Friday 2 November 2012

Creating records in CRM 2011 using JavaScript

Using the CRM Web Service, you can create new entity records, just using JavaScript. The following code demonstrates this:
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// Make Struct
function MakeStruct(names) 
{
 var names = names.split(' ');
 var count = names.length;
 
 function constructor() {
  for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
   this[names[i]] = arguments[i];
  }
 }
 return constructor;
}
 
// CRM Field Struct
var CRMField = MakeStruct("SchemaName Value");
 
// Call Crm Service
function CallCrmService(soapBody, method)
{
 try 
 {
  var xmlHttpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
  xmlHttpRequest.Open("POST", "/mscrmservices/2007/CrmService.asmx", false);
  xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/" + method);
  xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
  var xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>" +
  "<soap:envelope xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd=
'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>" + GenerateAuthenticationHeader() + "<soap:body>" + soapBody + "</soap:body></soap:envelope>";
  xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", xml.length);
  xmlHttpRequest.send(xml);
 
  var resultXml = xmlHttpRequest.responseXML;
  var errorCount = resultXml.selectNodes('//error').length;
 
  if (errorCount != 0) 
  {
   var msg = resultXml.selectSingleNode('//description').nodeTypedValue;
   alert(msg);
 
   return null;
  }
 
  return resultXml;
 }
 catch(err) {
 }
 
 return null;
}
 
// Create Record
function CreateRecord(entityName, fields)
{
 try 
 {
  var resultArray = new Array();
  var attributesList = "";
 
  for(var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++)
  {
   attributesList += "<" + fields[i].SchemaName + ">" + fields[i].Value + "";
  }
 
  var xml = "<create xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices'><entity xsi:type='"+entityName+"'>" 
 + attributesList + "</entity></create>";
  var resultXml = CallCrmService(xml, 'Create');
 
  if (resultXml) 
  {
   var newid = resultXml.selectSingleNode('//CreateResult').nodeTypedValue;
   return newid;
  }
 }
 catch(err) {
 }
 
 return null;
}
 
// USE
// Create new Contact
function CreateContact()
{
 var fields = [new CRMField('firstname', 'Cornel'), new CRMField('lastname', 'Croitoriu')];
 return CreateRecord('contact', fields); // return new contact id
}
 
// Create new Annotation
function CreateAnnotation(parentEntityName, parentEntityId, title, text)
{
 var fields = [new CRMField('objecttypecode', parentEntityName), new CRMField('objectid', parentEntityId), new CRMField('subject', title),
  new CRMField('notetext', text), new CRMField('isdocument', false), new CRMField("mimetype", "text/html")];
 return CreateRecord('annotation', fields); // return new note id
}
 
// Example
CreateAnnotation('opportunity', 'FD140AAF-4DF4-11DD-BD17-0019B9312238', 'dynamic generated note', 'text goes here…');
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