CRM Composite Fields

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 a new field type of composite field came out. This is a single field that appears on for form but when you click into it it pops out with multiple fields.

The user experience is fantastic but the disappointing thing about this field type is that it is only in place for certainly out of the box fields. We can't take advantage of this feature at this time for our custom fields. I hope that we will see in the future this functionality expanded out.

The entity and fields that use this are listed here at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn481581.aspx

Entity	Display Name	Logical name
Contact	Full Name	fullname
	Address 1	address1_composite
	Address 2	address2_composite
Lead	Full Name	fullname
	Address 1	address1_composite
	Address 2	address2_composite
User	Full Name	fullname
	Address	address1_composite
	Other Address	address2_composite
Account	Address 1	address1_composite
Account	Address 2	address2_composite
Quote	Bill To Address	billto_composite
Quote	Ship To Address	shipto_composite
Order	Bill To Address	billto_composite
Order	Ship To Address	shipto_composite
Invoice	Bill To Address	billto_composite
Invoice	Ship To Address	shipto_composite

One of the great things about composite fields are that we can still interact with them via javascript on the form. MSDN has a great article on this at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn481581.aspx . It goes in-depth on how to write scripts around these fields and there attributes.

I hope you found this informative as composite fields don't always come up in more conversations around Dynamics CRM but it's important to know what they are!

Comments

Pankaj vats on 2/23/2017 7:55:55 AM

Hi Jason,

I wish to add Autocomplete on Sales-> Account-> Contact section in CRM 365 .

In Contact section there are Address Filed[ this is "address1_composite"] , which contain country,State,Pincode and many more.

I wish to autocomplete on Key press of country.

ex:- Xrm.Page.getControl("address1_composite_compositionLinkControl_address1_country_i").addOnKeyPress(KeyPressDataLoad);

I am trying but getting error "Cannot read property 'addOnKeyPress' of null".

Please help me out.

Thanks

Pankaj vats

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