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HI,

I am trying to implement the solution provided in the below link for cloning the records.

http://www.magnetismsolutions.com/blog/roshanmehta/2012/01/11/Cloning_Records_in_Microsoft_Dynamics_CRM_2011.aspx

But I am not sure what is etc and createformId. Can someone please point me in right direction.

Is 'CreateFormId' the id of the cloned record? And why should the etc be dynamic? Cloning a same entity still needs a new etc?

Please guide me. thanks.

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Hello,

etc= It's entity code, that can change based on the number of entity while deploying your solution from one environment to another, so instead of etc you should use etn which means entity name so for example account it will be etn=account

And it seems _CreateFromId = Is the source record id, that you want to clone.

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Okay thanks. But a blank form gets opened when 'Clone' button is clicked.

I gave the etn as incident and createformId as the id of the parent record using Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId()

This is the url:

serverUrl+"/main.aspx?etn=incident&extraqs=%3f_CreateFromId="+id+"&pagetype=entityrecord", "_blank", features, false

I don't understand how the field's data is passed through this url! Please help me.

Thanks.

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Data will be passed based on the self relationship and mapping that you might have created ?? based on the post. Have you done mapping ???

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anilambadan 1,160 on at

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Have you done the field mapping as per the link? Data will be copied through the mappings.

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crmprogrammer2013 2,665 on at

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Yes, I've done mapping. When I click the 'Add new Case' from the associated view.. it opens a new form with mapped fields. But the url from web resource is opening a blank form.

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anilambadan 1,160 on at

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Please try to compare the url of the new record when you are clicking on 'Add new Case' and the one from the clone record link.

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crmprogrammer2013 2,665 on at

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The 'Add new Case' record url contains a histkey which seems to be dynamic.. so I omitted it. Is that something mandatory in the url?

Thanks.

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anilambadan 1,160 on at

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I just checked the implementation mentioned in the link (on crm 2011) and its working fine. Please try to use encodeURI(uri)

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Aileen Gusni 44,524 on at

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Roxanna,

Please help to copy url you get from your custom code.

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crmprogrammer2013 2,665 on at

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Aileen,

It generates this url.

[View:https://xxxxx/main.aspx?pagetype=entityrecord&etn=incident&_CreateFromId=&#123:550:50];5A59ADAD-A134-E511-80CF-18A99B144330}&_CreateFromType=112#22035392

And it opens a blank form.

This is the script I have:

function Clone() { debugger; var serverUrl=Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl(); var id =Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId(); URL=serverUrl+"/main.aspx?pagetype=entityrecord&etn=incident&_CreateFromId=" +id+"&_CreateFromType=112"; //Set features for how the window will appear. var features = "location=no,menubar=no,status=no,toolbar=no,resizable=1"; // Open the window. //window.open(URL+"/main.aspx?etn=incident&extraqs=?_CreateFromId={"+id+"}); window.open(URL, "_blank", features, false); }

Thanks.

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