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How do I get the parent id in Unified Interface mode?

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Posted on by Chevva 95

In a legacy web environment, I previously used javascript to get the parent ID from the querystring, i.e.

            var queryString = window.parent.Xrm.Page.context.getQueryStringParameters();
            parentRecordId = queryString._CreateFromId;

How do I achieve the same in Unified Interface mode?

Thanks in advance.

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    Gilmeyer Profile Picture
    Gilmeyer Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi ,

    Xrm.Page.context.getQueryStringParameters method is deprecated in Dynamics CRM365 v9. Please use formContext.data.attributes instead.

    Refer to docs.microsoft.com/.../important-changes-coming

    Hope it helps.

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    Chevva 95 on at

    The problem is that the javascript that attempts to get the parentid is located in an HTML webresource.

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    a33ik Profile Picture
    a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hello,

    If it's located in HTML webresource you can use 2 approaches:

    1. Pass it through URL of the webresource (build it on the fly passing Id as a part of URL using data parameter).

    2. Use window.parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("fieldthatreferencesparententity).getValue() in your HTML webresource.

  • Chevva Profile Picture
    Chevva 95 on at

    Hi,

    It appears that for webresources, the following still works in UI mode:

               var queryString = window.parent.Xrm.Page.context.getQueryStringParameters();

               parentRecordId = queryString.parentrecordid;

    This article docs.microsoft.com/.../important-changes-coming states that "Although Xrm.Page is deprecated, parent.Xrm.Page will continue to work in case of HTML web resources embedded in forms as this is the only way to access the form context from the HTML web resource."

    So, it may be (many?) years before Xrm.Page is truly deprecated for webresources. If, as MS state, "...this is the only way to access the form context" I assume they will come up with an alternative...

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