I've created an Outlook extended property for contacts with the REST API described here. This is the relevant JSON payload.
{
"singleValueExtendedProperties": [
{
"id":"String {b06defca-5b03-4ee3-ba80-c5c9f49bea8d} Name MyProp",
"value":"true"
}
]
}
This prop is successfully saved and returned if I request instance of contacts with this extension via REST API.
contacts?$filter=singleValueExtendedProperties/Any(ep: ep/id eq 'String {b06defca-5b03-4ee3-ba80-c5c9f49bea8d} Name MyProp' and ep/value eq 'true')
So far, so good.
But how can I show this extension within the Outlook application, e.g. in Outlook for Mac v16.15 ? I assume, that I can add such an extension as additional column in the list view of all contacts. There are always columns named 'Benutzerdefiniert 1' .. 'Benutzerdefiniert 8' (in english 'User defined'). But nothing. Also nowhere within the huge (and BTW very good) Microsoft Graph docs I found any hint linking from the MS Graph REST API into the Outlook app.
What is necessary to have visible custom Outlook properties managed by the MS Graph REST API ?
Kind regards
Dominik
have you tried using Outlook web addin?
You can create an outlook web addins in order to show the extension properties in outlook like this image below.
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I've been tasked with creating a workflow in Dynamics 365 which can send emails (the easy bit). However, the email has a link to the record (also easy using the Record URL(Dynamic) attribute). However, we use Apps in our Dynamics instance and the link generated by the workflow using Record URL(Dynamic) doesn't include the app id and so when users click the link they are taken to Dynamics but are now outside the app.
My question is, is there a supported way to appending the App Id to the Record URL(Dynamic) attribute?
I've already searched for answers to this and cant find any. My solution was to create an Action which takes as input the Record and app ID, appends them and outputs them as an output parameter. This works to be honest, but I'm wondering if I'm reinventing the wheel and there is an easier way to achieve this.
Thanks and hope this helps anyone else with the same issue.
We can get the Application ID from Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext();
The application ID is one of the properties that returned
var globalContext = Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext();
globalContext.getCurrentAppProperties().then(
function success(app) { console.log(app.appId); }, function errorCallback() { console.log("Error"); });
For more details refer to Here
While we are waiting for MS to give the OOB option to choose Model driven app Id & embed in Record url of WF, I recommend you to follow Andrew Butenko’s workaround using Ultimate Workflow Toolkit to achieve it with no code.
This is basically using UWT custom step to append App Id with Record url on the fly.
I am very new to MS Dynamics. I am using dynamics CRM 2016 and I need to remove, in the activities page, the views about entities that I am not using such as Campaign Response, Campaign Activity, etc.
I do not see them in the list of views of the Activity entity in my solution, so I cannot remove them from there, am I missing something? Is there a way to remove those views?
Its possible. I found the way to do it finally after just 3 days of research.
Open your CRM web in XRM Tool kit (download if not having it)
XRM toolkit access your org using url and login. Assuming you have privilege access.
Load all web resources and scroll down to find "activitypointer_ribbon_home.js"
Add below lines of code into the file,
finally Save and publish to make it available for all users. Whoa.. it works like charm !!!
hideactivitiesview() // call under onload of xrm page; comes in default script of this file
function hideactivitiesview()
{
var viewSelector = $('#crmGrid_SavedNewQuerySelector')[0];
if(viewSelector)
{
$(viewSelector).click(function(){
var _activity = $('#ViewSelector_activity')[0]; //get this id from DOM using F12
if(_activity)
$(_activity).hide();
});
}
}
Unfortunately you cannot hide/remove those.
Reason: They are not usual views, they are part of System tailored Activity entity family (Activity, Activity Pointer, Activity Party, Custom Activity types, etc).
If you see any Activity entity properties, the checkbox 'Display in Activity Menus' is checked & disabled. This settings is being used for navigation, views, filters, etc.
Even while creating custom activity, this option is enabled & if you forget to check it, that particular Custom Activity type will be hidden from everywhere wherever you are using its siblings (Email, Fax, etc)
If its unchecked, Even Associated view will not be showing this activity under it's regarding Parent record, which is failing the main reason why we are using CRM & activity relationship.
In a nutshell, this setting once enabled, cannot be undone. The activity cannot be distinguished/disabled using security role, because all are of same bucket.
Maybe you can try some unsupported customizations using DOM explorer in javascript & hide it, which I don't recommend. PowerObjects blog talk about renaming it to something to avoid users using it & other options.
