Gareth Tucker: Utilising some of Microsoft CRM 2011’s Hidden Functions

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I stumbled across this today.  Not sure if this is common knowledge. It is likely not supported. It is however interesting.

Today I wanted to save an Activity record as completed and close the form all via java script.  i.e. I wanted to be able to do the same thing that clicking this button does:



I wondered whether the CRM ribbon definition would reveal what this button does.  Sure enough it does.   Looking in…

\sdk\samplecode\cs\client\ribbon\exportribbonxml\exportedribbonxml\phonecallribbon.xml

… I found that the “Mark Complete” button calls a command called:

"Mscrm.SavePrimaryActivityAsComplete"

As you can see below:



This Command is a Ribbon Command and a quick ctrl-F in that same file quickly located the definition of the Command:



As you can see the button calls a Function called “SaveAsCompleted” which resides in a java script library called activity.js.

I wondered whether I could call this function from my java script.   Sure enough I can:



Works exactly as I hoped.

Does this mean I have java script access to lots of additional functionality?  I hope so!

p.s. Another approach that might work here and may be a little more supported is to programmatically click the Ribbon button.  I haven’t tried that.

p.p.s  If you are curious as to what the code behind this function is you can locate it on your CRM server under:  \CRMWeb\_static\Activities

Here it is:

function SaveAsCompleted(){if(!crmForm.IsValid())return;crmForm.SubmitCrmForm(58,true,true,false)}
Regards,

Gareth




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