Question

We offer multiple packages with features for our clients with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Is there a way where we can publish our sollutions with our modifications for certain entities without overwriting the form layout that already existed.

How should we organise our sollutions so there will be no conflicts within the entities in our sollutions nor with the entities that were already modified by our clients where we want to install our sollution?

now we have to modify most entities manualy…

I hope you have some experience you want to share with us.

Answer 1

We broke up each section of our project into solutions. For example, entities, reports, plugins, etc.

This allowed us to deploy bits and pieces of our project as we went along (moving from dev -> test -> production).

You can’t break out pieces of entities (or exclude things like the forms), but you could export the existing solution, make your changes and then re-import (as a manage or unmanaged).

There’s a really good diagram here under “Conflict Resolution”.