PS: if you finalize a working set of code for this, please post back to this thread or make a blog posting that I can point people to. It would be very exciting to finally have a Javascript-only resolution to this issue for many developers.
Dave Berry - MVP Dynamics CRM - http:\\crmentropy.blogspot.com
Thank you for your input.... I used Data URI and here is the final code.... You are right IE5-7 do not support this but working fine in IE8.
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// *********************************************************
// To fetch the picture file from the Notes Entity
// *********************************************************
var xml = "" +
"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>" +
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>" +
GenerateAuthenticationHeader() +
"<soap:Body>" +
"<Fetch xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices'>" +
"<fetchXml>" +
"<fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' distinct='false'>"+
"<entity name='annotation'>"+
"<attribute name='filename'/>"+
"<attribute name='documentbody'/>"+
"<attribute name='annotationid'/>"+
"<order attribute='subject' descending='false'/>"+
"<filter type='and'>"+
"<condition attribute='isdocument' operator='eq' value='1'/>"+
"<condition attribute='filename' operator='eq' value='mex9.jpg'/>"+
"</filter>"+
"</entity>"+
"</fetch>"+
" </fetchXml>" +
" </Fetch>" +
" </soap:Body>" +
"</soap:Envelope>";
// Prepare the xmlHttpObject and send the request.
var xHReq = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
xHReq.Open("POST", "/mscrmservices/2007/CrmService.asmx", false);
xHReq.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction","http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/Fetch");
xHReq.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
xHReq.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", xml.length);
xHReq.send(xml);
// Capture the result.
var resultXml = xHReq.responseXML;
// Check for errors.
var errorCount = resultXml.selectNodes('//error').length;
if (errorCount != 0)
{
var msg = resultXml.selectSingleNode('//description').nodeTypedValue;
alert(msg);
}
// Process and display the results.
else
{
// Capture the result and UnEncode it.
var resultSet = new String();
resultSet = resultXml.text;
resultSet.replace('<','<');
resultSet.replace('>','>');
// Create an XML document that you can parse.
var oXmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
oXmlDoc.async = false;
// Load the XML document that has the UnEncoded results.
oXmlDoc.loadXML(resultSet);
// Display the results.
var results = oXmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('result');
for (i=0;i < results.length;i++)
{var docBody= results[i].selectSingleNode('./documentbody').nodeTypedValue;}
crmForm.all.IFRAME_Picture.src="";
// BE CAREFULL WITH THE QUOTES
var image = "<img alt='', src= 'data:image/jpeg;base64," + docBody + "'> </img>";
ff = document.getElementById("IFRAME_Picture");
ff.contentWindow.document.write(image);
}
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