Recently while trying to debug a plugin with Persist to Entity mode on the update step, we didn’t find any profile record getting created.
One option is to try to reinstall the profiler. This could happen when we are using a different version of the plugin registration tool and it has the Profiler already installed/configured from the other version of the tool.
If that doesn’t help, then opt for Exception mode, that has always worked.
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TypeScript is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft.
TypeScript adds Type support to JavaScript, which makes sure type checking is done resulting in fewer bugs, adds autocomplete supports in the TypeScript editor, supports Object Orientation and structuring and packing of the code, etc.
The code written in TypeScript transpiles to JavaScript by TSC i.e. TypeScript Compiler.
The easiest way to install TSC is to install it as a Node.js package using NPM i.e. Node Package Manager at the command line.
Download and install Node.js first if it is not already installed.
Make sure to include Node.js runtime and npm package manager.
Now to install TSC, open the terminal and type the below command
npm install -g typescript
g makes sure that it is installed globally and not just in the directory from which we are running the command.
There are different editors available for TypeScript
Let us see how to configure TypeScript for Visual Studio Code.
Download link for Visual Studio Code (if not already installed)
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Open Visual Studio Code and select the working folder or
in Node.js command prompt, create the directory and open the visual studio code from there
From file explorer in Visual Studio Code, create the new .ts file
Create the typescript file with the extension .ts and add the JavaScript code
To compile the TypeScript code, open the integrated Terminal in Visual Studio Code and type
tsc <<FileName.js>>
This creates a new corresponding JavaScript file for the TypeScript file.
To run it use the node command
node <<filename>>
We can also modify the TypeScript compiler’s default behavior by adding tsconfig.json.
Here we have added tsconfig.json file in the project with the following code
Check below link for different compilerOptions
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-options.html
To configure the build, execute Run Build Task…
As we have created the tsconfig.json file earlier, we will be presented with the following option
Select tsc: build to run the build task.
If tsc: watch is selected the compiler will watch for the changes in TypeScript files and runs the transpiler whenever the changes are saved.
To set the build or watch task as default, select Configure Default Build Task from the Terminal menu.
On selecting tsc: build task, tasks.json file is added inside .vscode
This sets build task as default, so now when we run the Run Build Task, we are not prompted to select a task.
This completes the basic environment setup for using TypeScript with Visual Studio Code.
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Imagine a scenario where we have both the disable rule and HideCustomAction implemented for a ribbon button. Let us see with an example what will happen in this scenario.
First, let us implement the display rule to hide the Delete button from Contact form when it is in a disabled state.
For active record à
We can see the delete button in the command bar.
For disabled record à The delete button is not visible.
Now let us hide the button using HideCustomAction
Interestingly the Delete button is not available in case of the active contact record this time.
The reason for this is because the HideCustomAction button removes the specified node from the ribbon so that it is not rendered instead of hiding it. Therefore any other enable or display rules are not applied to that button.
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Recently we had a requirement to delete the Account record without deleting the associated Contact records.
If we try deleting the account record we’d get the following message box
The relationship definition can’t be updated as well to achieve this
So, we wrote a plugin on the pre-validation stage of pre-delete event of Account, which will retrieve and loop through all the child contact records and set its parent customer field as null.
In case of pre-operation the child records were not available.
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<p>public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)<br />
{<br />
ITracingService tracingService = (ITracingService)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITracingService));<br />
IPluginExecutionContext pluginContext = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));<br />
IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));<br />
IOrganizationService organizationService = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(pluginContext.UserId);<br />
EntityReference targetEntity = (EntityReference)pluginContext.InputParameters["Target"];<br />
QueryExpression getContacts = new QueryExpression("contact");<br />
getContacts.Criteria.AddCondition(new ConditionExpression("parentcustomerid", ConditionOperator.Equal, targetEntity.Id));EntityCollection allContacts = organizationService.RetrieveMultiple(getContacts);foreach (Entity contact in allContacts.Entities)<br />
{<br />
Entity contactToBeUpdated = new Entity("contact");<br />
contactToBeUpdated.Id = contact.Id;<br />
contactToBeUpdated.Attributes["parentcustomerid"] = null;<br />
organizationService.Update(contactToBeUpdated);<br />
}}<br />
Another practical scenario
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In one of our recent implementations involving marketing list entity, we were analysing the AddListMembers message for it.
We registered a plugin on AddListMembers message and below were our findings.
So basically, we need to be very careful while implementing a plugin on AddListMembers message.
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Hi,
Recently we had a requirement to show content of Wikipedia page and display it inside CRM in one of the entities form.
For this purpose, we can make use of “MediaWiki web service API.”
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
To create the query, we can use the below tool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3aApiSandbox
The html source code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function SetWikiContent() {
// get country name from crm form
if (Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name") != null) {
var title = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name").getValue();
// set the url
var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=parse&page=" + title + "&prop=text§ion=0&callback=?";
$.getJSON(url, function (data) {
for (text in data.parse.text) {
var text = data.parse.text[text].split("
");
var pText = "";
for (p in text) {
//Remove html comment
text[p] = text[p].split("<!--");
if (text[p].length > 1) {
text[p][0] = text[p][0].split(/\r\n|\r|\n/);
text[p][0] = text[p][0][0];
text[p][0] += "
";
}
text[p] = text[p][0];
//Construct a string from paragraphs
if (text[p].indexOf("
") == text[p].length - 5) {
var htmlStrip = text[p].replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm, '') //Remove HTML
var splitNewline = htmlStrip.split(/\r\n|\r|\n/); //Split on newlines
for (newline in splitNewline) {
if (splitNewline[newline].substring(0, 11) != "Cite error:") {
pText += splitNewline[newline];
pText += "\n";
}
}
}
}
pText = pText.substring(0, pText.length - 2); //Remove extra newline
pText = pText.replace(/\[\d+\]/g, ""); //Remove reference tags (e.x. [1], [4], etc)
Xrm.Page.getAttribute('new_wikiinfo').setValue(pText);
}
});
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="SetWikiContent();">
</body>
</html>
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