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Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 36573

Create Appointment with Multiple Recipients in Dynamics

I need to create an appointment with multiple recipients in MS Dynamics. Note that I do not actually want to save the appointment...that should only happen once the user clicks save. I just want to display the form with multiple recipients already added.

If I use the URL for the appointment form:

/activities/appointment/edit.aspx

I can specify a partyId url parameter which is the Dynamics GUID for the person I want to add to the recipients....but what if I want to add multiple recipients? Is there a way to do this with URL parameters?

If not, is there a way to programatically add recipients in the form's OnLoad javascript? That is, are there any JavaScript API hooks for this?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 385

Answers (1)

John Hoven
John Hoven

Reputation: 4085

No, you won't be able to set more than one party using CRM's partyid/partyidname query string parameters.

Yes, there are onload hooks. Lookup scripting reference. In the second example you'll see how they set a lookup in script. 

// Add the object to the array.
lookupData[0] = lookupItem;

You'd just have multiple of these for each of your recipients/resources.

// Add the object to the array.
lookupData[0] = lookupItem;
lookupData[1] = lookupItem2;
lookupData[2] = lookupItem3;

Then its just a matter of how you pass the data to the appointment edit form. You can't add random query string parameters (CRM validates all query string parameters are in a set of known parameters). So you have to do something else to send the data. A couple options...

  • Put the GUIDs/Names in a cookie in the opening page and parse in the onload (CRM already requires cookies).
  • Create a string attribute and put it on the appointment form. Hide it using javascript (display:none). That part is "unsupported", but you're not going to want a visible attribute containing a bunch of GUIDs. You'll be able to google hiding a form field. Use this attribute to pass/validate your data by query string. Parse the attribute at runtime.

Hope it helps...

Upvotes: 2

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