Category: CRM

Hi,

We had a requirement to check for user’s role on click of one of the isv.config button. So we thought of using JavaScript attribute of the button.

This is one of the very good article about how to use javascript for checking the roles

http://jianwang.blogspot.com/2008/01/crm-40-check-current-users-security.html

However using JavaScript within ISV.Config has its own share of trouble as it is an xml file, so we need to replace so many characters within it and moreover this has to be done very carefully.

So what we decided that we’d put the JavaScript code in the entity’s form’s onload event and would simply call that function within isv.config, than we wouldn’t have to replace characters within JavaScript for making them xml specific.

So suppose this is the JavaScript function

function UserHasRole(roleName)
{
 //get Current User Roles, oXml is an object
 var oXml = GetCurrentUserRoles();
 if(oXml != null)
 {
  //select the node text
  var roles = oXml.selectNodes("//BusinessEntity/q1:name");
  if(roles != null)
  {
   for( i = 0; i < roles.length; i++)
   {
    if(roles[i].text == roleName)
    {
     //return true if user has this role
     return true;
    }
   }
  }
 }
 //otherwise return false
 return false;
}

 

Now to make it reusable, so that we could call it within isv.config we just need to change its declaration

from

function UserHasRole(roleName)

{

// function body

}

to

UserHasRole=function(roleName)

{

// function body

}

and put it in the form’s onload event javascript.

And to call it within Button’s JavaScript –>

UserHasRole(‘System Administrator’)

Just like a normal function !!

 

Bye…

Hi,

To set activityparty property in case of DynamicEntity we need to make use DynamicEntityArrayProperty.

Below is the sample code for creating an appointment programmatically using DynamicEntity and setting requiredattendees which is an ActivityParty property.

CrmSdk.CrmAuthenticationToken myToken = new CrmAuthenticationToken();

        myToken.OrganizationName = "orgname";

        myToken.AuthenticationType = 0;

        CrmSdk.CrmService myService = new CrmService();

        myService.CrmAuthenticationTokenValue = myToken;

        myService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

        DynamicEntity myAppointment = new DynamicEntity();

        myAppointment.Name = EntityName.appointment.ToString();

        StringProperty subject = new StringProperty();

        subject.Name = "subject";

        subject.Value = "Test Subject";

        // Set a contact for party

        DynamicEntity requiredAtt1 = new DynamicEntity();

        requiredAtt1.Name = "activityparty";

        // create a contact property

        LookupProperty contactProp = new LookupProperty();

        contactProp.Name = "partyid";

        Lookup contactLookup = new Lookup();

        contactLookup.type = "contact";

        contactLookup.Value = new Guid("{2DE7671B-987D-DE11-8AB8-0003FFD21C1C}");

        contactProp.Value = contactLookup;

        // add contact property

        requiredAtt1.Properties = new Property[] { contactProp };

        // Set an account for party

        DynamicEntity requiredAtt2 = new DynamicEntity();

        requiredAtt2.Name = "activityparty";

        // create an account property

        LookupProperty accountProp = new LookupProperty();

        accountProp.Name = "partyid";

        Lookup accountLookup = new Lookup();

        accountLookup.type = "contact";

        accountLookup.Value = new Guid("{A4BB3561-748D-DE11-8CD4-0003FFD21C1C}");

        accountProp.Value = accountLookup;

        // add account property

        requiredAtt2.Properties = new Property[] { accountProp };

        // create to property. it is an dynamic entity array

        DynamicEntityArrayProperty raProp= new DynamicEntityArrayProperty();

        raProp.Name = "requiredattendees";

        // add contact and account activity parties

        raProp.Value = new DynamicEntity[] { requiredAtt1, requiredAtt2 };

        // set scheduledStart date

        CrmDateTimeProperty scheduledStart = new CrmDateTimeProperty();

        scheduledStart.Name = "scheduledstart";

        CrmDateTime ss = new CrmDateTime();

        ss.Value = DateTime.Now.ToString();

        scheduledStart.Value = ss;

        // set scheduledend date

        CrmDateTimeProperty scheduledEnd = new CrmDateTimeProperty();

        scheduledEnd.Name = "scheduledend";

        CrmDateTime se = new CrmDateTime();

        se.Value = DateTime.Now.AddHours(1).ToString();

        scheduledEnd.Value = se;        

        myAppointment.Properties = new Property[] { subject,raProp, scheduledStart,scheduledEnd };

        Guid mycontactGuid = new Guid();

        try

        {

            mycontactGuid = myService.Create(myAppointment);

        }

        catch (SoapException ex)

        {

         //   handle exception

        }

Bye..

Hi,

To set description field in email with formatting instead of DataValue we need to use

document.all[‘descriptionIFrame’].contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML="One <br/> Two";

as it is rendered as IFrame.

And in form’s onload to set it we need to use script like this

document.all[‘descriptionIFrame’].attachEvent( "onreadystatechange", stateChanged)
return;
function stateChanged()
{
     if (document.all[‘descriptionIFrame’].readyState==4 ||document.all[‘descriptionIFrame’].readyState=="complete")
          {
     document.all[‘descriptionIFrame’].contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML='<span style="color: #6600cc">this </span>is a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">test</span>’;
     }
}

Check the entire thread here !!

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/crmdevelopment/thread/e349b7fc-f42a-4fa5-aaa4-ba01673a73ed

 

Bye..

While searching for the same I found these article !!

http://rabout.com/?q=ms_dynamics_crm_3_api_axis2

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/crmdevelopment/thread/caf5fa3f-c5f0-43a9-8cfc-4fdb88bb6248

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/crmdevelopment/thread/94524d3c-cf66-4766-8c0c-1a22d9669c24

Bye..

Hi,

I was getting this error on all my callouts, initially they all were running fine. Recently we had tried upgrading CRM 3.0 to CRM 4.0 and had failed in that, so we had CRM 3.0 reinstalled on that machine.

This time the port was different i.e. 100 instead of 5555. And we were using our own config files for callout where we were setting crm’s Url. I modified the url there, followed by an IISRESET but still same error.

Finally i updated my web references( in visual studio)  for my callout to point to the new url with the new port, rebuild it and deployed this callout. This resolved the issue.

Bye..