Create an Email Activity in Microsoft Dyanamics CRM 2011 Using C# or Jscript

This illustration shows how to create an email activity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with CreateRequest.  This example will be given in Jscript (SOAP) and in C# (.NET).

Ok, here is what the code looks like!

First in C#:

CreateRequest reqCreate = new CreateRequest();
Entity emailCreate = new Entity("email");
emailCreate["subject"] = "test subject";
emailCreate["description"] = " test description";

//specify the owner for the mail (if necessary)
//emailCreate["ownerid"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", new Guid(OwnerId));

Entity ap = new Entity();
Entity ap2 = new Entity();

//You can comment out the line for addressused and use the partid instead to use an entity reference for an activity party
//I just wanted to show how you can specify an email address for an email as an activity party without an entity to go with it.
ap = new Entity("activityparty");
//ap["partyid"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", new Guid("CE08EE7F-4F36-E111-B6F6-0050569838D6"));
ap["addressused"] = "mileyja@gmail.com";
Entity[] aryTo = { ap };
emailCreate["to"] = aryTo;
    
//I am assigning a systemuser entity to the From attribute for the email acitivity 
ap2 = new Entity("activityparty");
ap2["partyid"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", new Guid("CE08EE7F-4F36-E111-B6F6-0050569838D6"));
Entity[] aryFrom = { ap2 };
emailCreate["from"] = aryFrom;

// This is how you assign an a reguarding object
emailCreate["regardingobjectid"] = new EntityReference("account", new Guid("AC946D36-3E41-E111-9D05-0050569838D6"));

reqCreate.Target = emailCreate;
CreateResponse resp = (CreateResponse)slos.Execute(reqCreate);

If you need help instantiating a service object in .NET within a plugin check out this post:
http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/04/instantiating-service-object-within.html

Now here is the Jscript nicely formatted by the CRM 2011 SOAP formatter. Available at: http://crm2011soap.codeplex.com/

Now in Jscript


Note:  This request library for jscript is written as CreateEntityRequest, but the underlying call is just a CreateRequest to create an email entity.  Please review the tags of the underlying jscript call's XML for more info.

This example is asynchronous, if you want to learn how to make JScript SOAP calls synchronously please visit this post: http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-jscript-to-access-soap-web.html

