Getting and Setting a Dynamics CRM Field in JavaScript

To get and set a Dynamics 365 field, first find out the field name. Open the form and find the field, for example on the leads form, the topic:

Double click the field and see what the Name is, in this case “subject”:

function UpdateField() {

var s = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("subject").getValue();
alert(s);

Xrm.Page.getAttribute("subject").setValue("Hello World");

var s = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("subject").getValue();
alert(s);

}

When this runs we see first the original topic:

Then the new topic:

Field is updated:

This can also be used to check if the field is empty.

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