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Form Switching in the Unified Interface

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Hi everyone, I have been given the unenviable task of shifting all our pre-existing Dynamics365 forms and entities over to the new UI. I have a query.

The previous developer has used a Javascript to change the form that is displayed based on the value in a field, obviously this doesn't work in the UI as the javascript object model has been changed again. Does anyone have a link they can share to a blog post or documentation that I could use to get this script working under the UI? (I am not a programmer but I can do basic Javascript customisation for Dynamics).

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RE: Form Switching in the Unified Interface

Hello,

To help you with UX transition, I also recommend this deck to you: Unified Interface Playbook - Chapter 3: Transition
Most developments should keep working in the Unified Interface after the transition if supported methods were used.

Now in terms of opening a specific form for a record, there are several methods that are available:

formContext.ui.formSelector (Client API reference)

navigateTo (Client API reference)

The first one seems more appropriate in your case, as you are already in form context.

A simple example to navigate to the default "Account" form:

formContext.ui.formSelector.items.get("8448b78f-8f42-454e-8e2a-f8196b0419af").navigate();

Henry

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UberMunchkin 10 on at

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RE: Form Switching in the Unified Interface

Hi, thanks for responding.

I don't see how this is going to work though. The existing script that I am trying to fix uses the Form Names and a Case Statement, as far as I can tell this is the important part that should be doing the form changing.

lblForm is equal to the Name of the form set in a CASE statement, based on the value in a 'Customer Type' field.

I do not have GUIDS for these forms and there are a lot of forms on this entity.

if (Xrm.Page.ui.formSelector.getCurrentItem().getLabel() != lblForm) {

var items = Xrm.Page.ui.formSelector.items.get(); //Get list of available forms from selector.

for (var i in items) { //Loop through the above list looking for the match.

var item = items[i];

var itemId = item.getId();

var itemLabel = item.getLabel()

if (itemLabel == lblForm) { //If the label matches then navigate to that form.

//navigate to the form

item.navigate();

} //endif

} //end for

} //endif

I don't see a way to convert this to something that will work under the unified interface though.

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RE: Form Switching in the Unified Interface

As far as I can see, this piece of code should work in the Unified Interface.
The only point of attention I see is that even though it's still working, Xrm.Page has been deprecated. You should use the formContext instead.

Can you tell us more about the error message?
Also the code you shared doesn't tell how you define lblForm, maybe this is something you should investigate.

Henry

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UberMunchkin 10 on at

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RE: Form Switching in the Unified Interface

It just doesn't work, no errors are thrown but changing the value in the field on the form does not trigger the form to change.

The lblForm variable is set inside a CASE statement:

switch (relType) {

case 100000000: //Business Contact

lblForm = "AI for Sales";

break;

case 100000001: //Emergency Contact

lblForm = "Emergency Contact";

break;

case 100000002: //Staff Contact

lblForm = "Staff Form";

break;

case 100000003: //Primary Contact

lblForm = "Contact";

break;

case 100000005: //Enquirer

lblForm = "Enquirer";

break;

default:

lblForm = "AI for Sales";

}

The relType variable that the switch runs on is set to equal the value in the on form optionset field that defines the record type.

Thank you for your assistance, I've not got a great deal of experience with Javascript under the new interface and I'm finding it very hard to find solutions for things that used to be very simple under the previous model.

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RE: Form Switching in the Unified Interface

Thanks for the details

I still don't really see why this isn't working, and I don't find that client-side scripting has changed that much with the Unified Interface.
On the contrary, I find it even more powerful with more support methods.

To help you properly troubleshoot this, I advise that you open a Support Request here: https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/support

Henry

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