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Hi CRM gurus out there,

Is there any way that we can add border style and color to the section on crm form? If yes can you pl let me know asap.

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Prashant

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Piotr Kalwasinski 240 on at

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Hi Prashant,

This kind of JavaScript manipulations to form are considered "unsupported", as these are based on DOM model rather than CRM JS object, supplied with SDK. This means that you may develop JS solution for this today, but with next CRM upgrade, DOM elements may be organised differently and your JS solution may no longer work.

I hope this helps,

Piotr

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VPrashant 675 on at

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Hi Piotr,

You are absolutely correct. So that means we can't add the border and color to the section in crm. Not even in .js file. But can you let me know how I can achieve it. Later on we might not need it. But just wanna see that whether it works or not.

Any unsupported way please?

Thank you for your prompt reply.

-Prashant

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Nadeeja Bomiriya 6,804 on at

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Hi Prashant,

+1 for Piotr's comment. The only supported look and feel customizations are done using Themes.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn949334.aspx

I would suggest challenging the requirement. Ask the question from the customer/product owner why they need a border.

Below article highlights common unsupported customizations in Dynamics 365 (CRM).

https://msdynamicscrmblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/common-unsupported-customization-practices-in-dynamics-crm-2013/

Cheers,

Nadeeja

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VPrashant 675 on at

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Hi Nadeeja,

Actually I was looking for this thing:

www.linkedin.com/.../how-colorize-microsoft-dynamics-crm-20132015-crm-consultant

It had some thing that I want. Although it applies to all of the form. Also the requirement is that we have too many sections on the form and the white space between the sections doesn't distinguish the sections on the form; so we thought of giving a border to the sections and nothing else.

- Prashant

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JohnAnonymous 5,241 on at

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Hi Prashant,

As CRM is a web application there is not technical limitation on putting in some javascript to manipulate the HTML / DOM. However, it's unsupported, and not because it will be an issue for Microsoft, but because it will break during updates. All these change broke from crm4 to 2011 to 2013 to 2015 and with Turbo Forms. For the next update there will most likely be an update to the interface again and the customization will break. And at this point in time you will not know if you can fix it again.

So keep that in mind if you are trying to do unsupported customizations. Is it worth the time and effort and does the business really understand the consequences.

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VPrashant 675 on at

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Well, so the bottom line is that I shouldn't do it to avoid future issues. I will try to challenge the requirement as Nadeeja said.

That's it. Got much more knowledge in less than 60 mins. :)

Thank you Piotr, Nadeeja and Martijn for your time.

-Prashant

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