Notes Section losing the Activities and Posts CRM 2013

Today I was facing a little problem which was driving me a little bit crazy 😉

I had the Notes Section added to a form and it was not displaying Activities!

After hitting the keyboard with my head for almost 15 minutes, I decided to went online and check Bing to see if it happened to more people.

Luckily I found this post by Mark Margolis from last October and it solved the problem in some entities, both custom and out of the box:

http://markmargolis.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/crm-2013-posts-activities-notes-control

Thank you very much Mark for it, I absolutely recommend your blog, not only it has very useful stuff but also you always find the time to keep it updated and with really interesting articles! Great Work 😉

The thing is that as I said, it almost solve the problem, because there were 2 entities that were still not displaying the activities, after some more digging I found the problem, there is an option on each Form XML called Form Presentation, on those entities that were failing I found it set as 0, the moment I changed it to 1 and reimported the solution the activities appeared!!

So let’s go for a step by step:

Put the Entities in a separate solution, only the entities otherwise the customizations.xml will be too big.
Export the solution as unmanaged.
Extract the Customizations.xml and open it with good old notepad, or any other text editor.
Locate the FormXML for the form you need:
Change the Form Presentation from 0 to 1
Copy back the Customizations.xml into the solution.zip
Import it again.
Problem solved!!