How To add Autocomplete to a Text Field in Dynamics CRM
Scenario: It might be requested you: when user types texts to a textbox, System helps to user with suggesting some values from couple entities in Dynamics CRM or maybe fetching records from any other resources. Solution; It is very simple, just register your code to the key press event for the object and fill the object with suggested values . There is supported event for MSCRM engine (it has been so long since i do not call MSCRM :) ) calls : addOnKeyPress - when user presses a key over the object, the event is called for given delegated method please consider performance and load on the network so; 1- do not fetch data from external resources each time user clicks the key - you can wait for the first 3 or 4 letters from the user 2- never fetch all matching records what user types so far, add "top 20 records" to your fetch method Implementation: first of all register the method while loading the form in Dynamics CRM: <Practice> Create...