Dynamics CRM 2011 Navigation UI Record Counter
As an early Xmas gift I’m releasing the Navigation UI Record Counter add-on for free on CodePlex.
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This is a fully supported solution, there are no tricks
involved in displaying the record count. We’ve used the out
of the box Xrm.Page.navigation methods to set the label.
This record counter will show you the number of active
records of the desired related entity.
If you’re
interested in learning how this works under the covers read
on, otherwise download it from
http://uirecordcounter.codeplex.com. There are couple of steps you need to take in order to
get it up and running, please see the documentation tab for
more detail, otherwise contact us and we’ll be happy to
help.
Under the Covers
Once you
import the solution you can call a function that’s part of
uirecordcounter.js web resource called
“UIRecordCounter.Counter.displayCount”, this takes in a
single parameter that allows you to specify which navigation
items to display the record count in. Syntax of the
parameter is:
[‘navItemName:entitySchemaName:foreignKeySchemaName’,
‘navActivities:activitypointer:regardingobjectid’]
Navigation
item names can be found via IE Developer Tools (F12). Entity
schema name is the related entity schema name, eg: if you
want to display the activity count for an account record the
entity schema name is “activitypointer”. The foreign key
schema name field is where the current record (contact)
primary key is stored, in the example of activities this can
be “regardingobjectid”.
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Enjoy!