Quite often I see the question “how do I rename an area in CRM v3.0?”.
I could write an own example, but Arne Janning already did so in the public community. Here’s his post:
In the CRM-web-client click –> Settings –> Customization –> Export Customizations –> mark Site Map –> More Actions –> Export Selected Customizations –> Hit OK on the dumb dialog.
You get a customizations.xml-file to download. In that file you’ll find five area-elements: Workplace, SFA, MA, CS, Settings. These areas define the top-level structure of the “Wunderbar” (the Outlook-style navigation).
This is an example for an area-element:
<area id=”SFA” shape=”RECT” coords=”0,0,0,0″ resourceid=”Area_Sales” icon=”/_imgs/sales_24x24.gif” descriptionresourceid=”Sales_Description”>
To customize this you could add the “Title”-attribute to overwrite the ResourceId:
<area id=”SFA” title=”Clients” shape=”RECT” coords=”0,0,0,0″ resourceid=”Area_Sales” icon=”/_imgs/sales_24x24.gif” descriptionresourceid=”Sales_Description”>The strucure of the sitemap is well documented in the SDK, which BTW has been updated and improved lately :o)
Client Programming Guide –> Navigation Configuration: SiteMap
Once you have finished your customizations in the sitemap you can upload the again:
Settings –> Customization –> Import Customizations –> select your file –> upload, publish and hit F5 to reload the Wunderbar.
Hope that helps.
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