Advanced Find and “In” condition

Advanced Find, in its current form, doesn’t have the capability to do a true “In” condition for text, datetime and numbers. For example this is how you would really do an “In” condition for a text field.

However the above condition would not return any results, as Advanced Find doesn’t allow separating valid values with a semi-colon. Query like the one above, has to be actually be done like the screenshot below.

This is actually clunky and involves too many clicks. The query capability in Advanced Find also differs to what the workflow condition offers. For e.g. you can do a true “In” condition in workflow editor. The workflow condition builder uses a similar UI to Advanced Find, but it also displays a “In” condition for text attribute, which is not displayed in the Advanced Find.

Bookmarklet Solution

In order to do a “in” condition, where the target values are separated by semi-colons, you can use the bookmarklet below.

Unminified code

var contentPanel = $('#crmContentPanel > iframe');
if (contentPanel && contentPanel.length > 0) {
	var targetFrame = contentPanel[0].contentWindow;
	var isFetchModified = false;
	targetFrame.ExecuteQuery();
	var xml = targetFrame.$get("FetchXml").value;
	var xmlDoc = $.parseXML(xml),
	$xml = $(xmlDoc);
	$xml.find('condition[value]').each(function (i, d) {
		var inCondition = '';
		var multipleValues = $(d).attr('value');
		if (multipleValues.indexOf(';') === -1)
			return;
		multipleValues.split(';').forEach(function (c) {
			inCondition += ('<value>' + c + '</value>');
		});
		$(d).attr('operator', 'in');
		$(d).removeAttr('value');
		$(d).html(inCondition);
		isFetchModified = true;
	});
	if (isFetchModified) {
		targetFrame.$get("FetchXml", $get("resultRender")).value = '<fetch version="1.0" output-format="xml-platform" mapping="logical" distinct="true">' + xmlDoc.documentElement.innerHTML + '</fetch>';
	}
	targetFrame.changeArea(targetFrame.ResultsPage);
	targetFrame.$get('resultRender').submit();
} else {
	alert('Cannot locate Advanced Find Frame');
}
void 0;

Minified code for bookmark bar

javascript:var contentPanel=$('#crmContentPanel > iframe');if(contentPanel&&contentPanel.length>0){var targetFrame=contentPanel[0].contentWindow;var isFetchModified=false;targetFrame.ExecuteQuery();var xml=targetFrame.$get("FetchXml").value;var xmlDoc=$.parseXML(xml),$xml=$(xmlDoc);$xml.find('condition[value]').each(function(i,d){var inCondition='';var multipleValues=$(d).attr('value');if(multipleValues.indexOf(';')===-1)
return;multipleValues.split(';').forEach(function(c){inCondition+=('<value>'+c+'</value>');});$(d).attr('operator','in');$(d).removeAttr('value');$(d).html(inCondition);isFetchModified=true;});if(isFetchModified){targetFrame.$get("FetchXml",$get("resultRender")).value='<fetch version="1.0" output-format="xml-platform" mapping="logical" distinct="true">'+xmlDoc.documentElement.innerHTML+'</fetch>';}
targetFrame.changeArea(targetFrame.ResultsPage);targetFrame.$get('resultRender').submit();}else{alert('Cannot locate Advanced Find Frame');}
void 0;

You basically continue to use the “equal” condition and then separate the valid values with semi-colon. Run the bookmarklet after that and the “equal” condition will be converted into a “in”. This currently works only for text fields. Datetime and number fields have additional format validations, hence it is not possible to use “;” to separate out the values.

I have tested this bookmarklet in CRM Online and CRM2015 with Firefox and Chrome.

Known Issues

A javascript error pops up before the results are displayed in Firefox. This can be ignored as the correct results are shown.