Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform

Today we got a requirement to call a Plugin on click of Custom button.

First we thought of updating a field in the record and register a plugin on that field update. After some search I came to that we can trigger a plugin on execution of Action and also we can execute the Action from Javascript.

Follow the below steps to implement this.

Create a blank Action name Trigger Plugin.

Open Plugin Registration Tool and Register a plugin which you want to execute.
Create a step and give the message as Action Name.

That’s it, you are done.
When you execute a Action, you will the plugin is triggered.
One more good thing is we can call the Action from JavaScript and also from C#.

C#
OrganizationRequest orgReq = new OrganizationRequest(“new_TriggerPlugin”);
orgReq[“Target”] = new EntityReference(“account”, new Guid(“01DC64CE-0752-E511-80D8-000D3AA023B6”));
OrganizationResponse response = iService.Execute(orgReq);

JavaScript
function CallAction() {
    var accountId = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();
    var entityName = “account”;
    var requestName = “new_TriggerAction”;
    ExecuteAction(accountId, entityName, requestName);
}

    // Creating the request XML for calling the Action
    var requestXML = “”
    requestXML += ““;
    requestXML += “  “;
    requestXML += “    “;
    requestXML += “      “;
    requestXML += “        “;
    requestXML += “          “;
    requestXML += “            Target“;
    requestXML += “            “;
    requestXML += “              “ + entityId + ““;
    requestXML += “              “ + entityName + ““;
    requestXML += “              “;
    requestXML += “            “;
    requestXML += “          “;
    requestXML += “        “;
    requestXML += “        “;
    requestXML += “        “ + requestName + ““;
    requestXML += “      “;
    requestXML += “    “;
    requestXML += “  “;
    requestXML += ““;
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    req.open(“POST”, Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + “/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web”, 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 Resonse from the CRM Execute method
    var response = req.responseXML;
}

You can use SoapLogger to generate request for you. Follow the link to know How to use SoapLogger

Hope this helps.

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Happy CRM’ing
Gopinath