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Retrieve OptionSet Label using SDK.Metadata.RertrieveAttribute method in JavaScript (CRM 2011)

Hi,

Recently we were working on an HTML Web Resource which was using oData to fetch information regarding a particular entity which had multiple optionset fields in it.

As we know using oData we can get the value of the optionset field but not the label. While searching for the best possible way to get the label in Jscript came to know about the sdk.metadata.js sample code in SDK (sdk\samplecode\js\soapforjscript\soapforjscript\scripts)

It has RetrieveAttribute method in it which can be used to get the attribute metadata

We had an optionset attribute named Language in it, this is how we fetched all the label and the value for that field


var languageArray = [];

// this.RetrieveAttribute = function (EntityLogicalName, AttributeLogicalName, MetadataId, RetrieveAsIfPublished, successCallBack, errorCallBack, passThroughObject
 SDK.Metadata.RetrieveAttribute("new_lawyer", "new_primary_language", null, true, function (result) {

for (var i = 0; i < result.OptionSet.Options.length; i++) {
 languageArray[result.OptionSet.Options[i].Value] = result.OptionSet.Options[i].Label.LocalizedLabels[0].Label;
 }
 },
 function (error) {
 alert("error");
 }
 );

Hope it helps !

How to – Get OptionSet Label using FormattedValues property of Entity in Plugin in CRM

The easiest way to get the Label for the option set in plugin is using the FormattedValues property of the Entity.

The Post Create plugin on Contact record getting the label for the address type field.

if (context.InputParameters.Contains(“Target”) && context.InputParameters[“Target”] is Entity){

// Obtain the target entity from the input parmameters.

Entity entity = (Entity) context.InputParameters[“Target”];

if(entity.Contains(“address1_addresstypecode”)){

string addressTypeCodeLabel = entity.FormattedValues[“address1_addresstypecode”];

entity.Attributes[“address1_city”] = addressTypeCodeLabel;

service.Update(entity);}

}

http://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crmmitchmilam/archive/2013/04/18/crm-sdk-nugget-entity-formattedvalues-property.aspx

Hope it helps.

Cannot make a call on this channel because a call to Open() is in progress error in CRM 2011.

Hi,

We had developed a Visual Web Part for SharePoint 2013 that used IOrganizationService of CRM 2011. It was all working fine however yesterday it started throwing this error.

After some investigation we realized that the user whose credentials we were using as Client Credentials for the OrganizationService had recently been changed.

Updating it to the correct updated one fixed the issue for us.

Hope it helps.

Using SOAP and OData endpoint of CRM 2013 online in Windows Store App

Connecting to CRM 2013 Online SOAP and OData endpoint through Windows 8 App.

Using SharePoint CSOM (Client Side Object Model) in CRM 2011 On-Premise Plugin.

Hi,

We recently had a requirement to create List Item in SharePoint every time a case is resolved in CRM.

For this we decided to use SharePoint CSOM i.e.

Added reference to following assemblies in our plugin that will fire on Case Resolution

They can be found at

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\

The plugin gets the content of the KB Article associated to the Case and creates a list item (for a Custom List) in SharePoint.

Sample Code


public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
 {
 IPluginExecutionContext context =
 (IPluginExecutionContext) serviceProvider.GetService(typeof (IPluginExecutionContext));
 if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)
 {

Entity entity = (Entity) context.InputParameters["Target"];

OptionSetValue serviceStage = (OptionSetValue) (entity.Attributes["statecode"]);
 if (serviceStage.Value == 1)
 {

IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory =
 (IOrganizationServiceFactory)
 serviceProvider.GetService(typeof (IOrganizationServiceFactory));

IOrganizationService orgService = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

// Get the KB Article Associated
 ColumnSet cols = new ColumnSet();
 cols.AddColumn("kbarticleid");

// Get the content of the article
 Entity caseEntity = orgService.Retrieve("incident", context.PrimaryEntityId, cols);
 EntityReference entityRef = (EntityReference) caseEntity.Attributes["kbarticleid"];
 Guid kbId = entityRef.Id;
 Entity kbEntity = orgService.Retrieve("kbarticle", kbId, new ColumnSet(true));
 string title = kbEntity.Attributes["title"].ToString();
 string content = kbEntity.Attributes["content"].ToString();
 // create the custom list item in SharePoint using Client Side Object Model of SharePoint 2013

ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://sharepoint/sites/portal/");
 clientContext.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password", "mydomain");
 List announcementsList = clientContext.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("Kb List");

ListItemCreationInformation itemCreateInfo = new ListItemCreationInformation();
 ListItem newItem = announcementsList.AddItem(itemCreateInfo);
 newItem["Title"] = title;
 newItem["Content"] = content;

newItem.Update();

clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

}
 }
 }

Hope it helps.

Mark Complete an Activity on create through Plugin in CRM 2011.

Hi,

We had a requirement to immediately close the Appointment record as completed after creating it. The initial thought was to call Set State Request on the Post Create plugin. That approach gave error. Then we tried passing statecode and statuscode value as input parameter in Pre Plugin. That approach also didn’t work.

Finally we registered a pre update plugin on appointment entity and set the values for statecode and statuscode attributes. This worked for us.

The learning is that on create of Appointment record, update message is also called.