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Using Entity Form Metadata to configure the Entity Form in Portal in Dynamics 365

Sharing a simple example wherein we are configuring the First Name field of the Contact Us Entity Form for the lead entity using Entity Form Metadata.

Suppose we have the below Entity Form configured for Lead entity.

Now go to Entity Form Metadata tab and create a new record.

The record allows us to configure Attribute, Notes, Section etc.

Let us configure the First Name field.

Change the label to “Please Enter First Name”.

First select Type as attribute and specify “firstname” as the attribute to be configured. And then provide the Label.

Prepopulate the field from the First Name of the Current Portal User.

Make the field required

Add instructions to the field

Refreshing the page in the portal updates the first name field in the portal accordingly –

Hope it helps..

Configuring OData feed for Entity List in Portal in Dynamics 365

Suppose we have Entity List configured for a custom entity name Locations.

To configure OData feed go to OData feed tab and check the Enabled checkbox.

Specify the Entity Type Name and Set Name, if none is specified the entity’s schema name is used.

Select the View to be exposed for feed.

URL for the feed

<a href="http://<>/_odata”>http://<<domain>>/_odata

Get the data for the LocationSet à

Filter option à

OrderBy option à

Supported options: –

Hope it helps..

Configuring Map View for Entity List in Portal in Dynamics 365

Let us create a custom entity having latitude and longitude fields (floating point data type) in it. These fields are required for configuring Map View for the entity list.

For e.g. Location is our custom entity.

We have 2 record created and have the entity list configured for the Active Location view.

Entity List for the Location custom entity on the portal :-

Open the Entity List record, go to Map View tab and check Map Enabled check box.

Configure Latitude, Longitude field.

The InfoBox title and description field will be used for the info box that pops up when hovered over the pushpin.

For Credentials, get the Bing Map key

https://www.bingmapsportal.com/

Default Center Latitude and Longitude would define the center point for the map.On refreshing the portal page, it shows the Map with the 2 records as push pin along with the records detail and Get Directions button

Info Box

Hope it helps..

Using Details View to update the Entity List records in Portal in Dynamics 365

Suppose we have configured the Entity List view for showing Contact records

https://nishantrana.me/2017/02/02/using-entity-list-to-show-crm-data-in-portal-in-dynamics-365/

Next we want to update the record in the list, for this we need to configure Web Page for Details View field of the Entity List record.

Here we have specified Contact Details Page web page, this web page has Update Entity Form for Contact in it.

This adds the link for opening the edit page.

Edit Page: –

On Submitting the update, the record gets updated.

Similarly, we can associate a create page having Insert Entity Form in it.

Hope it helps..

Using Custom JavaScript field on Entity List to add JavaScript in Portal in Dynamics 365

Suppose we have added an Entity List on Portal to display Contact information to the portal.

https://nishantrana.me/2017/02/02/using-entity-list-to-show-crm-data-in-portal-in-dynamics-365/

Now we want to add some JavaScript to it. For this we can use the Custom JavaScript field in Options tab of Entity List.


$(document).ready(function () {

$("#EntityListControl").on("loaded", function () {

$('#EntityListControl td').filter(function () {
return this.textContent === "SYSTEM"
}).css("color", "red");

});
});

We can make use of jQuery for this. The above code selects the TD with text System and highlights it with red font colour.

Hope it helps..

Add Attach File additional settings in Entity Form in Portal in Dynamics 365

For attaching files along with an entity form through the portal, we can make use of the Add Attach File section in the Additional Settings tab of Entity Form.

For e.g. in the below Contact Us form, we have checked Attach File check box which basically add the File Control to the web page in the portal.

Allow Multiple Files lets the user attach multiple files. Label would be the label for the control.

Attach File Required option makes attaching a file mandatory and the Required Error message shows the associated error message.

Attach File Save Option– Notes i.e. files are stored as attachment to notes.