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Start dialog from javascript when new entity is creating and pass data to the response

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Posted on by Sergey Dorofeev 360

I have a dialog process. As I know I can start dialog only when one of record selected. Besides I try to run dialog from javascript and if I open one of record it works fine. here is my javascript code snippet

var url = "http://"+ window.location.host + parent.Xrm.Page.context.prependOrgName("/cs/dialog/rundialog.aspx?DialogId={" + dialogId +"}&EntityName=" + entityName + "&ObjectId=" + entityId);

url = encodeURI(url);
window.open(url);

but if I try to open dialog from javascript when a new record is being creating, I have an error "Dialog warning". Can I start dialog when creating a new record?

And how can I pass a value from javascript to dialog response?

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    jlattimer 24,562 on at

    I'm not sure you'll be able to do this like you are planning. When you are first creating a record - you haven't actually saved it yet and have not generated the ID for the record. I could see when you would get an error because in your code - entityId should be null if you are launching prior to saving the record.

    You won't be able to send a value from JavaScript to the Dialog - there isn't any supported mechanism to handle this.

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    Sergey Dorofeev 360 on at

    OK, that's clear. But probably you know any plugin which could help me?

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    Stumbled across this while I was working on something similar and thought I'd share my findings. In my case, I was wanting to run a dialog triggered by an onChange event for a non-required field in the form. I knew some of my users would not save before changing that field so I added a save function and a timeout function for the dialog after the save event. Here's an example of my code. For this to work, you still would need the users to fill out all required fields before triggering the event. I have a business rule to lock the trigger field until all required fields are filled out.

    If you have required fields that may not be filled out at the time you want the dialog to open, then this method will not answer your question unfortunately. In my case, the dialog was to create a different type of record so it was fine to force my users to fill out as much information as needed on the current form. The only shot you'd have if users are not filling information out ahead of time would be to plug in temporary values into all required fields, save the record, run the dialog, and at some point have your users update the information in that form that is filled with temp values.

    function runDialog(){

    var dialogID = "dialogGUID";

    var entityName = "new_entityName";

    if(Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_requiredField").getValue() != null && Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_otherRequiredField").getValue() != null) {

    Xrm.Page.data.entity.save();

    var time = 2000;

    setTimeout(

    function () {

    var objectID = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();

    var url = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/cs/dialog/rundialog.aspx?DialogId=%7b" + dialogID + "%7d&EntityName=" + entityName + "&ObjectId=" + objectID;

    window.open(url,"","height=600,width=600");

    },

    time

    );

    }

    }

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