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Using multiple JavaScriptFunction for Actions in CRM 2011 Ribbon.

Hi,

We had a requirement in which we wanted to add some functionality on the existing Distribute Campaign Activity button for Campaign Activity entity.

For e.g. before we start the distribution we wanted to check for a specific value for all the Marketing Lists associated to that Campaign Activity. Based on it we wanted to proceed further or stop the distribution.

So we created a new custom button using the same definitions used for the existing Distribute Campaign Activity button (i.e. same CommandDefinitions and RuleDefinitions). The only thing we added was the new JavaScriptFunction in the Actions menu. It was referring to the function name CheckMLUA inside the webresource name new_CheckML

Now inside this new JavaScriptFunction we wanted to call the CallDistribute function that is being used by the OOB Distribute Campaign Activity button

For this to work we defined the FunctionName as isNAN for campaignactivity.js.

“For each library, add a <JavaScriptFunction Library=”$webresource:webresourceName” FunctionName=”isNaN” /> node. It requires a function name, so we’ve just been putting isNaN in there so there’s no error.”

</JavaScriptFunction>

And our function

RibbonDiffXML

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<RibbonDiffXml>
 <CustomActions>
 <CustomAction Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.CustomAction" Location="Mscrm.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Controls._children" Sequence="41">
 <CommandUIDefinition>
 <Button Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute" Command="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Command" Sequence="0" ToolTipTitle="$LocLabels:WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.LabelText" LabelText="$LocLabels:WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.LabelText" ToolTipDescription="$LocLabels:WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Description" TemplateAlias="o1" Image16by16="/_imgs/MA/CampaignActivityDistribute_16.png" Image32by32="/_imgs/MA/CampaignActivityDistribute_32.png" />
 </CommandUIDefinition>
 </CustomAction>
 </CustomActions>
 <Templates>
 <RibbonTemplates Id="Mscrm.Templates"></RibbonTemplates>
 </Templates>
 <CommandDefinitions>
 <CommandDefinition Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Command">
 <EnableRules>
 <EnableRule Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Command.EnableRule.FormStateRule" />
 </EnableRules>
 <DisplayRules>
 <DisplayRule Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Command.DisplayRule.EntityPrivilegeRule" />
 </DisplayRules>
 <Actions>
 <JavaScriptFunction Library="$webresource:new_CheckML" FunctionName="CheckMLUA" />
 <JavaScriptFunction FunctionName="isNaN" Library="/_static/ma/campaignactivity/campaignactivity.js">
 <CrmParameter Value="PrimaryEntityTypeCode" />
 </JavaScriptFunction>
 </Actions>
 </CommandDefinition>
 </CommandDefinitions>
 <RuleDefinitions>
 <TabDisplayRules />
 <DisplayRules>
 <DisplayRule Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Command.DisplayRule.EntityPrivilegeRule">
 <EntityPrivilegeRule EntityName="activitypointer" PrivilegeDepth="Basic" PrivilegeType="Create" />
 </DisplayRule>
 </DisplayRules>
 <EnableRules>
 <EnableRule Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Command.EnableRule.FormStateRule">
 <FormStateRule State="Existing" />
 </EnableRule>
 </EnableRules>
 </RuleDefinitions>
 <LocLabels>
 <LocLabel Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.Description">
 <Titles>
 <Title languagecode="1033" description="Distribute Description" />
 </Titles>
 </LocLabel>
 <LocLabel Id="WWB.Form.campaignactivity.MainTab.Actions.Distribute.LabelText">
 <Titles>
 <Title languagecode="1033" description="Distribute" />
 </Titles>
 </LocLabel>
 </LocLabels>
 </RibbonDiffXml>
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The helpful links

http://rajeevpentyala.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/loading-dependent-jscript-libraries-in-ribbon-buttons-execution-crm-2011/

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/is/crmdevelopment/thread/02ed3c05-05c2-4638-a139-e070db4561b0

Bye.

Writing a Plugin on “Distribute Campaign Activity” message in CRM.

Hi,

We recently had a requirement to execute a plugin when a CampaignActivity is distributed using “Distribute Campaign Activity” button.

As it turned out, this message was not available.

As it was on premise, we enabled it in an unsupported manner i.e. by updating the sdkmessagefilterbase table in orgname_mscrm database.

SQL Query Used :-

update sdkmessagefilterbase

set isCustomProcessingStepAllowed=1

where

sdkmessageid=(select sdkmessageid from sdkmessagebase where name=‘DistributeCampaignActivity’)

and

primaryObjectTypecode=‘4402’

Hope this helps.

Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools on Windows Server 2008

Hi,

While trying to install Windows Phone Developer Tools on my machine which has Windows Server 2008 i faced lot of issues.

Finally i followed the steps mentioned in the following post to get it installed successfully.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx

I tried the same thing on “Windows Phone SDK 7.1” but couldn’t get it working properly.

And moreover it only worked on a system that had no other version of Visual Studio installed in it.

Hope it helps.

Hiding Ribbon Button using JavaScript in CRM 2011.

Suppose based on some value we want to hide the Run Workflow button from Ribbon through JavaScript in form’s onload event.

Firt get the Id of the button using IE Developer Tool and then use display property to hide it


var btnRunWorklfow=top.document.getElementById("new_student|NoRelationship|Form|Mscrm.Form.new_student.RunWorkflow-Large");
btnRunWorklfow.style.display='none';

Bye.

Hiding Rectangle in SSRS

In one of our reports we were using List Control to show information related to Account(Business) and its related Task and Appointments. The information was being shown in three different Tablix respectively and if there were no Task and Appointments then we were hiding the Account (Business) Tablix and Rectangle by setting their Hidden Property.

Fig. Three Tablix inside the List Control.

However after running the report we realized that Rectangles although were hiding properly but were still consuming the white space. Because of this we had blank white spaces in our report.

So to display the reports properly we had to set the Hidden Property of the Row also.

Select the Row and Right click it.