Retrieving option set values in a web resource

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Hi,

I'm working on Dynamics 365 and I've created a web resource.

In this web resource in JS, I would like to pass a parameter which is the name of an option set. By this way just by changing the name of the parameter, you will be able to retrieve the option set values of an other option set. In the end Changing the parameter make change the text.

I already know how to get the parameter for stocking the name of the option set in the web ressource.

I really don't know how to proceed, I'm a student learning about crm and a lot of things are new for me. That's why I would appreciate your help to indicate me how should I proceed, and how to do that.

thanks a lot.

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a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello,

I believe you should check how to retrieve metadata using WebApi - msdn.microsoft.com/.../mt607833.aspx

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Hi Carnatik,

as Andrii mentioned, you can use WebAPI to work with the metadata.

But you can also work with the Xrm.Page model - for example, if you have a web resource and if you wanted to get all the options for a particular option set which has been added to the form, you can access that option set through Xrm.Page

In the web resource, it will likely be

window.parent.Xrm

rather than just Xrm.. but, in the end, there is a bunch of methods you can use, including getOptions:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg334409.aspx

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Thank you for your response.

So I imagined somthing like :

function getOptionsetLabel() { var OptionSetName = Xrm.Page.getAttribute(optionsetLabel).getOptions(); for(var intCounter=0; intCounter < OptionSetName.getOptions().length; intCounter++) { var backendtext=OptionSetControl.getOptions()[intCounter].text; var select = document.getElementById("selectForm"); select.options[select.options.length] = new Option(backendtext); } }

my option set name is stored in "optionsetLabel" am I right ? because this code is not working as i would like.

- I don't understand your "window.parent.xrm" shoud I remplace "xrm" by "window.arent.xrm" ?

- Other question : I never use "XMLHttpRequest" in my code. Am I obliged to use it ?

thanks a lot !

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Nithya Gopinath 17,078 on at

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Hi,

Instead of OptionSetName.getOptions().length, use just OptionSetName.length. Also replace Xrm with window.parent.Xrm.

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi Carnatik,

are you getting any errors in your code? What is that optionsetLabel - is it a variable defined somewhere? Basically, if the name of your attribute were "new_optionsetattributename", that line would look like this:

var OptionSetName = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_optionsetattributename").getOptions();

Xrm vs window.parent.Xrm: it depends on what you are doing. Originally, I thought you are using an HTML web resource, in which case you have to use window.parent.Xrm (since Xrm is not defined directlty in the web resource iframe - it's defined in the parent). If, on the other hand, it's a javascript web resoure then no, you don't need to use "window.parent"

As for the XMLHttpRequest - you have to use it if you need your script to talk to the server (that's for WebAPI, for example)

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