Navish Jain MS Dynamics CRM Consultant

In this article , I am going to explain how to use Soap XML Retrieve web service
http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/RetrieveMultiple

In this javascript code i am fetching all contact have same value as custom attribute value

Soap XML retrievemutliple
var contactname = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_contact").getValue();
var authenticationHeader = GenerateAuthenticationHeader();
if (contactname != null && contactname != "undefined") {
    var Accountxml = "" + "<?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>" +
    "    <RetrieveMultiple xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices\">" +
    "      <query xmlns:q1='http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/Query' xsi:type='q1:QueryExpression\'>" +
    "        <q1:EntityName>contact</q1:EntityName>" +

    "        <q1:ColumnSet xsi:type=\"q1:ColumnSet\">" +
    "          <q1:Attributes>" +
    "            <q1:Attribute>address1_city</q1:Attribute>" +
    "            <q1:Attribute>address1_stateorprovince</q1:Attribute>" +
    "          </q1:Attributes>" +
    "        </q1:ColumnSet>" +

    "        <q1:Distinct>false</q1:Distinct>" +

    "        <q1:PageInfo>" +
    "          <q1:PageNumber>1</q1:PageNumber>" +
    "          <q1:Count>1</q1:Count>" +
    "        </q1:PageInfo>" +

    "        <q1:Criteria>" +
    "          <q1:FilterOperator>And</q1:FilterOperator>" +
    "          <q1:Conditions>" +
    "            <q1:Condition>" +
    "              <q1:AttributeName>firstname</q1:AttributeName>" +
    "              <q1:Operator>Equal</q1:Operator>" +
    "              <q1:Values>" +
    "                <q1:Value xsi:type=\"xsd:string\">" + contactname + "</q1:Value>" +
    "              </q1:Values>" +
    "            </q1:Condition>" +
    "          </q1:Conditions>" +
    "        </q1:Criteria>" +
    "      </query>" +
    "    </RetrieveMultiple>" +
    "  </soap:Body>" +
    "</soap:Envelope>" +
    "";
    // Create an instance of an XMLHTTP object.
    var xmlHttpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
    xmlHttpRequest.Open(
            "POST",
            "/mscrmservices/2007/CrmService.asmx",
            false
            );

    xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader(
            "SOAPAction",
            "http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/RetrieveMultiple"
            );

    xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader(
            "Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8"
            );

    xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader(
            "Content-Length", Accountxml.length
            );

    // Send the XMLHttp request.
    xmlHttpRequest.send(Accountxml);
    // Capture the XMLHttp response in XML format.
    var resultXml = xmlHttpRequest.responseXML;

    if (resultXml.selectSingleNode("//q1:address1_city") != null) {         Xrm.Page.getAttribute("address1_city").setValue(resultXml.selectSingleNode("//q1:address1_city").nodeTypedValue);
    }
    else {
        Xrm.Page.getAttribute("address1_city").setValue(null);
    }


    if (resultXml.selectSingleNode("//q1:address1_stateorprovince") != null) {         Xrm.Page.getAttribute("address1_stateorprovince").setValue(resultXml.selectSingleNode("//q1:address1_stateorprovince").nodeTypedValue);
    }
    else {
        Xrm.Page.getAttribute("address1_stateorprovince").setValue(null);
    }

}