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    I am using Xrm.page library to create contact entity form pop-ups. These pop-ups are not event triggered. New forms are successfully opening, but when I try to open an existing entity corresponding to its GUID as:

    Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm("contact", GUID);

    I get following error:

    Record Is Unavailable

    The requested record was not found or you do not have sufficient permissions to view it.

    How can I open an existing entity with Xrm.page library, is there anyother way of achieving this task?

    Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:34 AM

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    Hang on, what are you trying to open? A contact or an address?

    If you want to open a contact, you need to get the 'contactid' field which contains the contact's primarykey/guid.

    If you want to open the address, you need to set the entity name to 'customeraddress' in your openEntityForm JavaScript call.

    Paul

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    • Marked as answer by Absaar Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:00 AM
    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:40 AM
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    Hi Absaar,

    address1_addressid is unique identifier, I think it will return you the Guid. Please try to debug the code.

    Why are you passing contact then, it would be customeraddress I think.

    Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm("contact", GUID);

    Thanks!

    • Marked as answer by Absaar Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:00 AM
    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:45 AM

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    The way you're doing it is correct. Are you sure GUID is valid, and that is links to an already-existing contact?

    Can you open that contact record through the UI and compare the URL that is failing?

    If you can't see an obvious error post both URL's here.

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    Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:42 AM
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    Paul, thank you for your reply, May be I am getting the wrong GUID. Can you guide me how to get the GUID of a particular entity record?
    Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:46 AM
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    Where are you trying to get the guid from? Maybe post your current code, and explain what you're trying to do and we'll go from there.

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    Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:08 AM
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    I am using linq to extract the value of contact entity field "address1_addressid", I then pass the extracted value to this Xrm.page method, but then I get this error.

    Now does the value of enetity "address1_addressid" will give me GUID or is there something seriously wrong?

    • Edited by Absaar Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:29 AM
    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:27 AM
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    Hang on, what are you trying to open? A contact or an address?

    If you want to open a contact, you need to get the 'contactid' field which contains the contact's primarykey/guid.

    If you want to open the address, you need to set the entity name to 'customeraddress' in your openEntityForm JavaScript call.

    Paul

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    • Marked as answer by Absaar Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:00 AM
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    Hi Absaar,

    address1_addressid is unique identifier, I think it will return you the Guid. Please try to debug the code.

    Why are you passing contact then, it would be customeraddress I think.

    Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm("contact", GUID);

    Thanks!

    • Marked as answer by Absaar Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:00 AM
    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:45 AM
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    Thanx a lot Paul, it actually helped, cheers :)
    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:01 AM
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    Hi

     You can get the guid of current record like

    var Id = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();

    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:03 AM
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    @Riaz, if he was on the record he wanted to open, he wouldn't need JavaScript :)

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    Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:11 AM