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XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

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Posted on by Santosh Kulkarni 235

Hi Friends,

For your understanding, I have solution and added configuration.html web resource to configuration section of  solution.

What i am trying?

Using Xrm.WeApi library to retrive and create records in dynamics crm entity.

When i execute below code i get error in script. error :""Cannot read property 'account'  of null"

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Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords("account", "?$select=name&$top=3").then( function success(result) { for (var i = 0; i < result.entities.length; i++) { console.log(result.entities[i]); } // perform additional operations on retrieved records }, function (error) { console.log(error.message); // handle error conditions } ); 

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Also it works if my HTML resource is inside entity form but not working in solution configuration section.

did you face the same issue?Any solution? how to use xrm.webapi in this case ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Santosh

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  • Suggested answer
    Arun Vinoth Profile Picture
    Arun Vinoth 11,615 Moderator on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    Basically window.opener.top.ENTITY_SET_NAMES should work like I explained in StackOverflow.

    [View:https://stackoverflow.com/a/51525742/7920473]

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    HenriL Profile Picture
    HenriL 485 on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    My colleague participated in that thread of stackoverflow. I am using his workaround for now that I think its simple and easy, until Microsoft fixes the issue.

    Basically, the webapi looks for constants that are retrieved by one of CRM main webpages. Simply supplying the constants will allow the Xrm.WebApi to work.

    For each entity:

    a. specifies its Set Name, eg. account = accounts, contact = contacts, new_custom = new_customs

    b. specifies its Primary Key, eg. account = accountid, contact = contactid, new_custom = new_customid

    function prepareCrmConstants() {

           window["ENTITY_SET_NAMES"] = window["ENTITY_SET_NAMES"] || JSON.stringify({

               "contact": "contacts"

           });

           window["ENTITY_PRIMARY_KEYS"] = window["ENTITY_PRIMARY_KEYS"] || JSON.stringify({

               "contact": "contactid",

           });

       };

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    Pawar Pravin Profile Picture
    Pawar Pravin 5,237 on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    Hi Santosh,

    Please do refer following urls:

    www.toplinestrategies.com/.../crm-rest-builder-useful-tool-working-crm-2016%E2%80%99s-web-api

    stackoverflow.com/.../using-xrm-webapi-method-in-web-resource-opened-in-a-new-window

  • HarryZang Profile Picture
    HarryZang 240 on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    I am facing the same issue before:

    https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/283353

    The parent.Xrm trick also does not work 

    Instead, I have to use the httprequest code.

    something like:

    var query = "EntityDefinitions?$select=ObjectTypeCode&$filter=LogicalName eq '" + eName + "'";
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    req.open("GET", Util.getWebAPIEndpoint() + query, false);

    req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
    req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
    req.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
    req.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
    req.send();
    var object = JSON.parse(req.responseText);

  • HenriL Profile Picture
    HenriL 485 on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    Yep, I am getting the same error. The Xrm.WebApi library is not working on custom HTML webresource, but works on entity Forms only (at least). Its either a bug or the CRM Dev team hasn't implemented it yet.

  • Santosh Kulkarni Profile Picture
    Santosh Kulkarni 235 on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    Thanks Manju for reply,

    I tried using parent.XRM, but same error...

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    Manju Augustine Profile Picture
    Manju Augustine 140 on at
    RE: XRM.WEBAPI not working in crm solution configuration.html web resource

    Hi,

    Can you please debug the code and check if Xrm is defined or not when you call it from the Configuration Page. If Xrm is not defined, try using parent.Xrm.

    Thanks,

    Manju Augustine.

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