Over the weekend I spent time making comparison between CRM Online and On-premise. I the process I picked up some funnies when it comes to JQuery and CRM 2015 Online. I had the libraries an all that on the solution.
Scenario
I wanted to check if the current user in “System Administrator” using Jscript. The code below was happy on premise but failed online (here : $.ajax). See full code below
function CheckUserRole(rolename) {
var currentUserRoles = Xrm.Page.context.getUserRoles();
for (var i = 0; i < currentUserRoles.length; i++) {
var userRoleId = currentUserRoles[i];
var userRoleName = GetRoleName(userRoleId);
if (userRoleName == "rolename") {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
function GetRoleName(roleId) {
var serverUrl = location.protocol + "//" + location.host + "/" + Xrm.Page.context.getOrgUniqueName();
var odataSelect = serverUrl + "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc" + "/" + "RoleSet?$filter=RoleId eq guid'" + roleId + "'";
var roleName = null;
$.ajax(
{
type: "GET",
async: false,
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
datatype: "json",
url: odataSelect,
beforeSend: function (XMLHttpRequest) { XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json"); },
success: function (data, textStatus, XmlHttpRequest) {
roleName = data.d.results[0].Name;
},
error: function (XmlHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { alert('OData Select Failed: ' + textStatus + errorThrown + odataSelect); }
}
);
return roleName;
}
Solution
The code below did the job
function UserHasRole(roleName)
{
var serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl();
var oDataEndpointUrl = serverUrl + "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/";
oDataEndpointUrl += "RoleSet?$top=1&$filter=Name eq '" + roleName + "'";
var service = GetRequestObject();
if (service != null)
{
service.open("GET", oDataEndpointUrl, false);
service.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-Width", "XMLHttpRequest");
service.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json, text/javascript, */*");
service.send(null);
var requestResults = eval('(' + service.responseText + ')').d;
if (requestResults != null) // && requestResults.length == 1)
{
var role = requestResults.results[0];
var id = role.RoleId;
var currentUserRoles = Xrm.Page.context.getUserRoles();
for (var i = 0; i < currentUserRoles.length; i++)
{
var userRole = currentUserRoles[i];
if (GuidsAreEqual(userRole, id))
{
return true;
}
}
}
}
return false;
}
function GetRequestObject()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
return new window.XMLHttpRequest;
}
else
{
try
{
return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");
}
catch (ex)
{
return null;
}
}
}
function GuidsAreEqual(guid1, guid2)
{
var isEqual = false;
if (guid1 == null || guid2 == null)
{
isEqual = false;
}
else
{
isEqual = guid1.replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase() == guid2.replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase();
}
return isEqual;
}
Credit to :
http://www.infinite-x.net/2010/11/16/retreiving-user-roles-in-crm-2011/