Happy New Year – I hope 2015 will bring you lots of good things. Dynamics CRM 2015 upgrades are rolling out to Dynamics CRM online organisations with rapidly increasing frequency and so I have updated the Ribbon Workbench for 2015 support. You will see a new update notification when you next open the Ribbon Workbench and you can let the auto update do the download and install for you. If you would rather install manually you can download and install over the top of the previous version.
Automatic update is mandatory after 10th January – why?
You'll have the option to update before the 10th of January and then you'll be forced to update after that. Some people have asked me other the last couple of years why I roll out these mandatory updates. Initially this was about ensuring that the beta version was updated with any bug fixes but since then it has been a way of ensuring that I keep rolling out new version. I set a 6 month release cycle target so that even though I roll out minor updates I have to roll out at least one mandatory update every 6 months! I hope you don't mind being forced to update too much – I certainly feel that the benefits outweigh the downsides and it keeps me on my toes J
Command bar 2015
The good news about the 2015 command bar is that after the big shift from the ribbon in CRM2013 there haven't been any significant changes. All of your ribbon xml customisations in CRM2013 will remain to work in CRM2015 provided that any JavaScript you are calling in your commands doesn't use any deprecated SDK elements. If you compare the RibbonXml XSD between the CRM2013 and CRM2015 SDKs you'll see that they are in fact identical!
All the best for 2015!
@ScottDurow