With the new version of CRM this javascript code, need to be amened to remove the unsupported API, as well some addtional changes to be able to work also with CHROME.
below my working version,
/*
* Author: Matthew Hunt
* Changes: Philippe Guarino
* File: vsi_DownloadTemplate.js
* Date: 22/09/2021
* Project: CRM USA
* Description: DownloadTemplate() allows the user to download a document template
* via a button on the ribbon.
*
* @param entitytypecode: the type code of the entity. In the ribbon workbench set a
* CRM parameter with value PrimaryEntityTypeCode. ex: 1063
*
* @param templateid: the id for the template you want to download. I had to go to
* the database to find this and pass it as a string parameter in the ribbon workbench.
* For example:
* SELECT DocumentTemplateId, Name FROM dbo.DocumentTemplateBase WHERE Name Like '%Quote%';
* returns something like 4AB391A4-D247-E711-80D3-005056914EA2
* Unforunatly, anytime the template is updated, you'll probably have to get the new id.
*
* @param templatetype: the code for the template type. Pass this value in the ribbon
* workbench as a int param. ex: 9940 is a documenttemplate
*
* @param filename: the resulting name of the file that will be downloaded to the users
* computer. Pass this value in the ribbon workbench as a string param. ex: Quote.docx
*
*/
function DownloadTemplate(entitytypecode, templateid, templatetype, filename, formContext)
{
// var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext(); // get formContext
// retrieve the entity id from the current page
var entityid = new Array();
entityid.push(formContext.data.entity.getId());
// try and make a request for the document template
try
{
// clear the page of any previous errors
formContext.ui.clearFormNotification("docerror");
// the path that will be used to retrieve the word template
var globalContext = Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext();
var funcpath = globalContext.getClientUrl() + "/_grid/print/print_data.aspx";;
// open the request to create the template
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("POST", funcpath, true);
req.responseType = "arraybuffer";
req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8");
req.setRequestHeader("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
// on completion, run the bellow function
req.onreadystatechange = function ()
{
// request complete
if (this.readyState == 4)
{
req.onreadystatechange = null;
// check if we got back a 200 from the request
if (this.status >= 200 && this.status <= 299)
{
// add the download url to an a tag and then click the a tag
// to download the document
var mimetype = (2 === 2) ? "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" : "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";
var blob = new Blob([req.response],
{
type: mimetype
});
var dloadurl = (window.URL ? URL : webkitURL).createObjectURL(blob);
var a = document.createElement("a");
// if ie, because ie sucks
if (navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob)
{
navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, filename);
// else a browser that doesn't suck
}
else
{
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.style = "display: none";
a.href = dloadurl;
a.download = filename;
a.click();
URL.revokeObjectURL(dloadurl);
}
}
}
};
// compile the data to send with the request
var formdata = "exportType=MergeWordTemplate&selectedRecords=" + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(entityid)) +
"&associatedentitytypecode=" + entitytypecode + "&TemplateId=" + templateid + "&templatetype=" + templatetype;
// make the request to create the template
req.send(formdata);
}
catch (err)
{
PrintError(err.message);
}
}
/*
* PrintError() is a helper method to display any errors to the user.
*/
function PrintError(msg)
{
Xrm.Page.ui.setFormNotification("An Error occurred generating the word document, please contact support if the issue persists. " + msg, "ERROR", "docerror");
}
