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You may have a scenario where you have a table on your webpage and you would like to add an event through JavaScript to capture when a user double-clicks on a row. Let’s say we have an HTML table, like below: Code: Now, let’s add click event to this. Let’s say when a user clicks, we want to display the row number they are clicking on. Add a reference to … Continue reading Double-Click and Click Table Row using JQuery
Let’s say you are running a React app, which you started using npm start: It is running in a browser, but closing the browser does not stop the app: To stop this from running, in the command prompt, type CTRL-C. You will get the prompt to Terminate batch job: Type Y and the app will stop running: You can now run npm start again if you want to relaunch the … Continue reading How to Stop a React App from Running in Windows
One of the benefits of using Dynamics CRM is the ability to write client side JavaScript code to perform actions on the user interface. Let’s go through an example of how to do this. In this example, we will show a message box when a user changes a value on a field. We will do this on the Website field on the Accounts form: Firstly, edit the Accounts form to display the developer view: … Continue reading Dynamics CRM Creating and Debugging JavaScript Code
In this example, we will create a Hello World application for Node.js. Let’s start with a simple example. I have installed Node.js on Windows and have a Node directory in C:\ drive. In command prompt, cd to this directory. In that directory is a JavaScript file that writes out a console log “Hello World”: To run the file, enter: node HelloWorld.js Hello World is returned by Node. Now create a new … Continue reading Node.js Hello World on Windows
To create a D3 “Hello World”, do the following. Go to the d3js.org website and find the latest D3 version: Copy the link to the latest release: <script src=”https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js”></script> Create an HTML page and add the following code, with the link above: <!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset=”utf-8″> <body> <script src=”https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js”></script> <script> d3.select(“body”).append(“span”) .text(“Hello world”); </script> Run the page:
In your JavaScript code, you may receive this error when running jQuery code: $ is not defined To resolve this, add the following code to JavaScript before the jQuery call is made: if (typeof($) === ‘undefined’) { $ = parent.$; jQuery = parent.jQuery; }
console.log allows for developers to write log events to certain web browsers. Here we will do a Hello World example using Chrome. First, create a new html document, and add the code: Open the document in Chrome and select F12 to open the developer tools. Go to the Console tab. You will now see the output: This logging can be useful in troubleshooting code. You can additionally write commands directly … Continue reading JavaScript console.log Hello World
There are different ways to define classes in JavaScript. Let’s look at some examples. Let’s say you want to define a class for a Customer. The customer contains attributes such as: First Name Last Name Email Phone Number The Customer class also contains methods such as GetCustomer to get the customer information. Now, to create a customer class, we can do the following. Note we are creating a function to … Continue reading Classes in JavaScript
In Dynamics CRM, you have the ability to hook onto the OnLoad and OnSave events of an entity. We will go through a simple example. Open the entity in Customizations. Let’s do this with Accounts. Go to Form Properties: Under UI Events, you will see the two options for OnLoad and OnSave. Let’s start with adding a new JavaScript library. Select Add: And then New: Enter a name and select JScript: … Continue reading Dynamics CRM JavaScript OnSave and OnLoad
Here we will go throgh the steps to upgrade your Node server. First, open PowerShell as Administrator. We will check the version of the server currently installed, with the command: node -v Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force Then run: npm install -g npm-windows-upgrade Next, run: npm-windows-upgrade Select a version: You will see: And once complete: