useability.

Today, however, is different. A colleague brought a blog post to my attention that really blew me away. The post is from Dave Berry, on his CRM Entropy blog, and it includes the code and instructions for implementing a feature that I've been missing in CRM since the v1.0 days: the ability to edit records in a list view, or grid.

We've built similar functionality using server-side technologies that have worked quite well. But they are complex and can be a challenge to implement. Dave's code is built completely in javascript and is embedded behind buttons via the ISV.Config XML. We've tested it out on some dev machines, and it's fast and very intuitive. Because it's all handled via the ISV.Config, I believe this will work on CRM Online as well.

I can easily foresee this client-side extension becoming a staple of every CRM project we do. Congratulations, Dave, on a job well done!