How to get Parent Entity Logical Name

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Hi all,

I have two Entities A and B. In A entity I have a lookup of B. Now I am opening B Entity Form from A(Both QC and Main form). Now I want parent entity logical name from Entity B. I mean how can I get from which Entity I am opening current form.

I already used window.top.opener.parent.Xrm, window.top.opener.Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get() etc. Nothing is working for me.

Please suggest me how can I get this using Javascript?

Thanks in Advance.

Shiva

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sandeepstw 4,601 on at

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Hi Shivaram,

Review these articles might help you:

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

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

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Sandeep

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tpeschat 4,930 on at

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Hi,

maybe this article will help:

www.c5insight.com/.../use-javascript-with-parent-entity-forms-to-update-and-retrieve-dynamics-crm-records.aspx

Thomas

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Conor Gallagher 715 on at

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Hi Shiva,

So, just to clarify a few things first as the use of the terms Entity A and B is confusing me. Let's call them account (Entity B) and contact (Entity A) just for the sake of your example.

You have 2 entities, Contact and Account. On the Contact entity you have a lookup to Account.

Next, you are opening up the Account form (i.e. trying to create an account?) from the context of an existing contact...By this do you mean clicking on the Lookup button and then clicking on the "+new" button available in the lookup dropdown? If this is correct then the following used to work... but as you probably found no longer does:

window.top.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName()

For some reason in 2016 the data on Page is returned as null. I guess they've changed how you get this in 2016, I'll need to go investigate how you get it these days.

On the other hand, do you mean accessing entities the other way round? I.e. You are on the account form -> and on the account you have the contact grid open? From there you are clicking on the + (add new contact) button. From here you could use the out of the box attribute mapping. By default CRM will have populate the account lookup so you can grab the entity type from that lookup attribute.

If you can clarify the above then I can do a bit more digging for you.

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Conor Gallagher 715 on at

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Actually, figured it out. If you are using CRM 2016 this seems to be the new way to get the parent context:

window.top.opener.frames[0].Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName()

Let me know how you get on with that.

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shivaram 3,315 on at

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Hi Conor, Thanks for your reply. You are correct, data is giving null value there in 2015 also. And some where in this community, I read that 'opener' will work only if you are try to create entity in new window. So I disabled +new button On lookup. But the problem is, while selecting lookup field, we are having one link "lookup more records". There again we are having New button. So from there I am trying to create account entity.

I will try this answer. And probably I can test that on Monday. Hope it helps me. Thanks buddy.

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shivaram 3,315 on at

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Hi Conor,

No luck. :( . It is giving null reference only. I am using 2015.

window.top.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName()

In this script, window.top.opener.parent.Xrm.Page.data is null

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tpeschat 4,930 on at

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Hi,

this should be possible with Xrm.Page.context.getQueryStringParameters();

(pType, partyid, partyname) ...

cvanochten.wordpress.com/.../hello-world

Hth Thomas

No, it isn't... just tried it out myself. Sorry

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shivaram 3,315 on at

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Its Okay Thomas.Thanks for reply. I tried links which were provided by you, but unfortunately it is not working.

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Hello,

You can try below code:

window.top.frames.parent.frames[0].Xrm.Page.getAttribute("name").getValue()

// JavaScript source code

function onLoad()
{

alert( window.top.frames.parent.frames[0].Xrm.Page.getAttribute("name").getValue());
}

Thanks,

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Conor Gallagher 715 on at

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Just to confirm, have you tried your code with the frames[0] as per my second message above?

window.top.opener.frames[0].Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName()

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