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Feb 12 2008

What does “Enable presence for this column” do when you Change Column Properties on a View?

Published by Phil at 8:45 pm under Configuration, MSCRM 4.0, What's New?

Ever tried adding a column to a view that is a lookup to a user in Dynamics CRM 4.0? You’ll notice a mysterious checkbox titled “Enable presence for this column”. Now, if you google “Enable presence for this column”, you get nothing (well until I wrote this entry.) So what the heck does this feature do?

 What does

Turns out, it’s a neat new feature of Dynamics CRM 4.0. Now, if you’re signed into Communicator or Windows Live Messenger, the online status circle icon will appear next to users’ names in the view.

 Contact Presence

 See the below msdn blog for more details.

-p

References: http://blogs.msdn.com/lezamax/archive/2008/01/11/crm-4-0-presence.aspx

12 Responses to “What does “Enable presence for this column” do when you Change Column Properties on a View?”

  1. # Patrickon 06 Aug 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Thanks! Just what i needed when i googled. Cheers!

  2. # Philon 07 Aug 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Great, glad my first post served a purpose!

  3. # Barryon 13 Nov 2008 at 8:57 am

    On my Full Name column properties from Active Contacts, this field is checked and “grayed out”. Is there any way to uncheck this field?

    Thanks

  4. # Philon 17 Nov 2008 at 2:03 pm

    Barry — when I go to the Active Contacts view and look at the properties for Full Name, the field is not grayed out. I’m not sure what could be causing this issue, unless maybe it’s a permission issue? Alternatively, you could try exported customizations for the contact entity and messing with the xml for that view, but this is unsupported.

    Thanks,
    Phil

  5. # Pauline Bidenon 20 Jan 2009 at 8:08 am

    This is very useful to know on the basis that I now know that it isn’t going to help me and I won’t spend ages trying to get it to work :)

    However, is there any way of getting CRM to include lookup views in a quick search or even allowing users to sort by the column?

  6. # Philon 20 Jan 2009 at 8:12 am

    Ha, glad to help Pauline. Are you having problems getting a lookup value in a quick search? Be sure to open the attribute in the customization of the entity in question set “Searchable” to Yes. I believe you have to do that in order to sort by that column as well, which is weird.

  7. # Pauline Bidenon 21 Jan 2009 at 1:11 am

    Thanks Phil. The field (Parent Company) is set to searchable in the Contact form, but I am accessing it from a new entity we have created called a Subscription. I want to be able to see the name of the company the contact works for, so I have added the Parent Company field to the view, but I can neither sort or search for it.

    Thanks for your help.

  8. # renaeon 23 Feb 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Great feature, So what I gather is that it has no relation to the column property.(where it is set up) Microsoft has added the enabler in this dialogue box because it was the unlogical place to find it.

  9. # Philon 23 Feb 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Renae,

    Sorry if I was unclear, but it is related to the column for the given view, because if you enable it, you get the presence circle for all data in that column for that view.

    Best,
    Phil

  10. # Matton 08 Jun 2009 at 9:42 am

    Barry -

    I have the same issue as one of the other posts here. The FullName field on teh Active Contacts view has teh Enable field grayed out. Has anyone successfully resolved this?

    We are trying to turn it off on the grid.

    Thnaks

    Matt

  11. # Shantion 17 Aug 2009 at 6:05 am

    Thanks for your notes, it was very helpful, even CRM Help does not help on this check box.

  12. # Beltraoon 05 May 2010 at 10:31 am

    Matt, did you succeed in removing it from Fullname?

    I’ve been trying too but coudln’t.

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