Using JavaScript to assign a record

A while back, a user on the Microsoft Dynamics forums asked how to assign a record using JavaScript. Here’s the code, remember to update the userid and recordid variables.

var header = GenerateAuthenticationHeader();



var userid = "838975f4-029c-de11-9693-0003ffc4c746";

var recordid = "9721c859-d185-dc11-ac34-000c291d8da3";

var target = "TargetOwnedAccount";



var xml = "" +

"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +

"<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">" +

header +

"  <soap:Body>" +

"    <Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices\">" +

"      <Request xsi:type=\"AssignRequest\">" +

"        <Target xsi:type=\""+ target +"\">" +

"          <EntityId>"+ recordid +"</EntityId>" +

"        </Target>" +

"        <Assignee>" +

"          <PrincipalId xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/CoreTypes\">"+ userid +"</PrincipalId>" +

"          <Type xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/CoreTypes\">User</Type>" +

"        </Assignee>" +

"      </Request>" +

"    </Execute>" +

"  </soap:Body>" +

"</soap:Envelope>" +

"";



var xmlHttpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");



xmlHttpRequest.Open("POST", "/mscrmservices/2007/CrmService.asmx", false);

xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/Execute");

xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");

xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", xml.length);

xmlHttpRequest.send(xml);



var resultXml = xmlHttpRequest.responseXML;

(I pasted it here so that I can find it easily in future).