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Pass Execution Context to JS Script function as a parameter from a Ribbon button in Dynamics 365 | Ribbon Workbench

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One of the most common searches around customizing ribbon buttons is to send the Execution Context / Form Context as a parameter to the JavaScript function your Ribbon button is set to call.

Pass Form Context to the JS in Ribbon

Let’s see how you can pass form context as a parameter to the JS method on from your Ribbon button

  1. Let’s say you have a ribbon on the Opportunity that does something based on budget, so I’ve called it Budget.

  2. In the Ribbon Workbench, the button is calling the command which has a JS Function tied to it. Add a CRM Parameter to the JavaScript Action

  3. Once you select CRM Parameter, you’ll need to pass on the Primary Control as shown below

  4. Then, it’ll look like this on your JS Function

Accessing Form Context

Let’s say you have opened the Dev Tools on your browser by pressing F12, then click the button (assuming you either have set a breakpoint inside the function or using debugger; to stop at a point inside the function that button calls). And then you click the button


Once you debug, you’ll see this when you hit the debugger when you function is called.
The debugger will be hit

And if you check in the Console, you’ll see the complete context passed to the function

Hope this helps!

Here are some Ribbon Workbench related posts you might want to check –

  1. Pass selected rows’ GUIDs to ribbon button in D365 | Ribbon Workbench
  2. Debug Ribbon button customization using Command Checker in Dynamics 365 CE Unified Interface
  3. Show Ribbon button only on record selection in Dynamics CRM
  4. Hide Custom Ribbon Button [Easy Way] – Ribbon Workbench
  5. Enable Flow button on D365 Ribbon
  6. [SOLVED] Navigating URL from Ribbon’s custom button in Dynamics for Phones app
  7. Fix Ribbon icons on the Unified Interface in D365 CE
  8. D365 Ribbon Button shortcut to open a Document in SharePoint Online

Thank you!

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Pass data to HTML Web Resource using browser’s sessionStorage in Dynamics 365 CE

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If you’re using Xrm.Navigation.openWebResource(webResourceName, windowOptions, data), you probably are already using ‘data’ to the HTML Web Resource you are opening.

Here, I’m using an alternate method. I use JSON to send my data since it is widely preferred and used. Basically, I’ll Stringify my JSON object and add it to session storage, then – retrieve it from sessionStorage and Parse is back to object.

 

Opening Web Resource

Now, in my example, I’m not passing my data in the ‘data’ parameter provided by Xrm.Navigation.openWebResource(), instead I’m putting it in JSON.

  1. Let’s say, somewhere in my code, I want to send out a JSON to the HTML Web Resource which will open in a new window.
    So, instead of passing ‘data’ to Xrm.Navigation.openWebResource(), I’ll simply do the following –
    First, create a JSON object of what I want to send as data.
    Then, I’ll use sessionStorage.setItem(“<key>”, JSONObject); to add it to the sessionStorage and then open the WebResource using Xrm.Navigation.openWebResource()
    storedInSession

Reading from Session Storage

Reading from sessionStorage is as easy as putting data into it. Just the reverse –

  1. Assuming you are familiar with HTML and JS references, make sure you have correctly referenced the JS file you want to use with your HTML. Provide the name of the Web Resource in which you have your JS code.
    fileReferrenced
  2. Once the HTML document is loaded (I prefer using JQuery here to put things into document), you can read the same using sessionStorage.getItem(“<Key>”);

    And then, JSON.parse() the object retrieved from sessionStorage.
    retrived

  3. Also, if you look at the Application tab in Dev Tools of your browser, you can check for Session Storage info.
    You’ll find the Item you stored to the session
    inApplication

That way, you can use sessionStorage to keep your data in the browser session if you don’t have any other concerns or reasons not to use sessionStorage.

 

Hope this helps!!

Global Notification in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface App [Preview]

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Here’s a great feature to add a warning/error notification which is scoped globally unlike setFormNotification() which is commonly used and remains within a form itself.

Xrm.App.addGlobalNotification(notificationObject).then(success, error); serves this purpose. Let’s see how –

Disclaimer: Please be aware this is a preview feature yet and I’ll update on this post once this is out of preview.

This is only available for the Unified Interface.

