Several months ago, I wrote a post that showed how to automatically display the results of an HTTP POST request inside a Dynamics 365 iframe. I was working on a project last week where I was tried to use that approach, but I ran into some problems, so today I will present an updated approach. »
The Dynamics CRM SDK allows you to set the source URL for an iframe control on a form, and that is fine if all you need to do is load web pages that are accessible via HTTP GET requests. If you need to automatically display the results of an HTTP POST request inside an iframe, it’s a bit more challenging. »
I recently moved this site from BlogEngine.NET to Orchard, and I decided I wanted to offer some basic HTML formatting (bold, italic, hyperlinks, etc.) functionality for comments, but I didn’t want to do any significant amount of coding. After some research I realized that Markdown syntax would be the easiest way to let my visitors add HTML to their comments, and I could enable it with just a few bits of JavaScript. »
Last month I wrote a post about how to create a web resource dialog “launcher” that you can embed in a CRM form (both classic and updated modes) with JavaScript and an OData query. In today’s post, I will show how to do the same thing using a FetchXML query. There are four changes you need to make to the web resource from the previous post. »
I love Dynamics CRM dialogs. In fact, I think they are one of the best features of CRM 2011. What I don’t like about dialogs is how the user has to run them when working with a entity record. On a “classic” mode form, the user has to go to the ribbon, click start dialog and then find the dialog in a list. »