MSCRM - Finding an entity type code

Steve — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Microsoft have a naming convention for entity codes which you can find on the net

However what if you want to find out a code for a custom entity?

This is the simple solution I use.

Goto Settings > Customization and choose your entity
Click Forms and Views and double click on the main form
Click Form Properties > On Load Event and then click edit
Paste the following code into the text area alert("type code: " + crmForm.ObjectTypeCode);
Tick the Event is enabled tickbox and click OK and on the next screen OK again.
On the top menu select Preview > Create Form
Now you get a nice popup box with your entity type code
Make sure you quit without saving.

text box input to 'live' text output

Steve — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:12:00 GMT

I recently saw his post on my favourite if rather geeky forums.

thought id just wack the answer on here since its simple but yet if you don't know the answer its not.

" i hope i can explain what i am after with this,

I want a text box on the web page that a user types numbers into, i can do this in most cases,

I then want some maths done with this number, not to difficult in most cases,

This is where i fall down

rather than the result being fed some where on the click of a button or some thing similar, i want an instant live display next to the text box,
So as the user types a result is appearing next to the box.

For example if the maths that have to be done are 'user number' + 5
and the user is going to type 15, once they type 1, then 6 will appear in the space next to the box, and then as they type the 5 for the 15 it changes the output to 20.

I have seen this sort of thing in use a few places but have no idea how it is done"

well theres 2 realistic ways of doing this one is using ajax and doing the mathematics server side.The other simplest method is to use javascript.

The following method in my opinion is the easiest way to do this though it is intentionally basic it could be tidied up to be useful..

copy paste into the head of document

<script language=javascript type="text/javascript">
function calculate()
{
document.all.box2.value = parseInt(document.all.box1.value) + 5;
}
</script>

copy paste into the main area of the page

<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<input id="box1" onkeyup="calculate()"/>
<input id="box2" />

</div>
</form>

hopefully this will help point anybody else that wants to do this in the right direction.

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MSCRM - Finding an entity type code

text box input to 'live' text output