Alternative to window.top.opener after moving from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013

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In Dynamics 2011 forms came on as a popup, but in Dynamics CRM 2013, most forms are loaded within the page. So the usage of window.opener is not working in JavaScript. Is there an alternative to get the attributes of a parent form???

Previously we got data this way(Dynamics CRM 2013)..

if (window.top.opener)
{
try
{
 var parentXrm = window.top.opener.parent.Xrm; //Find parent Xrm
 if (parentXrm && parentXrm.Page && parentXrm.Page.data && parentXrm.Page.data.entity &&   parentXrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName() == Entities.Opportunity.LogicalName)
{
.
.
.
.
}
}
}

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Rajkumar Rajaraman on at

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Hi Sameen,

Take a look to the following links:

www.magnetismsolutions.com/.../access-microsoft-dynamics-crm-quick-view-form-attributes-using-javascript

msdynamicscrmblog.wordpress.com/.../javascript-references-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2013

Hope this helps.

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R.Rajkumar

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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You can write a service call to get parent entity information for child entity.

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Could you provide links on how I can do that? Thanks!

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Child entity will contain lookup for parent record, so you could get that parent entity record id and can use REST retrieve method to get details for parent entity basedon parent id.

You can look for this sample where you can pass your parent entity id and get your field from result set. Make sure to change entity name with your entity schema name

mahenderpal.wordpress.com/.../get-parent-customer-id-based-on-contact-id

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mscrmba on at

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What is the business requirement you're trying to meet?

If you're just needing to show the data then I'd go with Raj's suggestion and use a Quick View Form. They're really easy to make and are a fully supported solution.

You shouldn't need Jscript if you're just wanting to display data that is on the parent form.

Explaining / demonstrating what they can be used for:

blog.customereffective.com/.../crm-2013-quickstart-excerpt-dynamics-crm-quick-view-forms.html

The step by step instructions:

technet.microsoft.com/.../dn531126.aspx

Quick view forms are forms that can be "nested" onto other forms. For example the opportunity form can have a quick view of the account record - including key account information and the list of active contacts and opportunities for that account. CRM systems have always tried to provide a "360 degree view" of the customer. Quick view forms make that view visible without having to navigate to 3 different forms to see it.

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Waqar Sohail on at

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have you tried window.parent.opener?

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I guess I needed to explain more, I apologize for that. I'm trying to change the javascript function which is already implemented in the system(for each entity). I want to make a simple changes, without having to rewrite the whole code and make changes across the system, for the entities.

The job of the function is to automatically populates salesreps and commissions only if parent is Opportunity and Lock Values is not true. This should populate values for both new Orders and updating Orders as long as opened from the parent Opportunity. This is still part of the function that I want to change. All this is triggered during form load.

if (window.top.opener)
{
try
{
var parentXrm = window.top.opener.parent.Xrm; //Find parent Xrm
if (parentXrm && parentXrm.Page && parentXrm.Page.data && parentXrm.Page.data.entity && parentXrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName() == Entities.Opportunity.LogicalName)
{
if (Entities.New_vssorder.New_LockSalesReps.getValue() != true)
{
doing something;
}
}
}
}

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That's what I want to remove, since window.parent.opener doesn't exactly work in Dynamics CRM 2013, although it did in Dynamics 2011.

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Waqar Sohail on at

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it work in CRM 2013. have you tried?

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Thank You Waqar it does work. But the problem is that in some instances, instead of a new window, the form is redirected in the current window. Then window.parent.opener does not exist. If I could always open the forms in a new window, there wouldn't be any problems (as was the case in Dynamics 2011).

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