Form JavaScript Manager

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has a nice feature of customizing forms but when comes the time to write JavaScript, the bad time comes: no colored syntax, no formatting, etc.

This tool was created to ease the exportation and importation of individual scripts in files to allow you to use an advanced script editor instead of the customization interface.

The main features are:

• Script export in individual files
  • The format of file is:
    • <Entityname>_<event>.js when onload/onsave event
    • < Entityname>_<event>_<attributename>.js for attributes script
  • Open files with Visual Studio (if present)
  • Open files with default text editor
  • Script file change detection
  • Script import by selecting specific scripts

Besides this tool, I provide a command line utility that works like the initial application. See below for this command line instructions.

How to use the tool

1. Define the entity for which you want to export the scripts. You can display a list of available entities by clicking the browsing button (“…”). You can also type in directly the logical names of entities, separated with a comma.
2. Click on the button “Export scripts” to display the list of entity scripts.
3. By clicking on a script you can see the script content on the right panel. The checkbox is used to know which scripts will be exported to disk.
4. To export the scripts to disk, define a target directory and click on the button “Export to disk”. Once the export is done, you can choose to display the tab “Script Import”.
5. As the tool can be run only to import files, you can specify where to search for script files on the disk. Only files that respect the naming convention are displayed.
6. Use the contextual menu to access edit/import functions:
   1. Edit with Visual Studio: if Visual Studio is installed on the computer, this action opens the script in the Microsoft code editor.
   2. Edit with default text editor: Uses the default text editor to open the script file
   3. Import script: reload the script file and import it to the CRM server
   4. Import and Publish script: reload the script file, import and published to the CRM Server
      
7. The import functions are also available through bottom right buttons.

Command Line Instructions

The command FormJavascriptManagerCommand allows you to automate the export and import of the form scripts

FormJavascriptManager.exe /c <connectionName> /f <folderPath> [/i|/e] [optionalParameters]

Mandatory Parameters:

/c <connectionName> : Name of the connection to use in mscrmtools.config file

/f <folderPath> : Folder where to read and write scripts

/e <entitiesList> : Export the scripts of specified entities in <entitiesList> (with format entity1;entity2;entity3)

/i : Import the scripts located in the specified folder

Optional Parameters:

/p : Publish the customizations (Must be used with /i parameter)

/pwd <password> : Password when using custom or IFD authentication

/l <logFilePath> : Path for the log file

Examples

FormJavascriptManager.exe /c AnIfdConnection /pwd MyPassword /e account;contact;lead /f d:\exportFolder /l d:\logFolder\log.txt

FormJavascriptManager.exe /c OnPremiseConnection /i /p /f d:\importFolder /l d:\logFolder\log.txt