How to enable auto save on a form

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By default I have auto save turned off at the organization level. However, I have one form where I want it turned of for. I have seen the javascript that shows how to turn it off, but not on. Does anyone know how to turn it on for a certain form? I have a workflow kicking off and then a business rule also kicks off. The business rule is what is causing the unsaved changes. I don't want to have the user to open the record up and click save. So I was wondering if there was something that I can put in via JavaScript that would just save the form automatically without having to open it.

Thank you in advance.

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Alex Fun Wei Jie 33,628 on at

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Hi,

since business rule is the one who causing the unsaved changes. Why dont you set the business rule scope to entity mode.

www.inogic.com/.../business-rule-updates-in-dynamics-crm-2015

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Hi,

The unsaved changes occurs if the values is changed. If you know that business rule is changing the value then why don't you put aditional check to only update the field if the value is not there or not same.?

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gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

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Hi,

I agreed with Alex , try to set the scope of business rules Entity .

Second you can not fire onchange event when field set using business rules so you can put the condition not to set the value if you dont need.

You can not enable autosave for particular entity out of the box , so you can write the complete business rues logic using JS and when you set the value fire Xrm.Page.data.entity.save() .

If you still want to use the business rules then you can try with below code registering method in the onload of the forms , it will save data every certain interval but make sure this is not a good practice.

function AutoSaveForm() { if (Xrm.Page.ui.getFormType() == 2) { // will fire only for update record var intervalId = window.setInterval( function () { window.clearInterval(intervalId); Xrm.Page.data.entity.save() }, 3000); // Data will save every 2 seconds } }

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USA80 26 on at

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Thank you guys...I was able to get this working, by taking the business rules out and putting them in a workflow.

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