Scenario

Let’s say you have opened an Account form and you want to warn the user in case they are working remotely with someone and might have their screen shared. You want to show a message like this –
globalNotif

And even if they navigate away from the form, it will remain on the screen since it’s scope is global.
navigatedOtherPlaces

Or, user can chose to close it manually which appears at the end of the strip on top-right corner.
canCloseIt

You can also optionally add a button and make it navigate to another URL in case you want to share more info with the users (In my example, I redirected to https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/) –
learnMoreButton

Example

Xrm.App has 2 methods to do the needful –

Xrm.App.addGlobalNotification(notificationObject).then(success, error) & Xrm.App.clearGlobalNotification(notificationObject).then(success, error)

In my scenario, I want to trigger the warning message as soon as the user wanders into one of the Account records. So, in my case, I’ve registered the method onLoad of the Account form itself.
Here’s the code in my JS file for the same –

Some notes before we proceed with the code –

  1. type in the notification object is supported as 2 at the moment and no other types are supported.
  2. The levels are as below
    1. Success
    2. Error
    3. Warning
    4. Information

account = {
globalNotification: function () {

var learnMoreAction =
{
actionLabel: “Learn more”,
eventHandler: function () {
Xrm.Navigation.openUrl(“https://microsoft.com&#8221;);
}
}
var notificationObj =
{
type: 2,
level: 3, //warning
message: “Please make sure you are not sharing your screen!”,
showCloseButton: true,
action: learnMoreAction
}

Xrm.App.addGlobalNotification(notificationObj).then(
function success(result) {
console.log(“Notification created with ID: ” + result);

// More code here
},
function (error) {
console.log(error.message);
// handle error here
}
);
}

};

I’ve registered the Function as account.globalNotification. You can directly use globalNotification is you are writing function directly as function globalNotification() {}

fnAdded

This notification remains App-wide unless closed by closed by a user of closed using clearGlobalNotification method as mentioned by Microsoft.

Source documentation by Microsoft is here – Xrm.App

Since we are transitioning into Unified Interface, here are some other related posts that you may like looking at –

  1. D365 Quick Tip: Why BPF wouldn’t appear in D365 Unified Interface?
  2. Fix Ribbon icons on the Unified Interface in D365 CE
  3. Change the Unified Interface App Icons
  4. Unified Interface App URLs – 3 different ways

Hope this helps!!

Custom View Filter JS code not working in Dynamics 365 CE. Why? [Quick Tip]

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One of the major pet-peeve is not understanding why the code isn’t working. And you for sure know you’ve written the correct code. But, thing just don’t work.

One such tricky situation is that of applying custom filter to fields using JavaScript in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement apps.

Scenario

Let’s say you have a custom filter to be applied to a field and you’ve written your JS code on Load to apply the filter and everything (you know what you need to do!)

Example:
defaultCode

But the above is just not working. Why???
contactNotWorking

Reason

The reason is pretty simple! Because, the Lookup field is still using the one set on the field itself. Check that –

onFieldFilteringOn

 

The above should be turned off to make your code work since the field’s default OOB filtering takes precedence.
turnedOff

And now, your code should work (Provided everything in it correct)

working

 

Hope this quick tip helps!

What is “Does not support untyped value in non-open type” ODataException in creating records in D365 CE?

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One of the most common errors we come across while calling API to create records in Dynamics but isn’t clear what it means? One such issue is – “An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: Does not support untyped value in non-open type.”

On the console of the browser, you’ll see this –
consoleLoggedError

But, if you open the <objectName>.responseText of the Failure message of the call, you’ll see the below –

originalErrorA more zoomed view of the error would be below –

badRequest

This is because of my typo in the code [Which is the case for most scenarios] where you mistype a name of the field and neither does the error itself doesn’t specify which field you’re missing out on nor what it means!

Reason

This is because of a simple typo  in one of the fields in the object I was creating using AJAX

faultLine

In my case, this should have been “entity.duration” and not “entity.durationn“.

It was a simple issue which led me wander troubleshooting in areas which I shouldn’t look into.

Hope this saves you some valuable time! Happy 365ing!

Set Lookups in Xrm.WebApi D365 v9 correctly. Solving ‘Undeclared Property’ error

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Using Xrm.WebApi needs you to be careful with the field names and what to use when. Especially, when you are dealing with Lookups.

One of the most common errors you’ll come across is the one like below – “An undeclared property (fieldname you entered) which only has property annotations in the payload but no property value was found in the payload.”

error

This is confusing as to what needs to be put in while setting the lookup.

If you have done the below, entered the name of the field which is all in small caps  –

object[“msdyn_resourcerequirement@odata.bind”] = “/msdyn_resourcerequirements(<Guid>)”;

This will result in the above error!!!

 

You’ll need to put the Schema name of the lookup field instead and this should solve your problem –

correctName.png

and the code should look like this –

object[“msdyn_ResourceRequirement@odata.bind”] = “/msdyn_resourcerequirements(<Guid>)”;

And this should totally work for you!!

Hope this helps! 🙂