Change Url of Left Navigation Pane Link at runtime in CRM 2011

You can change the Url of Left Navigation Pane link dynamically.

To explain this i take an scenerio that i have a entity, in this i have an custom left navigation pane link which loads an external URL, here i consider that as Google. Now dynamically i want to change that URL to my Blog URL. We can achieve this by the below code:


the function loadIsvArea(Mscrm.CrmUri.create(iframeUrl),false) is responsible for achieving this.

//Get all navigation items for this form.

var items = Xrm.Page.ui.navigation.items.get();

//Go through the list of navigation items.

for (var i in items)

{

  //Get the current navigation item in the for loop

  var item = items[i];

  //Get the label of the current navigation item

  var itemLabel = item.getLabel();

 

  //Check if this is the navigation item we are looking for using the label name.

  if(itemLabel == "Custom Link")

  {

    //Get the current navigation item id.

    var areaId = item.getId();

 //Get navigation element by using the id.

    var navElement = document.getElementById(areaId);

    //Make sure that the navigation element is not empty or null

    if (navElement != null && navElement != undefined)

    {

    //Create the url to use in the navigation link

    var iframeUrl = encodeURI("http://mscrmessentialblog.blogspot.com/");

    //Create a function that is run when the navigation link is clicked.

 navElement.onclick = function ()

    {

      //Start by creating the area, this is where the url looses "/report/path" from the path.

      loadIsvArea(Mscrm.CrmUri.create(iframeUrl),false);

      //Get the iframe in the navigation area.

      var navIframeObject = document.getElementById(areaId+"AreaFrame");

      //Set the source for the iframe again with the correct url.

      navIframeObject.src = iframeUrl;

    };

    }

  }

}

This results as: