How to: setFormDirty method question.

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Posted on by Alex.P

Hi,

I'm trying to understand how setFormDirty method works. Didn't find description of it in SDK, got couple samples from internet, but still not clear. What I'm trying to achieve: I want to mark form like it has some Unsaved Changes.

function SomeFunction()
{
       alert(Xrm.Page.data.entity.getIsDirty());
        Xrm.Page.data.setFormDirty(true);
       alert(Xrm.Page.data.entity.getIsDirty());
}

In both alerts I'm getting False. Looks like I'm using setFromDirty method in a wrong way. If so, any other suggestion?

Or the only way it's to change some field on the form, so it will be marked for AutoSave?

Thanks in advance.

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Karth on at

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Try using Xrm.Page.data.setFormDirty() instead of Xrm.Page.data.setFormDirty(true);

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Alex.P 68 on at

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Thanks for reply Karth, but it's not working as well.

To be more clear - I'm talking about text at the bottom of the form:

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Any other ideas? Thanks.

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As Alex's graphic above shows, is there any way to trigger the unsaved changes prompt in the lower right of the page? I've tried Xrm.Page.data.setFormDirty() and Xrm.Page.data.setFormDirty(true) without success on Crm Online.

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Hello Alex,

I'm trying to figure out why you are trying to set de form dirty, if you can tell us why, we can provide you an alternative,

Regards.

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Hi Arjay248,

I don't believe we have any method setFormDirty available to use under Xrm.Page.data. The only methods available are save & referesh-

msdn.microsoft.com/.../dn481607.aspx

Also, if you check the description of Xrm.Page.data.entity.getIsDirty() , it will check if there is any field which is dirty.

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg334720.aspx

So I would say to achieve this, you need to set some field (it could be any field) as dirty using setSubmitMode

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

Hope this helps.

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Thanks for all the replies. I had seen setFormDirty in existing client code in the project I'm working on and assumed it was still supported (I believe the code base I'm working on was a port of the on-premises version). At any rate, I'm a bit surprised that the setFormMethod is still is part of the Xrm but is a noop. At any rate, my problem is that I have a subgrid on a page with some custom js that displays checkboxes in a column (yeah, I know about unsupported client side scripting, but work still needs to get done), When a user clicks on the column, I want the user to be prompted to save so that a plugin gets triggered on the page with the subgrid and processes the subgrid record changes. Using the setSubmitMode, I was able to get the plugin to trigger when the subgrid checkboxes were changed.

Thanks all.

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Hi,

Glad it worked for you. Please close the thread by marking it as helpful/verrified.

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