Refresh form when status changes

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I would like to invoke some sort of custom action, plugin, script or workflow to refresh a form whenever the statuscode field changes.

We have buttons in the ribbon that perform a few changes in our records, including change of status (statuscode). As of now we need to refresh the form to see the changes, at the beginning this was not a big deal, but now users are starting to complain about it.

I would like to know if there is anything out there I could use to refresh the form, but it needs to be triggered after the workflow has been successfully finished.

Any help is appreciated.

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RE: Refresh form when status changes

I have tried your code but it does not trigger when a workflow changes the record.

If I manually update a field, the script loads, but when I just use my buttons in top ribbon, nothing happens and I need to refresh the form to see the changes.

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RE: Refresh form when status changes

Hi Lucas,

There is no need to invoke Server Side Code (Plugin/Action) to refresh a form. Those processes execute on the server side and cannot cause a page to refresh.

In order to refresh a page you need to use a client side process, basically using JavaScript.

The best approach as Goutam specified is using the Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm and passing the entity name and the entity id for that process. You can also use window.location.reload(true); to refresh the page from server side, which I have seen to work most of the times, but had some issues with it in the past.

I have used the following to reload an existing form (my feeling best approach):

function reloadPage()

{

var recordId = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();

var entityName = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName();

Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm(entityName, recordId);

}

Hope this helps.

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Shidin Haridas 3,497 on at

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RE: Refresh form when status changes

Use the code that Goutam suggested on change of the 'modifiedon' field.

This would ensure that a new window is opened once the record save has gone through :)

But consider doing a fields only refresh instead of loading the entire form, for the obvious performance concerns.

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gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

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RE: Refresh form when status changes

Hi Lucas ,

I pretty much sure you know about that -

msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj602956.aspx

var EntityId =Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();

var EntityName = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName();

Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm( EntityName ,EntityId );

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