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How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

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Hi All,

We have a requirement to create a contact with information provided in the Contact Us form in the portal connected to our CRM. As, I am new to this Portal, not sure how to proceed. Please help me with the procedure or information.

Thank You,

Krishna

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  • SaiKrishnaGudluru Profile Picture
    SaiKrishnaGudluru 108 on at
    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    Hi Birgit, what you mentioned is correct. As OOB feature, when an user submits "Contact Us" form on portal, it will create a lead in CRM, which is expected, as that new user would be a lead rather a contact in general sense. But, as per my knowledge we cannot send invitations to a Lead, that's why we do create a separate form like "request access"/"contact"/"contact us" to create a contact record into CRM and triggers an

    Email with an invitation code to that contact to register into Portal.

    <<Please correct me if I am missing any point>>

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    Please mark my answer as as verified if it worked. Thanks.

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    SaiKrishnaGudluru Profile Picture
    SaiKrishnaGudluru 108 on at
    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    Thank you Vikas. It worked.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    Create a new form or add a tab in an existing form which will contain all fields required. Create a new entity form for contact entity use the above mentioned form/tab. Use this entity form on the web page. This should allow you to add contacts in CRM.

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    Rahul-Waghmare Profile Picture
    Rahul-Waghmare 990 on at
    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    Hi Krishna,

    The simplest approach would be do write some code in your ASP.NET or C# to create the Contact record similar to the sample given in MSDN link.

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg328416.aspx

    Please mark the answer as verified if it helped you.

    Regards,

    Rahul

  • Birgit RD Profile Picture
    Birgit RD 2 on at
    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    We created a new web page with an entity form on contact. That way, the portal user enters directly a new contact. The original contact us form is not used in our portal.

    Any reason why you should use the existing form (which create a Lead if I remember correctly)

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    RE: How to create a contact into CRM from Portal

    First you need to learn about how to create a CRM record using the Organization Service in C#.

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg328416.aspx

    => You can get the sample code in the SDK, if you don't have please go and download

    Once you know that, you can then put the same piece of code in your portal for the "Submit" button action.

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