Need Good Approach - please Suggest : Want to call External API from Dynamics CRM except Scripting & want to capture response of API

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Hi All,

I want to call External API in dynamic crm & want to bind html grid with API response.

there is limitation to call my External API using script (i mean browser security). Is there any other way ? how can i achieve this ?

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RE: Need Good Approach - please Suggest : Want to call External API from Dynamics CRM except Scripting & want to capture response of API

Call a ajax call from java script

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Purushotham Boomireddy
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RE: Need Good Approach - please Suggest : Want to call External API from Dynamics CRM except Scripting & want to capture response of API

Create Action & build Plugin to call External API.

call your action from JavaScript.
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RE: Need Good Approach - please Suggest : Want to call External API from Dynamics CRM except Scripting & want to capture response of API

Well, create 5 fields..

Although, maybe you just need to create a "proxy" web site somewhere to host that html grid page. It might still talk to the parent web form in CRM using HTML5 postmessage, for example:

blog.teamtreehouse.com/cross-domain-messaging-with-postmessage
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RE: Need Good Approach - please Suggest : Want to call External API from Dynamics CRM except Scripting & want to capture response of API

Hi Alex,

thanks for your reply , but response of api is more than 5,00,000+ character. so fieldis not capable to store it.
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RE: Need Good Approach - please Suggest : Want to call External API from Dynamics CRM except Scripting & want to capture response of API

Hi,

you might create an on-retrieve plugin for the entity for which you want to display that grid, add a multi-line text field to the entity, and use the plugin to

1) Retrieve required data from the external API every time somebody is about to open a record of that entity type in CRM

2) Serialize retrieved data into a json string and add results to the field created above (you don't need to store that data in the database)

Then you can use javascript on the "client" to parse that json