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Set lookup using JavaScript from a child Window

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Posted on by Gennaro

Hi there,

In my CRM 2016 8.1.0.359, I have an IFRAME which contains an HTML WebResource (a webpage with a simple button) on the main form of the entity "incident".

If I create a new incident (without saving it!) and then I click on this button, I open a new window (another HTML Page) in which I implemented a custom search using a 3th part web service.

When I found the record I need, I click on it and I want to set it into the lookup "customerid"

This is my fragment of code for creating the value to put into the lookup:

var object = new Array();
object[0] = new Object();
object[0].id = "{" + value + "}";
object[0].name = entityDisplayValue;
object[0].entityType = entityName;


where value contains a GUID without the brench, entityName can be "account" or "contact" and entityDisplay name of the account or the contact.

At this point I tried the following 3 lines of code but without success:

window.parent.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("customerid").setValue(object);
window.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("customerid").setValue(object);
window.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("customerid").setValue(object)

if I go in debug and I stop to the "getAttribute" I see in the console that the attribut is recognized but the .setValue do not have any effect and a .getValue always return null.

How can I solve this problem? Do you have any hints?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Gennaro

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  • Gennaro Profile Picture
    Gennaro on at
    RE: Set lookup using JavaScript from a child Window

    Hi there,

    thanks for the suggestion: at the end I can't tell you what the problem was but it worked ... maybe a misspell :)

  • Suggested answer
    Ruben Raposo Profile Picture
    Ruben Raposo 60 on at
    RE: Set lookup using JavaScript from a child Window

    Hi Genaro,

    I don't know if you have been able to solve your challenge, but i found a way to update the lookup or another field from the children window to the parent.

    Please check the piece of code below:

    function SetEmailFrom() {
    
    var object = new Array();
    object[0] = new Object();
    object[0].id = "the id";
    object[0].name = "the name";
    object[0].entityType = "contact";
    
    window.top.opener.frames[0].Xrm.Page.getAttribute("to").setValue(object);
}



  • Gennaro Profile Picture
    Gennaro on at
    RE: Set lookup using JavaScript from a child Window

    Hi Goutam,

    thanks for your reply on my problem :)

    Unfortunately the object window.top.opener.Xrm is null and on my page there is no Xrm object because is a pure HTML page which calls the CRM using the WebAPI.

    Nevertheless I can confirm that:

    window.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("title").getValue()

    get me the value of a text field (in this case "am 16.02.2018")

    and this

    window.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("title").setValue("my value")

    changes instantly the title of the case.

    if I do this:

    window.parent.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("customerid").getValue()

    I get null (and can be OK because the Incident is new)

    but after the .setValue on the "customerid" which is a lookup and I put an object created as you suggested, the following .getValue() continue to return null :(

    As one more info: if I set the "customerid" with this:

    window.parent.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("customerid").getValue()

    I get the value, but the .setValue continue to not work.

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    gdas Profile Picture
    gdas 50,089 on at
    RE: Set lookup using JavaScript from a child Window

    Hi Gennaro,

    Can you write below code

    var lookupValue = new Array();

       lookupValue[0] = new Object();

       lookupValue[0].id = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();

       lookupValue[0].name = Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("firstname").getValue()+" " +Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("lastname").getValue();

       alert(Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("firstname").getValue()+" " +Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("lastname").getValue());

       lookupValue[0].entityType = "Contact";

       window.top.opener.Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("customerid").setValue(lookupValue);

               window.top.opener.Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("name").setValue(Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("firstname").getValue());

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