Thank you to those of you that voted on this – it was almost equal between the two, so I've decided to stick with Ribbon Workbench for the following reasons:
- The Command Bar in CRM 2013 is still defined with RibbonXml, but rendered differently. A DisplayRule is used to exclude buttons from the CommandBar.
- The Ribbon is still present on non-refresh entities and in Outlook so it’s important to still have support for Ribbon editing.
- Since the Ribbon Xml remains unchanged, it’s important to understand and differentiate between Tabs/Groups and Layouts.
- The Ribbon Workbench is already an established ‘brand’ than people know about.
So until we have CommandBar Xml in a future version of Dynamics CRM – it’ll always be the Ribbon ‘XML’ Workbench with a *silent* ‘XML’!
The Ribbon Workbench for Dynamics CRM 2013 beta will be available for download very soon:
- Dynamic switching between the Command Bar and Ribbon view
- UI refreshed to match Dynamics CRM 2013
- Performance Optimisations
- Support for new Dynamics CRM 2013 schema
Cheers,
Scott