I thought that I would outline some of the conversion techniques that we use in the CRM Migration Assistant to convert JavaScript from the CRM 4.0 object model to the CRM 2011 object model.
Many of the techniques we used in CRM 4.0 were technically unsupported. But since work had to be done, we did stuff like that anyway.
As part of the migration process we actually convert many forms of unsupported, and supported, code into their supported CRM 2011 equivalents.
Here are a few of the basic conversions that you can do:
Tabs
| CRM 4.0 | CRM 2011 |
crmForm.all.tab0Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(0) |
crmForm.all.tab1Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(1) |
crmForm.all.tab2Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(2) |
crmForm.all.tab3Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(3) |
crmForm.all.tab4Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(4) |
crmForm.all.tab5Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(5) |
crmForm.all.tab6Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(6) |
crmForm.all.tab7Tab |
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(7) |
Global Variables and Methods
| CRM 4.0 | CRM 2011 |
ORG_LANGUAGE_CODE |
Xrm.Page.context.getOrgLcid() |
ORG_UNIQUE_NAME |
Xrm.Page.context.getOrgUniqueName() |
SERVER_URL |
Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl() |
USER_LANGUAGE_CODE |
Xrm.Page.context.getUserLcid() |
GenerateAuthenticationHeader() |
Xrm.Page.context.getAuthenticationHeader() |
Form Properties and Methods
| CRM 4.0 | CRM 2011 |
crmForm.ObjectId |
Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId() |
crmForm.ObjectTypeName |
Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName() |
crmForm.Save() |
Xrm.Page.data.entity.save() |
crmForm.SaveAndClose() |
Xrm.Page.data.entity.save('SaveAndClose')
|
crmFormSubmit.crmFormSubmitId.value |
Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId() |
For more information on how the CRM Migration Assistant can help convert your JavaScript, visit our product page.
