CRM Dynamics 2015 Ribbon Button Trigger plugin using JavaScript

Question

I have a scenario where I need to trigger a plugin on a ribbon button click, I have setup the commands and buttons, I have created a custom action,that will be registered in the plugin reg tool to wire up the event. I have tested the ribbon button that just does a simple hello world, so I am sure that the basics are dine and set. My issue lies when I try to call the function that does a SOAP invocation. Here is my code below.

JavaScript

function ExecutePhoneCall(requestName, refreshPage, stringParameter) {
    // Creating the request XML for calling the Action
    var requestXML = ""

    if (stringParameter == null) {
        requestXML += "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
        requestXML += "<s:Body>";
        requestXML += "<Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services\"xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">";
        requestXML += "<request xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts\">";
        requestXML += "<a:Parameters xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic\">";
        requestXML += "          <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
        requestXML += "            <b:key>Target</b:key>";
        requestXML += "            <b:value i:type=\"a:EntityReference\">";
        requestXML += "              <a:Id>" + Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId() + "</a:Id>";
        requestXML += "              <a:LogicalName>" + Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName() + "</a:LogicalName>";
        requestXML += "              <a:Name i:nil=\"true\" />";
        requestXML += "            </b:value>";
        requestXML += "          </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
        requestXML += "        </a:Parameters>";
        requestXML += "        <a:RequestId i:nil=\"true\" />";
        requestXML += "        <a:RequestName>" + requestName + "</a:RequestName>";
        requestXML += "      </request>";
        requestXML += "    </Execute>";
        requestXML += "  </s:Body>";
        requestXML += "</s:Envelope>";
    }
    else {
        requestXML += "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
        requestXML += "  <s:Body>";
        requestXML += "    <Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services\"xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">";
        requestXML += "      <request xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts\">";
        requestXML += "        <a:Parameters xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic\">";
        requestXML += "          <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
        requestXML += "            <b:key>Target</b:key>";
        requestXML += "            <b:value i:type=\"a:EntityReference\">";
        requestXML += "              <a:Id>" + Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId() + "</a:Id>";
        requestXML += "              <a:LogicalName>" + Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName() + "</a:LogicalName>";
        requestXML += "              <a:Name i:nil=\"true\" />";
        requestXML += "            </b:value>";
        requestXML += "          </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
        requestXML += "          <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
        requestXML += "            <b:key>Data</b:key>";
        requestXML += "            <b:value i:type=\"c:string\" xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">" + stringParameter + "</b:value>";
        requestXML += "          </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
        requestXML += "        </a:Parameters>";
        requestXML += "        <a:RequestId i:nil=\"true\" />";
        requestXML += "        <a:RequestName>" + requestName + "</a:RequestName>";
        requestXML += "      </request>";
        requestXML += "    </Execute>";
        requestXML += "  </s:Body>";
        requestXML += "</s:Envelope>";
    }

    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    req.open("POST", GetServiceUrl(), false)
    req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml, text/xml, */*");
    req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
    req.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services/IOrganizationService/Execute");
    req.send(requestXML);

    //refresh the page if the request was successful.
    if (req.status == 200) {
        if (refreshPage) {
            RefreshForm()
        }
    }
    else {
        Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(req.statusText + "\n" + req.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("faultstring")[0].textContent);
    }
}

function RefreshForm() {
    Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm(Xrm.Page.data.entity.getEntityName(), Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId());
}

ExecutePhoneCall("new_ActivatePhonecall", true, "");

Answer 1

I dont see defined the function GetServiceUrl()

req.open("POST", GetServiceUrl(), false)

Here is an example how to do it ;)

function ExecuteAction(entityId, entityName, requestName) {
    // Creating the request XML for calling the Action
var requestXML = ""
requestXML += "<s:envelope xmlns:s="\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"">";
requestXML += "  <s:body>";
requestXML += "    <execute xmlns="\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services\"" xmlns:i="\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"">";
requestXML += "      <request xmlns:a="\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts\"">";
requestXML += "        <a:parameters xmlns:b="\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic\"">";
requestXML += "          <a:keyvaluepairofstringanytype>";
requestXML += "            <b:key>Target</b:key>";
requestXML += "            <b:value i:type="\"a:EntityReference\"">";
requestXML += "              <a:id>" + entityId + "</a:id>";
requestXML += "              <a:logicalname>" + entityName + "</a:logicalname>";
requestXML += "              <a:name i:nil="\"true\"">";
requestXML += "            </a:name></b:value>";
requestXML += "          </a:keyvaluepairofstringanytype>";
requestXML += "        </a:parameters>";
requestXML += "        <a:requestid i:nil="\"true\"">";
requestXML += "        <a:requestname>" + requestName + "</a:requestname>";
requestXML += "      </a:requestid></request>";
requestXML += "    </execute>";
requestXML += "  </s:body>";
requestXML += "</s:envelope>";
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("POST", GetClientUrl(), false)
req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml, text/xml, */*");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
req.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services/IOrganizationService/Execute");
req.send(requestXML); 
//Get the Response from the CRM Execute method
//var response = req.responseXML.xml;
}

function GetClientUrl() {
if (typeof Xrm.Page.context == "object") {
    clientUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl();
}
var ServicePath = "/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web";
return clientUrl + ServicePath;
}

Next, we need to create a function that will execute our action and pass the record’s GUID, the name of the entity the action is registered against, and the Action’s name (requestName, in this case).

function openPhoneCall() {
var entityId = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();
var entityName = "phonecall";
var requestName = "new_ReactivatePhoneCall";
ExecuteAction(entityId, entityName, requestName);
window.location.reload(true);   
}

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CRM 2013: Calling actions from javascript