Step By Step Adding Configuration Page in Solution MS CRM 2011 Part -2

In my earlier post I have used a simple html web resource to set as configuration page and I found this post quite popular, so I thought to write another post on this. In this post I will show how can we get configuration details from xml web resource to display it in configuration page. We can use it in different way, but for the demo purpose I have kept it simple. You can follow below steps to show configuration data stored in xml web resource:

1. Create a xml web resource where we can store our configuration information, for example our product registration information. I am using below xml in my  new_Configuration.xml web resource

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<Configuration>
  <RegisteredTo>Mahender Pal</RegisteredTo>
  <RegisterationID>108837729827822</RegisterationID>
  <Description>This is a xRM Demo solution</Description>
</Configuration>

2. Create a new html web resource and add below code to read data from our xml web resource

<HTML xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”><HEAD><TITLE>xRM Demo</TITLE>
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
function ShowConfiguration() {
var Webresourceurl = WebResourceURL; //we need to provide our xml webresource url here we can get it from CRM
var nodePath = “//Configuration”;
var XmlDoc= new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLDOM”);
XmlDoc.preserveWhiteSpace = true;
XmlDoc.async = false;
XmlDoc.load(Webresourceurl);
var nodelist;
nodelist = doc.selectNodes(nodePath);
document.getElementById(‘registeredto’).value = nodelist[0].selectSingleNode(“RegisteredTo”).nodeTypedValue;
document.getElementById(‘registerationid’).value = nodelist[0].selectSingleNode(“RegisterationID”).nodeTypedValue;
document.getElementById(‘description’).value =  nodelist[0].selectSingleNode(“Description”).nodeTypedValue;
}
</SCRIPT>

<META charset=utf-8></HEAD>
<BODY onload=ShowConfiguration() contentEditable=true bgColor=#6666ff>
<P><FONT size=6 face=”Tahoma, Verdana, Arial”><FONT color=#ffffff><STRONG>Product Registertion Information</STRONG></FONT>&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<HR>

<TABLE>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD><STRONG><FONT color=#ffffff>Product Registered To :</FONT></STRONG></TD>
<TD><INPUT style=”BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6666ff; COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none” id=registeredto TD <></TD>
<TR>
<TD><STRONG><FONT color=#ffffff>Registration ID :</FONT></STRONG></TD>
<TD><INPUT style=”BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6666ff; COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none” id=registerationid TD <></TD>
<TR>
<TD><STRONG><FONT color=#ffffff>Product Description :</FONT></STRONG></TD>
<TD><INPUT style=”BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6666ff; COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none” id=description size=40 TD <></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>

3. Set your html web resource in configuration page lookup in solution and save it.

Now when you will try to click configuration page you should get it like below

2 thoughts on “Step By Step Adding Configuration Page in Solution MS CRM 2011 Part -2

  1. terry

    Hey, thanks for the help. I can’t figure out however how to read the xml file from the html page. I created to webresources, one is the XML page and the other is the HTML page. I tried to cut and paste your code, and I also tried to change the WebResourceURL to the URL given when editing the webresource, but neither work.

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