- not supported in case you need technical support from MS
- not supported for upgrades
- possibly can break your CRM

That being said…”not supported” doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Here’s a link to an article by Nishant Rana that shows how to do some customization to the dialog using the document object model (DOM) in JavaScript. http://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/customizing-convert-lead-dialog-box-in-crm-4/

Cheers – Richard

Money and Integer attributes work together OK, so I don’t think that’s the problem. I just did an example that I think is the same as yours at least conceptually. Here’s a self-documenting JavaScript snippet that I put in the onChange of Estimated Revenue (schema name estimatedvalue) and called from the onChange events of the custom fields with the crmForm.all.estimatedvalue.FireOnChange(); trick, but it works just as well if you put this code in the onChange event of each contributing field:

//estimatedvalue is the built-in attribute with display name ‘Estimated Revenue’
//new_upfront is a custom attribute of type money
//new_duration is a custom attribute of type integer
//new_rate is a custom attribute of type money

crmForm.all.estimatedvalue.DataValue =
crmForm.all.new_upfront.DataValue +
(crmForm.all.new_duration.DataValue * crmForm.all.new_rate.DataValue);

I bet it’s a syntax problem or something along those lines. Give it a shot and let me know how it works out!

In our company, we have a lot of reoccurring revenue, so I added Length of Contract and Revenue/Term attributes to the opportunity entity. In addition, most projects have an upfront amount as well. I used created scripts in the onChange event for these fields to compute the Total Revenue, as follows:

total revenue = one time + (length x monthly rate)

This isn’t working, though. When I fill in the fields, nothing happens. When I save, nothing happens. Is there some incompatability between the integer type and the money type?

-Jason

Thanks for the note, and by all means use it/refer to it on your blog and extend with examples. I’ll do the same here if you share the examples with me. What’s your blog, btw?

Richard

It is a great and usefull post!