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Editing FormXML programmatically

Hey everyone,

I'm currently in the progress of creating a Dynamics CRM toolset for easing translation of customizations (You can find it here: https://github.com/DigitalFlow/Xrm-Easy-Translation).

There is already support for translating attributes and option set values, which also works great at this point.

Now I'm trying to add translations in forms as well and am already done retrieving the systemform record using the WebApi, adding translations in the FormXML and saving the updated systemform again.

The update request executes without errors, however only existing labels that I edited are being updated, new ones are not being added as they should.

My question is: Has anyone of you ever did something like this and knows the reason, why my update request containing the updated form does only update existing labels?

Kind Regards,

Florian

Edit: So, as it turns out, the labels are updated as I wanted in the CRM.

But when retrieving the updated FormXML, the CRM only returns the labels for the current UI language.

This is a quite unhandy design limitation unfortunately, even because the labels would contain the language code which they were intended for.

I might try switching through all user languages when retrieving the form and intersecting them...

Please have a look at my edit in the question, the CRM does only return the labels for the current language when retrieving the formXML unfortunately.

Fortunately the labels are updated in a merged style, so imagine having language packs for 1031 and 1033 in your organization.

When requesting the formXml, you will without intersecting multiple requests only get labels for your current language 1031 / 1033, even if both languages have labels for this form.

Luckily, if you're on the 1033 UI and edit the label for 1033, only this label will be changed, other ones (for other LCIDs) will remain untouched, even if your updated formXml only contains the one label for your current language. If sending new values for 1031 and 1033, both updates will be processed.

Each cell / section / tab has a labelId, so my guess is that this and the language code of the labels are their primary key.

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