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Filtering the "from" lookup to show certain datatypes

I have also posted this question at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38176653/dynamics-crm-2016-edit-lookup-email-from-field

I am using Microsoft Dynamics 2016, and need to clean up the options in the from field of the default email form.

So the aim is to limit the results in the lookup for the email "from" field. By default it shows all companies, contacts etc. However, we will only be using queues and users in the "from" field.

How can I limit the lookup and search items to only use queues and users? It appears that this is derived from a party list, however, I can not find any information on editing a party list inputs.

I thought maybe https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334266.aspx#BKMK_addCustomFilterwould be an option, but can't work out how to feed the attribute types of queue (2020) and user (8) in to form the lookup.

Using some code from https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3b97a306-4df7-4128-a3a9-e516c46c565d/limit-customer-lookup-in-opportunity-to-accounts-only?forum=crmdevelopment I came up with the following code:

function setFromLookupOptions()
{
    document.getElementById("from").setAttribute("lookuptypes", "8,2020");
}

However, this code just brings up errors, saying it cant setAttributes of Null (indicating it can not find the "from" field, but that's what it's labelled in the form). I have also tried using "from_i" as per the note at the top of the first block of code at https://bernado-nguyen-hoan.com/2015/10/28/correcting-available-lookup-views-when-restricting-lookup-types-via-javascript-in-crm/ however, it can't seem to find an element with that name.

So how can I do this?

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