is window.top.location.reload(); supported for dynamics crm online?

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Hi all,

Please let me know if window.top.location.reload(); is a supported method to use in dynamics crm.

I use this to reload the page on click of a third party iframe subgrid. Wanted to know if this is a supported way. If not please tell me the supported way to refresh the entire page using javascript!

Thanks in advance!

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JohnAnonymous 5,241 on at

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No, as far as I know, it's not supported and I don't think there's a supported alternative.

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shivaram 3,315 on at

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Hi Nithika,

In my scenario, after clicking on ribbon button, I should open a Dialogue (Custom). So from that I should refresh parent window. So I used,

parent.location.reload();

And its working. You can try it once.

Hope it helps you.

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Hi Nithika,

location.reload is the JavaScript method which is just reloading the form which is equivalent to refresh the page. As it is not changing anything, this can be consider as *not* unsupported and again as is is not from the Xrm framework it doesn't fall into supported category as well.

In short, it should work for you. However if you still want to go for supported alternatives, you can use below JavaScript.

Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm("account", Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId());

msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj602956.aspx

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi,

clicking F5 or ctrl+F5 in the browser can't be considered unsupported, and, so, window.top.location.reload() can't be considered unsupported either - that's just treating those manuals to the letter.. The idea is that you can't manipulate DOM model if you don't want to run into troubles. But window.top.location.reload() does not have anything to do with DOM manipulations - this method is available in all browsers (although.. what happens on mobile etc can be a different question)

On a side note, window.top.location.reload() seems to be an equivalent of ctrl+f5(according to the post below), so it will reload all static content as well:

stackoverflow.com/.../difference-between-window-location-href-window-location-href-and-window-location

"Also note that location.reload() will also force reload all static content (much like a ctrl+f5 style hard refresh) whereas setting location.href back to href (or pathname or URL) does not, which could be a significant (and unnecessary) difference in load time on some pages"

PS. Although w3schools disagree: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_loc_reload.asp

Looks like you have to pass true as a paremeter to reload the cache

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