Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Scripting Cookbook

Working with text fields

In this recipe, we will be retrieving information from the Phone field of a Contact entity. We can work in the same fashion with any other default text fields on any entity form, or with custom fields.

Getting ready

If you have a solution created from the previous chapter, open that solution. If not, create a new solution package. We will be saving all configurations as part of a solution package.

How to do it...

In order to associate our script with a field on the Contact form, we will follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Settings | Solutions.
2. Open the previously created solution package or create a new one.
3. Select Entities, and click on Add Existing to add the Contact entity, as shown in the following screenshot:
4. Scroll down until ...