Field Masking for International Phone Numbers

CRM 2011: Field Masking for International Phone Numbers

Recently I used code from a blog by Xavier Vargas called "CRM Field Masking with JQuery" to handle the field masking for the telephone fields in our development system. The function works great and is very flexible being able to use in all types of fields for all types of formats.

I wanted to implement it on a current project for the telephone fields but was unable to since the telephone field had to also handle multiple international telephone formats. That’s when I got to thinking, how could I modify the field masking to handle domestic and multiple international telephone formats all within one telephone field?

After thinking for a bit, it seemed pretty easy. I had already turned the state and the country fields into a drop-down using code from the article CRM 2011: Making the state field a dropdown. Depending on the country I selected, I populated the telephone field with the respective country's phone format and populated it with the dial-out number and the country code.

NOTE: I also changed the JQuery Mask function so that I didn’t have ‘9’ as the mask value since 9 is used in country codes. You can choose what you want to replace ‘9.'

Hide Tab Based on Picklist Value

CRM 2011: How to Hide a Tab Based on Picklist Value

Recently I ran into an issue with a piece of code I wrote for a new picklist field I added to an already existing entity to hide/show a tab depending on the value of the picklist. Here is a copy of the original code:

function ShowHideSection(PicklistFieldName, TabName)
{
    Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(TabName).setVisible(false);
    ////Check if Picklist value equals Yes, if so show the Tab
    if(Xrm.Page.getAttribute(PicklistFieldName).getSelectedOption().text == 'Yes') 

       {

       Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(TabName).setVisible(true);

       }

       else

       {

       Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(TabName).setVisible(false);

       }
}

While this code worked for all the new records I began creating, it did not work for the old records that existed before I created the new picklist field. When I created the new variable, I set its default value to No, but the records that existed before I added this new picklist were all set to unassigned (null). When I opened up an old record, I got the following error message:

There was an error with this field’s customized event.

Field: window

Event: onload

Error “Xrm.Page.getAttribute(…).getSelectedOption().text is null or not an object

Well this is a problem and something I did not account for!

I rewrote the code and declared the fields equal to a variable to handle checking for the unassigned value.

Here is the new code:

function ShowHideSection(PicklistFieldName, TabName)

{

     Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(TabName).setVisible(false);
     var zPicklistField = Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get(PicklistFieldName);
 

     if(zPicklistField.getValue() != null)
     {
         if(zPicklistField.getSelectedOption().text == 'Yes')
         {
         Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(TabName).setVisible(true);
         }
         else
         {
         Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(TabName).setVisible(false);
         }
     }
}

I hope this code can be of same use! Please let me know if you find a way to use it.

Thank you MDodd73 for your help.