Create a button on your form

This is an example on how to create a button on the form, based on a former idea of Cornel. First of all we need to create a nvarchar attribute and put it on the form where we want our button. I assume that everybody knows how to create an attribute and put in on the form, so i won't talk about this.
In this example my attribute's schema name is new_button. Here is the code:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// This is how we call the button, what we see
crmForm.all.new_button.DataValue = "Ok";
// We could align it a bit
crmForm.all.new_button.style.textAlign = "center";
crmForm.all.new_button.vAlign = "middle";
//we make the mouse look as a hand when we're moving over
crmForm.all.new_button.style.cursor = "hand";
crmForm.all.new_button.style.backgroundColor = "#CADFFC";
crmForm.all.new_button.style.color = "#FF0000";
crmForm.all.new_button.style.borderColor = "#330066";
crmForm.all.new_button.style.fontWeight = "bold";
crmForm.all.new_button.contentEditable = false;
//we attach some events in order to make it look nice :)
crmForm.all.new_button.attachEvent("onmousedown",color1);
crmForm.all.new_button.attachEvent("onmouseup",color2);
crmForm.all.new_button.attachEvent("onmouseover",color3);
crmForm.all.new_button.attachEvent("onmouseleave",color4);
function color3() {
crmForm.all.new_button.style.backgroundColor = "#6699FF";
}
function color4() {
crmForm.all.new_button.style.backgroundColor = "CADFFC";
}
function color1() {
crmForm.all.new_button.style.color = "000099";
}
function color2() {
crmForm.all.new_button.style.color = "FF0000";
}
//here we attach what we want our button do
crmForm.all.new_button.attachEvent("onclick",someFunction);
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Here is how the button looks like:




I didn't define here the "someFunction", i leave it up to you. First time when i used such a button was to add product to a quote without click-ing on "New Quote Product", calling a Web Service...

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