I was asked this morning if I could use iFrames to pull a CRM report into Design Studio application. I remembered Martin's work earlier this year with his iFrame component. I installed it and put it on a panel. Martin's ConVista web site appeared in the Generic iFrame inside Design Studio so I was confident that the component was working in our Design Studio 1.5 environment.
When I replaced his URL with the URL from our CRM folks, all I got was a blue line. When I removed all the parameters from the URL line I got a CRM error message that I should contact the CRM administrator.
So I went back to basics and entered http://www.google.com and that failed as well.
Then I entered our company's website http://www.fst.com and that worked just like Martin's ConVista.
So I went back to the CRM URL inside my browser and stripped it down to
the server
which got redirected to
http://xxx.xx.xxxxx/CRMProd/main.aspx
which got redirected to
http://xxx.xx.xxxxx/CRMProd/main.aspx#883142512
the long number is a GUID or object ID that is null until the form is created.
reference: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1409787&seqNum=5
Because I can get the browser to let me into CRM and run the report, I don't think it is a credentials issue. Because CRM is redirecting the URL I am leaning in that direction.
I do not understand the SDK well enough yet to tell if the component handles redirection or if anyone has found and solved this issue.
As always, thank you.