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toString null or undefined – Description I can bet that each of you has at some point encountered with this issue. Especially when working on custom entities or customized built-in entities form. What is the cause? Hmm, there is a couple of possible reasons. Reasons First of all – Microsoft fault 🙂 Some internal form scripts […]
Save and publish one click – what is it for If you are customizing loads of entities forms here is a solution that can speed it up a bit – save and publish one click. When I customize form, the most often repeated operations are: save publish close customization form reload entity record form Solution […]
Entity name by object type code – what is the issue Recently I found myself in a situation where there was no Xrm.Page.data.entity object so getEnityName() could not be used. Yes, there are form where it’s not available 🙂 I thought, phi, piece of cake. I remembered that there is FormEditorWebService.asmx which has a GetEnityId() so […]
What for? Some time ago I had to create and customize ~20 entities. After editing form, saving, publishing and reloading over and over again I thought about creating custom button for publishing. Yeah – why not. But this functionality already exists Yes, that’s true. If anyone hasn’t check how does the built-in publish button works […]
Some time ago I needed to find all dirty attributes on form. Easy I thought. It occurs that some at some entitites getIsDirty() flag for field statuscode is always set – check on clean form load. To get all changed fields I’ve written method that read all dirty fields on form excluding specified fields. GetDirtyFields: […]
Recently, I’ve came accross situation, that despite the fact that certain field has been change on CRM form, a javascrift flag getIsDirty() == false. I’ve noticed that just after changing field value user is clicking ribbon button and that was the reason. Flag getIsDirty() is beeing set when form control loose focus – operating on […]
Suppose we have to fields: A and B, for both fields there is registered OnChange() event, field B is disabled. In OnChange_fieldA() code we are changing fieldB attribute, but OnChange_fieldB() is not fired. Why? Build-in javascript mechanism doesn’t notify field attribute change if field is disabled or change is made via JS code, not via UI. […]
While writing javascript code it is the most fundamental question. Both ways are capable of CRUD operations, so what is the difference? Recently I’ve written some code to retrieve only one flag from opportunity entity at JS. Beside that JS entity had registered plugin at PreRetrieve. Of course in plugin code I was checking if […]
REST endpoint is one way of retrieving data on client side. REST operations are using datasets, which are treated as entity item collections. Personally the easiest way of using REST endpoint is to use XrmServiceTooltkit.REST library. Where to find datasets? http://servername:port/OrganizationName/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/ … – <collection href=”new_errorSet“> <atom:title>new_errorSet</atom:title> </collection> … Where to find fieldnames used […]
Info: If you have ever, I assume you must have, been annoyed with JS: reading date/time format reading date/time separator reading currency precision reading decimal symbol reading decimal separator don’t worry. You’re not alone. Recently I’ve came across a problem of different date formats on grid view for users. Base setting has been overridden by […]