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Background: There could be times where we need to compare the datetime field with today's date in the plugin for some validations. Example: We had a requirement to compare the expiry date field with today's date.  During comparison it was not giving the expected result. In our scenario, User's timezone is in IST. In plugin, the expiry date was returned in UTC. So, if user sets the date set as 21-Oct-2021 12:00:00 PM IST, in plugin code it was returning  19-Oct-2021 12:00:00 IST and comparing with the today's date,  21-Oct-2021 12:00:00. This resulted in incorrect comparison. So, we had to convert both expiry date and today's date to user local before comparison. Following are the steps to achieve the same. 1. Get the initiating user id in plugin  2. Retrieve timezonecode from user settings entity based on  initiating user id. 3. Initiate  LocalTimeFromUtcTimeRequest by passing expiry date in UTC along with user's timezonecode to get the User's local time. B...

Requirement: We had a requirement where we need to create custom button for 'Add Existing' functionality and show/hide this button based on the view selected in the Order subgrid. Solution: In the enable rule of the button, register a custom JS function and pass 'selected control' crm parameter to the function as shown below. Below is the code snippet to retrieve the view name from the subgrid view. selectedControl.getViewSelector().getCurrentView().name With this you can compare the view name which you want and return true/false based on the selected  view . Complete function: function ShowHideCustomAddExistingOrderSubgrid(selectedControl) { var enable = false; if (selectedControl !== null && selectedControl.getEntityName() === "salesorder" && selectedControl.getViewSelector().getCurrentView() !== null) { var viewName = "Orders in reschedule queue"; if (selectedControl.getViewSelector().getCu...

Background: Usually when something goes wrong in the button visibility or to find out the rules, actions(js) being used in the ribbon button, we go and find either in the ribbondiffxml or through ribbon workbench. This is a time taking process.  Solution: Now there is a built-in tool called 'Command Checker' available. Using this tool, we can easily troubleshoot the button visibility related issues in home page grid, entity form, sub grid and global command bar as well.  To use/enable this tool, pass "ribbondebug=true" parameter in the url. Example, if you want to troubleshoot some button in Account form, below is the url,  https://trial.crm5.dynamics.com/main.aspx?appid=4db5bcb8-675b-ec11-8f8f-002248599a15&pagetype=entityrecord&etn=account&id=83883308-7ad5-ea11-a813-000d3a33f3b4 &ribbondebug=true This will enable the command bar in 3 places. 1. In the header's right side 2. In the Form command bar 3. If the form has any sub grids. Co...