Tag: CRM 2011

Sharing a sample code that can be used to send JSON data using POST to an external service inside CRM Online Plugin. As plugin runs in sandbox mode we cannot reference Newtonsoft’s JSON.NET library http://www.newtonsoft.com/json. The other option could be to use ILMerge, which isn’t that elegant.

Here, basically we are passing some information related to lead to an external service on Post Create of it.

using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
using System.Text;

namespace MyTestPlugin
{

 public class Lead
 {
 public string Topic { get; set; }
 public string FullName { get; set; }
 public string Email { get; set; }
 }

 public class MyPluginClass : IPlugin
 {
 public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
 {
 try
 {
 // Obtain the execution context from the service provider.
 IPluginExecutionContext context = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

 // The InputParameters collection contains all the data passed in the message request.
 if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)
 {
 // Obtain the target entity from the input parameters.
 Entity entity = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

 using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
 {
 var myLead = new Lead();
 myLead.Topic = entity.Attributes["subject"].ToString();
 myLead.FullName = entity.Attributes["fullname"].ToString();
 myLead.Email = entity.Attributes["emailaddress1"].ToString();

 DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Lead));
 MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
 serializer.WriteObject(memoryStream, myLead);
 var jsonObject = Encoding.Default.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());


 var webClient = new WebClient();
 webClient.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] = "application/json";
 var code = "key";
 var serviceUrl = "https://xyz.azurewebsites.net/api/mylead?code=" + code;

 // upload the data using Post mehtod
 string response = webClient.UploadString(serviceUrl, jsonObject);
 }
 }
 }
 catch (Exception ex)
 {
 throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(ex.Message);
 }
 }
 }
}

Hope it helps..

While creating a new organization using Deployment Manager we got the below message

It was because we had entered the Workgroup Product key which restricts it to only organization.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh699677.aspx

Changing the product key to the server one, allowed creating the new organizations.

Hope it helps..

Using the Lookup, LookupSet and Multilookup functions we can basically combine values from 2 different data set.

The definition of them are

Lookup/LookupSet/Multilookup(source_expression, destination_expression, result_expression, dataset)

source expression – the field from the source data set (for e.g. primary key)

destination expression – the field to be matched from the destination dataset (sort of foreign key)

result expression – the field whose value has to be returned from the destination dataset

dataset – destination dataset name.

For e.g. we have custom entity Team and Team Members (1 à n)

We have following two DataSet one for Team and one for Team Members.

1. DSTeam
   

1. DSPlayer
   

The sample report has the Tablix which is bound to DSTeam and has two columns one which is bound new_name field of DSTeam dataset and the second column which gets the player name from DSPlayer dataset.

Output:

Lookup function picks the “first matching value” from the second dataset DSPlayer.

To get all the matching we need to use the LookupSet function (along with Join)

Output:

To understand Multilookup, let us create one more entity Tournament that will have a text attribute which stores comma separated team name.

Let us create one more dataset DSTournament and bound it to a new table. Which have one column which lists the Tournament name and the other column that does the multilookup to DSPlayer to get the player name.

It brings the first matching value, by searching (doing lookup) on multiple value i.e. India and South Africa

Hope it helps..