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How to set background colour and remove border of a field in CRM 2011 using JavaScript. The following function can be used to set the background colour and remove border of a field. function setBgColorandRemoveBorder(){     //Hide border of field in CRM 2011.     document.getElementById("fieldName").style.border="0px";     //Set background colour of text field in CRM 2011.     document.getElementById("fieldName").style.backgroundColor = "#f6f8fa"; } How to remove a Picklist Item using javascript? The following function can be used to remove a picklist item with a particular text from an OptionSet. function hideItemFromPiclist(fieldName, textValue){     var picklist = document.getElementById("fieldName");         for(var i = picklist.options.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){           ...

How to Show/Hide field in CRM 2011 Using Javascript function? The following code can be helpful to Show/Hide field in CRM 2011 Using Javascript function.  function HideShowField(){     //Hide the field.     Xrm.Page.ui.controls.get("fieldName").setVisible(false);           //Show the field.     Xrm.Page.ui.controls.get("fieldName").setVisible(true);  } How to make Disable/Not Disable field in CRM 2011 using Javascript function? The following code can be helpful to make Disable/Not Disable field in CRM 2011 Using Javascript function. function SetDisableField(){        var field = Xrm.Page.getControl("fieldName");        // if field is available on the form then make disable of the field.        if(field){         ...

If we want to retrieve data of a lookup field of parent form in a child form lookup field then we can use very easy javascript code without fetch xml in CRM 2011.   Let your parent form entity be Case(Incident) in which we need to retrieve a field name Customer of type   lookup (Having two types of values i.e. contact and account) in this lookup field.   The child  entity name casetask   having 1:N relationship(Case to Case task) and  Casetask entity has a lookup field of  Customer Contact in Casetask form so we can retrieve the custtomer data which is filled in Case entity(Customer field)  in the Casetask entity (Customer Contact  field )   So we can use  following  javascript code.   Define the function SETVALUE() function SETVALUE() {   if (Xrm.Page.ui.getFormType() == 1)  //Check if  form is in create mode   {     var oType =crmForm.ObjectTypeC ...

Hi Guys, It is a pleasant surprise to start using CRM 2011, if you are coming from from MS CRM 4.0 where you have to write a lot of code to get the filtered lookup working. Now CRM 2011 provides filtered lookups out of box. I was really excited after using them so though of sharing them with all of you. Follow the steps below to get filtering on the lookup

Last night I spent couple of hours trying to debug a JQuery code in MS CRM 2011 which was not working as expected. After debugging I realized that JQuery native support is not available in microsoft CRM 2011. This was the exact reason why the Javascript was unable to recognize ‘$’ symbol and ribbion stopped showing on CRM 2011 page.  The easiest way to get this working is by creating a web resource and adding Jquery min file to it.

Many of my clients have been asking why they should move from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011?