Tip #706: Passing arguments to the webresource does not work after authentication

We are all mortals, after all. I just witnessed a rare occassion when even Tanguy “The XRM Toolbox” Touzard needed a helping hand from none other than Andrii “Khohol” Butenko.

Tanguy

I’m working on a really simple integration where an external app needs to open a webresource with parameters passed in data url argument:

https://qwerty.crm4.dynamics.com/WebResources/foo_/cti/index.html?data=phonenumber%3d0123456789%26service%3dadv

as mentioned in the SDK, parameters are encoded in data url argument. The problem is if I open this url before being authenticated to CRM Online, I’m redirected to the authentication page then redirected to the requested page. Problem is that the url is altered, as the “?” character is replaced with %3F

https://qwerty.crm4.dynamics.com/WebResources/foo_/cti/index.html%3Fdata=phonenumber%3d0123456789%26service%3dadv

Thus, the page does not see the arguments passed in data.

Is this a known problem?

Andrii

I experienced the same problem and found a workaround: just add the following script to onload event:

var params = GetGlobalContext()
             .getQueryStringParameters();

if (typeof params.data == "undefined") {
  var currentUrl = window.location.href;

  if (currentUrl.indexOf("%3F") != -1) {
    currentUrl = currentUrl.replace("%3F", "?");
    window.location.href = currentUrl;
    return;
  }
}