Popping up a message box/ alert from Plugin.

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  This is not possible from Plugin as it runs directly on server. Plugins are meant to handle only bussines logic (Internal Processing). Hence showing a message box/alert from plugin is not recommended.
  You can achieve your requirement using Javascript only.

  Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:17 AM
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  The only feedback that a plugin can provide is via the exception, which necessarily rolls back the transaction.

  An alternative approach (if using Crm 2013) would be to create a Action the performs the task you want, and returns a value based on success or failure and call it from javascript

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  Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:47 AM

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  I remember that I came across the same situation when a customer was very particular that he want an alert on creation. My recollection is hazy but I think we did something like following to achieve it. Its not very clean solution but works when you don't have any other way of doing. 

  • Create a bool type custom field on Entity and add it to hidden section on form. 
  • Register a pre-operation plugin on Create message.
  • Set the custom field value to true
  • On form load, write a JavaScript function to check if custom field value is 'true'.
  • inside the IF condition set the custom field value to 'false'.
  • Throw an alert to display the message you want to display.

  • Proposed as answer by jattscorpion Thursday, May 8, 2014 8:52 AM

  Wednesday, May 7, 2014 2:29 PM