Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

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I have a custom ribbon button on opportunity entity form. When user clicks on that an action is being called using Dynamics CRM Web API.

Action creates another record and then that record is being opened in new window.

When user clicks on the button , the command bar is greyed out until the action is executed and response is received.

I want to show an image or gif like Processing... till the time Action is being executed.

How can I do that?

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

Hi,

you might try alertjs:

github.com/.../Documentation

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Sanjaya Prakash Pra... 2,745 User Group Leader on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

The loader can be implemented on HTML Web resource or custom webpages using JQuery/AJAX not using CRM OOB methods.

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

So, is that not possible?

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

Hi,

Its not straight forward or OOB implementation. As suggested above, this can be done with custom implementation using JavaScript, Web Resource Web pages etc...

You can also use already built alert.js solution which has a method to show loading -

github.com/.../Documentation

I had similar requirements and in my case, I used the OOB notification "Processing started..." before starting the WEB API Call and then after the call a notification "Processing completed...". This approach is also used in PSA implementations

Hope this helps.

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

Did you call this from Command Bar? I tried and nothing showed up. I will try again this alertjs

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

I had a button in command bad which -

1. Display the notification that "Process started...."

2. Call the Custom Action

3. Display the notification that "Process completed..."

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Ramakanta 2,715 on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

@Ravi Is there any way can we change the text in Alertjs ,from " Loading" something like "Processing" ,i am using Alert.js v2.1 with Dynamics 365 v8.2

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

Hi RK,

You should be able to change the text in the base alert.js file. Here is the method for loading which can be changed-

Alert.showLoading = function (url) {

Alert.show("Loading...", null, [], "LOADING", 230, 115, url, true);

}

Hope this helps

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Ramakanta 2,715 on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

Thnaks Ravi...

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Ramakanta 2,715 on at

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RE: Showing Processing/Loading Icon when Action is being called

@Ravi ,I am able to call/see the loading message on button click,but when i add Alert.hide() function to hide my loading message after my operation completion,it's not working.

Below is my code,i am using Version 1612 (8.2.2.112) (DB 8.2.2.112) on-premise,In order ensure my opertion taking some time i am pausing my thread for 30 .If i am adding only

Alert.showLoading() then its showing me the message,but facing issue when i add the Alert.hide() function.Any help will be appreciated

function alertTest()

{

Alert.showLoading();

var actionName = "Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.getfrightrate";

var quoteId = firstPrimaryItemId.replace('{', '').replace('}', '');

var actionResponse = CallCustomAction(quoteId, actionName);//Opertion will take > 30sec

Alert.hide();

}

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