Adding LinkedIn Contact Searches

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Adding LinkedIn Contact Searches

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Team Blog — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:11:02 GMT

LinkedIn is fairly popular business networking tool that allows you make connections and take advantage

re: Adding LinkedIn Contact Searches

fadam — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:54:44 GMT

Exported the ISV config but there is no Contact Element. We are vanilla at this point so I have little context as to where to place your script.

re: Adding LinkedIn Contact Searches

dbenton — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:24:52 GMT

Hi, Thanks for a great start!

I'm trying to narrow the result set by search current and past companies. I have the below working except for the crmForm.parentcustomerid.DataValue. The result appears to be the ID (not surprised) instead of the actual name. How do I get the company name so I can insert it into the search string?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

var last='&lname=';

var first='&fname=';

var cpsearchtype='&currentCompany=cp';

var company='&company=';

var FName= crmForm.firstname.DataValue;

var LName = crmForm.lastname.DataValue;

var Employer = crmForm.parentcustomerid.DataValue;

var LinkUrl='http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=';

LinkUrl+=last;

LinkUrl+=LName;

LinkUrl+=first;

LinkUrl+=FName;

LinkUrl+=cpsearchtype;

LinkUrl+=company;

LinkUrl+=Employer;

window.open(LinkUrl);

re: Adding LinkedIn Contact Searches

dbenton — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:41:58 GMT

Hi,

I found this works better in the OnLoad event of the form.

linkedinUrl = function ()

{

var ParentAccountValue = new Array();

var url = "http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=";

ParentAccountValue = crmForm.all.parentcustomerid.DataValue;

if (ParentAccountValue != undefined) {

//Treat the lookup object as an array with the following properties: id, name, type, typename

url = url + "&lname=" + crmForm.all.lastname.DataValue;

url = url + "&fname=" + crmForm.all.firstname.DataValue;

url = url + "&currentCompany=cp&company=" + ParentAccountValue[0].name

}

else {

//This won't prevent the user from accessing the site, but let's them know that the search will be more

//meaningful with a Parent Account specified

alert('You should have a Parent Account selected before performing this search!');

url = url + "&lname=" + crmForm.all.lastname.DataValue;

url = url + "&fname=" + crmForm.all.firstname.DataValue;

}

// 'width=450px,height=500px,menubar=no,status=no,toolbar=no'

window.open(url);

return;

}