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    <p>Have a custom JS function that gets called when a ribbon button is pressed in the context of a form. In my custom JS function I need to know what form field had the focus just prior to the ribbon button being pressed. I've tried 2 ways (below) without success. Is there any way to do this reliably?</p> <p>Way #1</p> <p>According to <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309332.aspx" rel="nofollow">this</a>, I can get the control I want passed as a parameter to my JS. I've tried using both <code>PrimaryControlId</code> and <code>PrimaryControl</code> parameters.</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;JavaScriptFunction FunctionName="OnCustomBtnFunc" Library="$webresource:myJSfile.js"&gt; &lt;CrmParameter Value="PrimaryControlId" /&gt; &lt;CrmParameter Value="PrimaryControl" /&gt; &lt;/JavaScriptFunction&gt; </code></pre> <p>For both, I get an object passed to OnCustomBtnFunc() but it does not seem to enable me to determine which form control had the focus prior to the ribbon button being pressed.</p> <p>Way #2</p> <p>I call <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg327828.aspx#BKMK_getCurrentControl" rel="nofollow">Xrm.Page.ui.getCurrentControl()</a>. This works for form fields of some types but not others e.g. if it is a string field it works but I get null for a lookup.</p>
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    1. COWould it be possible to have `onstatuschanged` or whatever it's called, connected to every field so that when your user clicks on the ribbon, the previous field looses focus and fires the event? Then, you can store THAT element's id. Haven't tried that - just speculating.
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    2. CO@Konrad tried that. problem is the "onchange" event (assume this is the one you mean as its the only OOTB event for form fields) is not called when the ribbon button is pressed!. The focus stays in the field. I can change focus to an arbitrary field so the onchange event of the current field does fire. problem then is if the field validation detects an invalid value, i want the ribbon button code to be aware that this happened. I can try doing it setting flags etc etc but it's all very kludgy!
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    3. COSorry buddy - that's all I've got. If you've tried that already, I'll be of no further use to you. Maybe you could register a control's id upon the validation fault or something like that. Do tell how you did, because next month I'll be doing some GUI work myself, probably weeping over the same issues. Also, just to be clear - you'll be coding it in JavaScript => it **will** be kludgy. :)
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