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How to pass Execution Context to JavaScript function called from HTML resource?

Hello all,

Xrm.Page is being deprecated and Microsoft has announced 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."

It is not clear to me what happens when you have HTML resources, which call JS functions. How can I pass the Execution Context in those functions, when I do not have the context in the HTML file?

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Transactions</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />

<script src="">ajax.googleapis.com/.../script>
<script src="">code.jquery.com/.../script>
<script src="ClientGlobalContext.js.aspx" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../WebResources/la_datatables.min.js"></script>
<link href="../WebResources/la_datatables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="">ajax.googleapis.com/.../jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../WebResources/gas_RestHelper.js"></script>

$(document).ready(function () {

$('#loading').hide();
try {
var crmForm = window.parent.Alert.getCrmWindow();

if (crmForm) {
crmForm.myLibrary_library.getExampleButtonClick(); //I need the Execution Context to be passed in this function
}

...

Thank you

Hi Dadele

I'm working for a project with a custom HTML page in a model driven app and after several research on web I have come to the conclusion that is actually impossible to interact with the Dataverse "directly". The only way was to use window.parent or window.xrm, i don't remember the exactly syntax, but it's been deprecated. Even your ClientGlobalContext.js.aspx seems become useless:

dynamics-chronicles.com/.../clientglobalcontextjsaspx-deprecated-dynamics-365-how-replace

So i resolve my issue using the Microsoft web API. in your case you have to handle the button click event in vanilla js and than make an API operation to the dataverse.

Here some useful documentation:

docs.microsoft.com/.../overview

docs.microsoft.com/.../compose-http-requests-handle-errors

I hope this can help you :)

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