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One can customize a Microsoft CRM form using javascript with lots of ease.

Navigate to Go To ->Settings ->Customization
Select Customization Entities
Double Click on the entity that is needed for customization.
Click on Forms and Views and then double click on Form
Select Form Properties from Common Task panel.
It will open up the Form Properties dialog box with OnLoad and OnSave events.
Select any event and click on edit.

It will open up the event detail properties dialog box where one can enter the java script for customization. The code will be called when the event is triggered.

Following are few examples of customizing the Account form at Page Load

Change the Fore color of Label:

// it will change the Account Number Label to green bold

crmForm.all.accountnumber_c.innerHTML = "<font color='green'><b>" + crmForm.all.accountnumber_c.innerText + "</b></font>";

Change the background color of the form

document.all.tab0.style.backgroundColor = 'white';//General tab

document.all.tab1.style.backgroundColor = 'white';//Details tab

document.all.tab2.style.backgroundColor = 'white';//Administration tab

document.all.tab3.style.backgroundColor = 'white'; //Notes tab

Disable a form

document.body.disabled = true;

Hide an entire row

var accountname = crmForm.all.name;

while ((accountname.parentNode != null) && (accountname.tagName.toLowerCase() != "tr"))

{
accountname = accountname.parentNode;
}

if (accountname.tagName.toLowerCase () == "tr")

{
accountname.style.display = "none";
}

Retrieving the text of a lookup control

var list = crmForm.all.<lookupfield>.DataValue;

if (list [0] != null)

{
var theSelectedText = list [0].name;

}

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Author: Pradip Shukla

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