Area

Method and Syntax

Description

Data

Xrm.Page.data.refresh(save).then(successCallback, errorCallback)

Asynchronously refreshes and optionally saves all the data of the form without reloading the page.

You can pass a callback method to execute on success or error

Data

Xrm.Page.data.save().then(successCallback, errorCallback)

See my blog post on this here

Data

Xrm.Page.data.getIsValid()

Returns a Boolean value indicating if the form can be saved or not

Data

Xrm.Page.data.setFormDirty()

Set the form as dirty

Entity

Xrm.Page.data.entity.getPrimaryAttributeValue()

Gets a string for the value of the primary attribute of the entity.

UI

Xrm.Page.ui.setFormNotification(message, level, uniqueId);

Xrm.Page.ui.clearFormNotification(uniqueId)

Use setFormNotification to display form level notifications and clearFormNotification to remove notifications. Gareth Tucker has a great article on these here.

Controls

Xrm.Page.getControl(fieldName).setNotification(message)

Xrm.Page.getControl(fieldName).clearNotification()

See article linked above for details. Notifications can be set at the field level

Number

Xrm.Page.getAttribute(fieldName).setPrecision(precision)

This method is used to override the field’s precision

Date

Xrm.Page.getControl(arg).setShowTime(bool)

Specify whether a date control should show the time portion of the date.

Date

Xrm.Page.getControl(arg).setIsAllDay(bool)

Specify whether a date control should set a value including the entire day.

Lookup

Xrm.Page.getControl(arg).addCustomFilter(filter, entityLogicaName)

Use add additional filters to the results displayed in the lookup. Each filter will be combined with any previously added filters as an ‘AND’ condition

The entity logical name is optional. If this is set the filter will only apply to that entity type. Otherwise it will apply to all types of entities returned.

Lookup

Xrm.Page.getControl(arg).addPreSearch(handler)

Use this method to apply changes to lookups based on values current just as the user is about to view results for the lookup.

The argument is a function that will be run just before the search to provide results for a lookup occurs. You can use this handler to call one of the other lookup control functions and improve the results to be displayed in the lookup.

Lookup

Xrm.Page.getControl(arg).removePreSearch(handler)

This API call is used to remove event handler functions that have previously been set for the PreSearch event (see above)

Context

Xrm.Page.context.getUserName()

Returns the name of the current user.

Context

Xrm.Page.context.client.getClient()

Xrm.Page.context.client.getClientState()

See my blog post about it here

Utility

Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(message,onCloseCallback)

Xrm.Utility.confirmDialog(message,yesCloseCallback,noCloseCallback)

Displays a dialog box containing an application-defined message.

Displays a confirmation dialog box that contains an optional message as well as OK and Cancel buttons.

See additional notes on this here.

Utility

Xrm.Utility.isActivityType(entityName)

Determine if an entity is an activity entity.

Utility

Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm(name,id,parameters)

Opens an entity form. Parameters are optional and used to pass the form ID, set default field values or pass custom query string parameters

Utility

Xrm.Utility.openWebResource(webResourceName,webResourceData,width, height)

Opens an HTML web resource.