Link between ribbon button and web resource

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Hi all, I started to work with my current company as an apprentice developer and I am very new to the CRM world. I am developing an html page that needs to be opened upon the click of a ribbon button. The problem is that whenever I export the solution the link stays the same (eg the url of the webresource still points to my dev environment). How would I link the two without having to manually create the button every time I import this solution?

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Christian

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Daniel Wikell 2,360 on at

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Hi and welcome to the world of CRM!

One good practice when it comes to environment specific values like your URL is to create a custom entity "Configuration" or something similar. Within that entity you can add custom fields that corresponds to your various environment specific values. Since this is data in an entity, it won't be affected by solution imports and will thus be unique within each instance of CRM.

In your javascript code for the button you can then query CRM and retrieve the single configuration entity (you should probably only ever have one instance of this in each environment) and read the URL from the field value and use that instead of a hard coded value.

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Never thought of that, that's really helpful. Thank you!

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One more question, how would I retrieve the url from the new record? Do I need to use REST points?

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Alex Fun Wei Jie 33,628 on at

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you can use Java script to retrieve the environment url.

Take a look getServerUrl and getClientUrl ( based on your CRM Version)

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg334511(v=crm.5).aspx

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Yes, you need Rest endpoints to retrieve the value from the configuration entity. Assuming your entity name is Configuration and you have 2 fields i.e. name & value then you can use the below script to retrieve the record with the name as "AppURL"

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var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/api/data/v8.2/new_configurations?$select=new_configurationid,new_value&$filter=new_name eq 'AppURL'", true);
req.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
req.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
req.setRequestHeader("Prefer", "odata.include-annotations=\"*\",odata.maxpagesize=1");
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (this.readyState === 4) {
        req.onreadystatechange = null;
        if (this.status === 200) {
            var results = JSON.parse(this.response);
            for (var i = 0; i < results.value.length; i++) {

// Your value will be returned here.
                var new_value = results.value[i]["new_value"];
            }
        } else {
            Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(this.statusText);
        }
    }
};
req.send();

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URL:

xxxx.crm.dynamics.com/.../new_configurations$select=new_configurationid,new_value&$filter=new_name eq 'AppURL'

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