I'm using the api/data/v8.0 API endpoint of a microsoft crm 2016 and I can retrieve and update a specific entity using GET and PATCH on api/data/v8.0/accounts(063e4c86-e7f0-e511-93f7-123456bb6ce7).
That entity has a property called jobtypecode (I can see that on the JSON response of the GET) and on the front end of the CRM the possible values are the following (I retrieved them using dev tools by inspecting that html select):
721874717 Full Time
721874719 Part Time
721874713 Academic
721874714 Other
How can I retrieve those values via the API?
I tried using api/data/v8.0/GlobalOptionSetDefinitions and various combinations of api/data/v8.0/EntityDefinitions but no luck.
You can use EntityDefinitions with the MetadataId of account, add a filter to only get the optionset you want.
EntityDefinitions(70816501-edb9-4740-a16c-6a5efbc05d84)/Attributes/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.PicklistAttributeMetadata?$select=LogicalName&$expand=OptionSet,GlobalOptionSet
Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt607522.aspx#bkmk_queryAttributes
inside a Outlook COM Add-in (C#) I was able to retrieve all selected mails inside Outlook like this
var selection = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveExplorer().Selection;
List<Outlook.MailItem> outlookMailList = new List<Outlook.MailItem>();
foreach (object mail in selection)
outlookMailList.Add((Outlook.MailItem)mail);
to store the selected mails with some meta data inside a DMS.
Now I would like to do the same with the Javascript API for Office (office.js).
What is the correct entry point here? Because when I select more than one mail inside Outlook the OutlookTab-buttons inside the default ribbon get deactivated.
see also http://bettersolutions.com/javascript-api/hosts/extensionpoint.htm
For retrieving the mail information I have found
selectedMail = Office.context.mailbox.item;
How can I get now the data for all marked mails in Outlook. I expected to have something like
selectedMails = Office.context.mailbox.items;
// OR
selectedMails = Office.context.mailbox.selectedItems;
Does someone know how to retrieve the information which mails were selected to the TaskPane or maybe a CustomPane? Respectively if it is even possible?
Thanks a lot.
Unfortunately Office JS API built for handling a single item. Handling multiple items is not possible.
If this is a new feature you want to include in the future, you may submit a feedback.
https://officespdev.uservoice.com/
Best regards
Advance warning: Im an absolute newbie to Dynamics CRM!
Intention
I want to have a feature like Lync/Skype integration but use my own URL. (Click on any telephone number inside CRM and call it).
For eg. assuming I have a web service which can initiate a call per URL: http://telephony.com/call?nr=012345678. Now, whenever a CRM user clicks onto a telephone number field (in forms and views) inside the CRM my web service should be called instead of Skype/Lync.
In fact I'm trying to reproduce sth. like the InGenius Connecter.
Attempts
I already tried to inject a JS web resource to a specific formular (in my case it was the default contact form) and override the Mscrm.ReadFormUtilities.openPhoneClient callback (which seems to handle the Lync/Skype integration).
function load() {
// override integrated CTC (Lync/Skype)
Mscrm.ReadFormUtilities.openPhoneClient = function (telephoneNr) {
// redirect user to my web service
window.location.replace("http://telephony.com/call?nr="+telephoneNr);
return;
}
}
Found this method at: Disable Lync completely
This does work well in forms of Dynamics 2015 (my custom link pops up instead of Skype/Lync). However, this does only work on entity forms since I can't inject web resources into an entity view.
My other ideas how to implement such a feature are:
Inject global JS resource which disables Lync/Skype and encapsulate every telephone number with link to my custom URL.
Extend/Manipulate Lync/Skype integration to use my custom URL instead of Lync/Skype.
Write plugin which encapsulate telephone numbers server side.
Question
Since I have a grasp understanding of Dynamics and no experience in plugin/resource development, I'm left a bit confused with these questions.
Is it possible to achieve any of the three ideas above ?
If not, any idea how InGenius solved this problem ?
Do you have any other idea/resources about this topic ?
Currently I found two options available to achieve a custom CTC feature. (Both has the downside of not being officialy supported by the dynamics crm.)
Global Ribbon
Pretty simple: Add a Click-To-Call button to global ribbon which is only enabled on specific grids when one row is selected.
This button refers to an JS-Action which retrieves the telephone number via ODATA and then launches the dial process.
Global Ribbon CustomRule injection
Add a global button to ribbon which refers to a JS resource per <CustomRule>. The JScript then unbinds all actions from links with .ms-crm-Phone classes and replaces its href-attribute.
This would be useful if one want to override the integrated "Skype / Lync - Click to Dial" feature with his own logic.
I didn't test this method until now, so I can't guarentee it's working !
Note: I will include example scripts as soon I got the time.