Open an ASPX page from the sitemap in CRM 4 and 2011

Question

What I would like to do is to place an item on the sitemap that doesn't lead to a CRM page but would open www.MyNewPage.aspx. I need to do this programmatically and an iFrame in a CRM page is not what I'm looking for.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

you can add html pages as webresources. You can make those webresources targets for sitemap entires like this in your sitemap, notice the url.

      <SubArea Id="nav_yourlink" Url="$webresource:new_mynewpage.htm" Icon="$webresource:new_image.png">
        <Titles>
          <Title LCID="1033" Title="my title" />
        </Titles>
        <Descriptions>
          <Description LCID="1033" Description="my descr"/>
        </Descriptions>
      </SubArea>

Then you can embed whatever javascript you want in that html page to launch your webpage. The two main ways to launch a new page from javascript:

window.location = 'www.mydomain.com/mypage.aspx'; // set the content INSIDE crm's content pane.

or (sounds like this one is what you want)

window.open('www.mydomain.com/mypage.aspx'); // open it in a new window, leaving CRM's content pane blank.