How do you force custom script refresh in your Model Driven apps?
I’m sure it’s sometimes OK to wait until the problem will solve itself, but if you delete a column that the script is referencing, the user will see an error.
That’s not a great experience.
Me, I’m using the Form.OnLoad event to compare the version defined in the form with a version declared in the JavaScript.
For example, the following file is added as a WebResource to my solution:
var ECSLibrary = window.ECSLibrary || {};
(function () {
const currentVersion = "0.1.1.3";
this.OnFormOpen = function (executionContext, versionNumber) {
const formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
if (currentVersion !== versionNumber) {
formContext.ui.setFormNotification("The form is outdated. Please refresh the page using Ctrl+F5 buttons.", "WARNING");
}
}
}).call(ECSLibrary);
And associated with the form’s OnLoad using the current configuration:
Every time I’m making changes, I increase the version number in both places. If the user has old, cached script version, the numbers will differ and a warning is displayed on top of the page.
And if you are using Dataverse DevTools, and writing code in typescript it's very similar:
const currentVersion = "0.1.1.3";
export const OnLoad = (executionContext: Xrm.Events.EventContext, versionNumber:string): void =>
const formContext: Xrm.Idapps_externalcloudservice = executionContext.getFormContext();
if (currentVersion !== versionNumber) {
formContext.ui.setFormNotification("The form is outdated. Please refresh the page using Ctrl+F5 buttons.", "WARNING","_formVerWarning");
}
};
