Comments on: Adding a toolbar button to create new, related entities

By: mitch

mitch — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:34:20 +0000

It should work, but I'd have to try it to be sure. I'll try and do that next week sometime.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:47:35 +0000

I need to add a phone call button in CRM 4.0. Please can you tell me if this works for CRM 4.0 and if this is the best way.

Thanks
Sarah

By: Luis Fernando

Luis Fernando — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:00:53 +0000

Valeu, pela ajuda…
Muito bom este teu exemplo

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:15:08 +0000

Mitch, Awesome post. I have same project regarding same needs (buttons on top).

By: mitch

mitch — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:29:51 +0000

That is a great point Matt and not one I'm sure I have an answer for.

Mitch

By: mwittemann

mwittemann — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:20:19 +0000

Mitch, one weird thing I've found when adding these buttons is that the exact function to call can sometimes be less than intuitive. For example, if you want to add an activity to an opportunity, and you want the activity's "Regarding" field to be pre-populated with the Opportunity, you need to call the locAddActTo(4210) function. You would think the locAddRelatedTo() function would make it related to the parent object, but it doesn't seem to work that way…

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