Add a Button on Entity Main Form in MS Dynamics CRM 2016 And It will run Console Application

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My Requirement : I need to add a button on the Entity Main Form and It is used to run a console application when the User is clicks a Button on the form whenever is needed.

Is it possible to implement in Dynamics CRM 2016 ?

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haresh

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imayur 630 on at

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Where actual console application is? on client side or on server?

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What is the purpose of the console application? Is it something that can be done in any other way (Possibly plugin)?

It is not really the recommended approach.

Basically what you can do is have a button call a custom action (via JavaScript and you can use process.js).

The action can then do the requirements that you have including calling a Console Application (which would have to reside on the same server as the CRM Server).

I would stay away from this logic if possible, and try if you can do this using Server side code within CRM.

Hope this helps.

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Looks like a terrible design decision, please share a full requirement that you have, because I believe that you are trying to solve some problem using wrong tools

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Why you want to run console? What is the purpose of the console application?Where console application is. I mean server side or Client side.

I think it is not a good solution design. you can look alternate ways through custom coding. let me know your requirement

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My requirement is to generate the custom XML file with CRM fields data. and then It will update the field values if generated XML successfully when A user clicks on Button.

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You can use custom workflow Activity or custom Action for this. you can call workflow/Action through JavaScript on button click.

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for this requirement

Approach 1

Retrieve all the required fields on form to generate XML.

Generate XML document using javascript. There are several ways to do it, Here is one

Manipulate the generated XML document, probably convert it to string and do the desired operation

Approach 2

Create field on form to save generated XML.

Create a custom workflow activity(on Demand) which generates XML and update the generated xml on form field.

Create action which calls the Custom workflow

Add button on Ribbon and call action on it.

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