0x80040216 An unexpected error occurred Platform while sending mail through custom workflow activity in CRM 4


Hi,

We were getting the below error

<error>

  <code>0x80040216</code>

  <description>An unexpected error occurred.</description>

  <type>Platform</type>

</error>

on our custom workflow activity for the following requests

SendEmailRequest

SendEmailFromTemplateRequest

This is how we were creating the CrmService instance

workflowContext.CreateCrmService(true);

however later we changed it to

workflowContext.CreateCrmService();

and the error got resolved.

 

CreateCrmService(bool asAdminUser):

Both of these methods return an ICrmService interface. This is optimal way to interact with CRM to execute the various requests in the CRM web service. The overload allows you to execute with more privileges if needed; just in case the current user doesn’t have the required privileges to perform some action in your custom business logic.

More on IWorkflowContext interface

http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2009/06/24/microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-iworkflowcontext-interface.aspx

bye.

Calling form’s JavaScript functions in ISV.CONFIG


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…

Set ActivityParty for DynamicEntity


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..

The ‘System.ServiceModel/ServiceHostingEnvironment’ configuration section cannot be created. The Machine.config file is missing information error on opening CRM


Hi,

I got this error while opening CRM 4 !

The solution was to run the following command

ServiceModelReg.exe –i

which could be found at

C:Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation.

Followed by an IISReset.

However in few cases to resolve it, it requires reinstallation of IIS.

ServiceModel Registration tool with -i option

Registers this version of WCF and update scriptmaps at the Internet Information Services (IIS) metabase root and for all scriptmaps under the root. Existing scriptmaps of lower versions are upgraded to this version.

 

Bye.

Email Description Field / Body field and JavaScript in CRM


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..

Code to retrieve status value based on status label in CRM 3


This code is for retrieving status value based on status text for salesorder entity.

 

public int RetrieveStatusValue(EntityName Entity, string StatusValue)
   {

       int intStatus = 0;

       MetadataService MetaService = new MetadataService();
       MetaService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

       AttributeMetadata am = MetaService.RetrieveAttributeMetadata(Entity.ToString(), "statuscode");
       StatusAttributeMetadata sm = (StatusAttributeMetadata)am;

       foreach (StatusOption so in sm.Options)
       {
           if (so.State == 0)
           {
               if (so.Description.Trim().ToLower() == StatusValue.ToLower())
               {
                   intStatus = so.OptionValue;
                   break;
               }
           }
       }

       am = null;
       sm = null;

       MetaService.Dispose();

       return intStatus;
   }

 

To call the function

RetrieveStatusValue(EntityName.salesorder, "Draft");

 

Bye.

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