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URL formatting

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Posted on by bpr_admin

Is there a way to reformat the URL in a supported way? (is sustained through updates/upgrading)

We use FQDNs internally, and we have a desktop application that watches the URL so that it can present information to the user.

Our current CRM2016 url looks like this:

https://crm.ad.contoso.org/contoso/main.aspx#48305616

that is for a contact, If I change to another contact, the whole number changes, if I switch to a screen from a different entity, the and look at the records in there, the URL stays the same, except for the number. How can we make the URL show contextual information, an example of the above url changing that would be more useful to use would be:

https://crm.ad.contoso.org/contoso/contact/main.aspx#48305616

or even this would be better:

https://crm.ad.contoso.org/contoso/contact/48305616

Any insight on this?

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    Nick.Doelman Profile Picture
    Nick.Doelman 1,947 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: URL formatting

    Older versions of Dynamics CRM had more "readible" URLs, this changed around CRM 2013, I think.

    If you want a full URL, you can click on the "Email A Link" button on a record to get a format that will navigate a user back to the particular record and form.  That format will use the Form and Record GUIDs of the particular record, it will look like this:

    https://<<yourORG>>.crm.dynamics.com/main.aspx?etc=2&extraqs=formid%<<Form GUID>>&id=<<record GUID>>&pagetype=entityrecord>

    Hope that helps.

    Cheers

    Nick

  • bpr_admin Profile Picture
    bpr_admin on at
    RE: URL formatting

    Also, how can the number be the session ID if it changes with every page I go to?

  • bpr_admin Profile Picture
    bpr_admin on at
    RE: URL formatting

    What's strange is our vendor for the 3rd party application said that last week, the URLs were totally different and had the entity name somewhere in the URL. Are there different URL formats for CRM?

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    Bas van de Sande Profile Picture
    Bas van de Sande 4,383 on at
    RE: URL formatting

    Hi,

    I'm afraid that this is not possible. The Id passed behing the # is some sort of session id that is following you thoughout the session. If you logon from a different computer and visit the same contact the id will be different.

    I hope this helps you forward

    Bas

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