Navish Jain MS Dynamics CRM Consultant

In this article , I am going to explain how to user javascript and Soap XML to create record in CRM 2011/4.0

Creating Contact entity record

// Prepare values for the new contact.
var firstname = "Navish";
var lastname = "Jain";
var donotbulkemail = "true";
var address1_stateorprovince = "CHD";
var address1_postalcode = "160036";
var address1_line1 = "#1429/2";
var address1_city = "Chandigarh";
var authenticationHeader = GenerateAuthenticationHeader();

// Prepare the SOAP message.
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'>" +
authenticationHeader +
"<soap:Body>" +
"<Create xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices'>" +
"<entity xsi:type='contact'>" +
"<address1_city>" + address1_city + "</address1_city>" +
"<address1_line1>" + address1_line1 + "</address1_line1>" +
"<address1_postalcode>" + address1_postalcode + "</address1_postalcode>" +
"<address1_stateorprovince>" + address1_stateorprovince + "</address1_stateorprovince>" +
"<donotbulkemail>" + donotbulkemail + "</donotbulkemail>" +
"<firstname>" + firstname + "</firstname>" +
"<lastname>" + lastname + "</lastname>" +
"</entity>" +
"</Create>" +
"</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/Create");
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);
}

XML with a CreateResponse element that returns the ID for the record created


<?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">
 <soap:Body>
  <CreateResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices">
   <CreateResult>368c8b1b-851c-dd11-ad3a-0003ff9ee217</CreateResult>
  </CreateResponse>
 </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>




Updating Contact Record

// Prepare variables for updating a contact.
var contactId = "89a7e456-8098-bb33-b345-0003gg9ff218";
var newAddressLine1 = "#1429/2";
var authenticationHeader = GenerateAuthenticationHeader();

// Prepare the SOAP message.
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'>" +
authenticationHeader +
"<soap:Body>" +
"<Update xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices'>" +
"<entity xsi:type='contact'>" +
"<address1_line1>" + newAddressLine1 + "</address1_line1>" +
"<contactid>" + contactId + "</contactid>" +
"</entity>" +
"</Update>" +
"</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/Update");
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);
}

XML that returns a UpdateResponse


<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">
 <soap:Body>
  <UpdateResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices" />
 </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>




Deleting Contact record

// Identify the contact to delete.
var contactid = "89a7e456-8098-bb33-b345-0003gg9ff218";
var authenticationHeader = GenerateAuthenticationHeader();

// Prepare the SOAP message.
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'>"+
authenticationHeader+
"<soap:Body>"+
"<Delete xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices'>"+
"<entityName>contact</entityName>"+
"<id>"+contactid+"</id>"+
"</Delete>"+
"</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/Delete");
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);
}

XML that returns a DeleteResponse


<?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">
 <soap:Body>
  <DeleteResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices" />
 </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>