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 Posted 3/27/2006 4:22:41 PM |
| | | I was reading through the c360 sdk training guide and found that the lookup control can search for data from external data sources. The lookup control allows the user to look for a CRM record. Developers can specify which CRM entities to be searched, as well as from external data sources. This control can handle multiple entity types in the same lookup. The items in the lookup are defined in LookupItemCollection as LookupItems. I did not find any property that allows binding to an external datasource on this control. The AllowedObjectTypes is the only property that I could find which can bind data to the control. Am I missing something? Could someone please tell me how this can be implemented? Thanks Vishnu |
| | Posted 3/28/2006 6:05:46 PM |
| | | Vishnu, I will ask our trainer about the statement you quoted because I believe it is incorrect.
Jeremie Desautels VP, Product Marketing c360 Solutions |
| | Posted 3/28/2006 6:34:49 PM |
| | | Jeremie, I thought so. Would this feature be supported in any of your future versions of the SDK? Vishnu |
| | Posted 3/30/2006 3:37:33 AM |
| | This is very much along the lines of the question I asked in an earlier post, regarding customizing the lookup form to only show items filtered by context, i.e. only show contacts belonging to a currently viewed account e.t.c.
http://www.c360.com/Forums/Topic61-8-1.aspx
It would of course be ideal if one could simply populate the Lookup form from an external source, like the training guide suggests and vishnua has noted.
Jeremie, any word on this feature? Not planned, planned, in progress, almost finished, shipping tomorrow 
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Henrik Nielsen |
| | Posted 3/30/2006 8:36:46 AM |
| | The lookup control allows the user to look for a CRM record. Developers can specify which CRM entities to be searched, as well as from external data sources. This statement in our training manual is incorrect. I believe what this really is referring to is a property of our Picklist / MulitPicklist controls, where you can either specify a entity / attribute (of type picklist), or define your own items that the user can select from. But as of today, our lookup control is used to lookup records from CRM of the type you define (by setting the AllowedObjectTypes). The filtered lookup I would believe is slated for the next release (after the March 31 release) but don't hold me to that We will however take your idea of fetching external data into the Lookup into consideration.
Kevin Eichelberger
Pre-Sales Engineer / Product Specialist
c360 Solutions, Inc. |
| | Posted 3/30/2006 6:21:02 PM |
| | Henrik Nielsen (3/30/2006)
Jeremie, any word on this feature? Not planned, planned, in progress, almost finished, shipping tomorrow Planned. The next release date has not been scheduled yet but expect it sometime around the end of Q2-06.
Jeremie Desautels VP, Product Marketing c360 Solutions |
| | Posted 3/31/2006 3:52:02 AM |
| | Hi Kevin and Jeremie,
thanks, this is great news - that feature will certainly be much appreciated, looking forward to seeing it.
regards,
Henrik
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Henrik Nielsen |
| | Posted 3/5/2008 12:41:28 PM |
| | | Was this feature ever released? Although the text in the toolkit training guide still states that it is possible to use external data sources I could not find any way of doing that. Regards, Rosa |
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