mscrm4ever: CRM 4.0 Make your announcements come to life

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Источник: http://mscrm4ever.blogspot.com/2009/...s-come-to.html
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CRM has a nice feature (or at least a decent idea) called announcements which allows you to integrate and share textual messages with all CRM users.
The main issue with announcements is that the body or description field does not interprets hyper text.


Now wouldn’t it be nice to be able to integrate reach html messages into CRM using announcements. Although you can easily create your own reach text announcement mechanism and integrate it into CRM site map I actually find it more appealing leveraging an existing feature.


In order to force the announcement page support HTML is made a simple modification to the home / homepage / home_news.aspx. now, since modifying CRM files is unsupported consider the ramification before actually doing so.


The home_news.aspx page contains html that looks like this:





























If you take a closer look at the generated html (using iedevtoolbar) you’ll notice that the announcement messages are rendered as table rows. I wanted to make as little change to this page as possible and still support HTML. In order to do so I used a simple technique which wraps the inner body content (table element) in a textarea and reads the textarea value into a new span element as innerHTML.


Here is how the page looks like after the modification is made:



































One thing that you need to minded of is that the html you paste in the announcement body should be a one liner. This is because the line breaks are interpreted as br elements.


That’s all, enjoy your new announcement feature.


Источник: http://mscrm4ever.blogspot.com/2009/...s-come-to.html