Chapter 7. Extended UI Manipulation

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Showing or hiding form elements
  • Formatting fields
  • Creating a rating gauge field
  • Flagging a section for the user
  • Adding a contact picture
  • Adding an account logo
  • Marking accounts for review
  • Dynamic form elements

Introduction

This chapter will review some of the concepts covered previously, and introduce you to some advanced ways of manipulating the user interface. We will be focusing mostly on user experience by creating a few recipes in which we will hide and show various parts of the form; we will work with pictures and other ways of presenting and flagging specific information to the users.

This chapter assumes that the reader has a prior knowledge of customizing Dynamics CRM, yet is completely ...

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