if (typeof (SDK) == "undefined")
   { SDK = { __namespace: true }; }
       //This will establish a more unique namespace for functions in this library. This will reduce the 
       // potential for functions to be overwritten due to a duplicate name when the library is loaded.
       SDK.SAMPLES = {
           _getServerUrl: function () {
               ///<summary>
               /// Returns the URL for the SOAP endpoint using the context information available in the form
               /// or HTML Web resource.
               ///</summary>
               var ServicePath = "/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web";
               var serverUrl = "";
               if (typeof GetGlobalContext == "function") {
                   var context = GetGlobalContext();
                   serverUrl = context.getServerUrl();
               }
               else {
                   if (typeof Xrm.Page.context == "object") {
                         serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl();
                   }
                   else
                   { throw new Error("Unable to access the server URL"); }
                   }
                  if (serverUrl.match(/\/$/)) {
                       serverUrl = serverUrl.substring(0, serverUrl.length - 1);
                   } 
                   return serverUrl + ServicePath;
               }, 
           CreateEntityRequest: function () {
               var requestMain = ""
               requestMain += "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
               requestMain += "  <s:Body>";
               requestMain += "    <Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services\" xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">";
               requestMain += "      <request i:type=\"a:CreateRequest\" xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts\">";
               requestMain += "        <a:Parameters xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic\">";
               requestMain += "          <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "            <b:key>Target</b:key>";
               requestMain += "            <b:value i:type=\"a:Entity\">";
               requestMain += "              <a:Attributes>";
               requestMain += "                <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:key>subject</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:value i:type=\"c:string\" xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">test subject</b:value>";
               requestMain += "                </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:key>description</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:value i:type=\"c:string\" xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"> test description</b:value>";
               requestMain += "                </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:key>to</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:value i:type=\"a:ArrayOfEntity\">";
               requestMain += "                    <a:Entity>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:Attributes>";
               requestMain += "                        <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                          <b:key>addressused</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                          <b:value i:type=\"c:string\" xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">mileyja@gmail.com</b:value>";
               requestMain += "                        </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                      </a:Attributes>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:EntityState i:nil=\"true\" />";
               requestMain += "                      <a:FormattedValues />";
               requestMain += "                      <a:Id>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</a:Id>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:LogicalName>activityparty</a:LogicalName>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:RelatedEntities />";
               requestMain += "                    </a:Entity>";
               requestMain += "                  </b:value>";
               requestMain += "                </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:key>from</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:value i:type=\"a:ArrayOfEntity\">";
               requestMain += "                    <a:Entity>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:Attributes>";
               requestMain += "                        <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                          <b:key>partyid</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                          <b:value i:type=\"a:EntityReference\">";
               requestMain += "                            <a:Id>ce08ee7f-4f36-e111-b6f6-0050569838d6</a:Id>";
               requestMain += "                            <a:LogicalName>systemuser</a:LogicalName>";
               requestMain += "                            <a:Name i:nil=\"true\" />";
               requestMain += "                          </b:value>";
               requestMain += "                        </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                      </a:Attributes>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:EntityState i:nil=\"true\" />";
               requestMain += "                      <a:FormattedValues />";
               requestMain += "                      <a:Id>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</a:Id>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:LogicalName>activityparty</a:LogicalName>";
               requestMain += "                      <a:RelatedEntities />";
               requestMain += "                    </a:Entity>";
               requestMain += "                  </b:value>";
               requestMain += "                </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:key>regardingobjectid</b:key>";
               requestMain += "                  <b:value i:type=\"a:EntityReference\">";
               requestMain += "                    <a:Id>ac946d36-3e41-e111-9d05-0050569838d6</a:Id>";
               requestMain += "                    <a:LogicalName>account</a:LogicalName>";
               requestMain += "                    <a:Name i:nil=\"true\" />";
               requestMain += "                  </b:value>";
               requestMain += "                </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "              </a:Attributes>";
               requestMain += "              <a:EntityState i:nil=\"true\" />";
               requestMain += "              <a:FormattedValues />";
               requestMain += "              <a:Id>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</a:Id>";
               requestMain += "              <a:LogicalName>email</a:LogicalName>";
               requestMain += "              <a:RelatedEntities />";
               requestMain += "            </b:value>";
               requestMain += "          </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
               requestMain += "        </a:Parameters>";
               requestMain += "        <a:RequestId i:nil=\"true\" />";
               requestMain += "        <a:RequestName>Create</a:RequestName>";
               requestMain += "      </request>";
               requestMain += "    </Execute>";
               requestMain += "  </s:Body>";
               requestMain += "</s:Envelope>";
               var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
               req.open("POST", SDK.SAMPLES._getServerUrl(), true)
               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");
               var successCallback = null;
               var errorCallback = null;
               req.onreadystatechange = function () { SDK.SAMPLES.CreateEntityResponse(req, successCallback, errorCallback); };
               req.send(requestMain);
           },
       CreateEntityResponse: function (req, successCallback, errorCallback) {
               ///<summary>
               /// Recieves the assign response
               ///</summary>
               ///<param name="req" Type="XMLHttpRequest">
               /// The XMLHttpRequest response
               ///</param>
               ///<param name="successCallback" Type="Function">
               /// The function to perform when an successfult response is returned.
               /// For this message no data is returned so a success callback is not really necessary.
               ///</param>
               ///<param name="errorCallback" Type="Function">
               /// The function to perform when an error is returned.
               /// This function accepts a JScript error returned by the _getError function
               ///</param>
               if (req.readyState == 4) {
               if (req.status == 200) {
               if (successCallback != null)
               { successCallback(); }
               }
               else {
                   errorCallback(SDK.SAMPLES._getError(req.responseXML));
               }
           }
       },
       _getError: function (faultXml) {
           ///<summary>
           /// Parses the WCF fault returned in the event of an error.
           ///</summary>
           ///<param name="faultXml" Type="XML">
           /// The responseXML property of the XMLHttpRequest response.
           ///</param>
           var errorMessage = "Unknown Error (Unable to parse the fault)";
           if (typeof faultXml == "object") {
               try {
                   var bodyNode = faultXml.firstChild.firstChild;
                   //Retrieve the fault node
                   for (var i = 0; i < bodyNode.childNodes.length; i++) {
                       var node = bodyNode.childNodes[i];
                       //NOTE: This comparison does not handle the case where the XML namespace changes
                       if ("s:Fault" == node.nodeName) {
                       for (var j = 0; j < node.childNodes.length; j++) {
                           var faultStringNode = node.childNodes[j];
                           if ("faultstring" == faultStringNode.nodeName) {
                               errorMessage = faultStringNode.text;
                               break;
                           }
                       }
                       break;
                   }
               }
           }
           catch (e) { };
        }
        return new Error(errorMessage);
     },
 __namespace: true
};

To understand how to parse the response please review my post on using the DOM parser.

http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/03/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-parsing.html

Now you can call the SDK.SAMPLES.CreateEntityRequest function from your form jscript handler.

Thats all there is to it!
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