Showing Dynamics CRM 2015 out of box views on HTML pages hosted outside the CRM

Question

I am trying to create a portal where we can access the records in crm. This portal will be hosted outside the CRM as a web application and not as a web resource in crm.

In one of the pages i like to show the out of the box crm view. So i used a html page with an iframe in it .i specified the source of the iframe to crm view below is my iframe code

Now when i open this html page directly via my web application the iframe i am getting the below error

"This content can’t be shown in a frame

There is supposed to be some content here, but the publisher doesn’t allow it to be displayed in a frame. This is to help protect the security of any information you might enter into this site.

Try this

Open this in a new window

"

But if i create a web resource in crm with the same html page i can see the view with no issues.

If i paste the below url directly in the browser i can also see the view

http://xrmdroid:5555/XRMfinsights/main.aspx?etn=opportunity&pagetype=entitylist&viewid={00000000-0000-0000-00AA-000010003001}&viewtype=1039&navbar=off&cmdbar=false

But i am unable to use this in an iframe in a html page in an application .Is it possible to use url addressable form and views in application hosted outside crm ?

Thanks in advance

ravi sagi

Answer 1

No I don't think this will work.

Looks like Microsoft have setup their content to not display in an iframe for starters. I suppose there is a chance you may be able to find a way to work around this.

I cant find anything official on this for your exact situation, but these MSDN quotes seem somewhat relevant:

Open forms, views, dialogs and reports with a URL

Outside the application, where pages do not have access to the Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm function, use window.open or a link to open a specific record or form for an entity. The entire application will open for any of the Updated entities.

Displaying an entity form within an IFrame embedded in another entity form is not supported.

Its also worth bearing in mind that if you do get this to work the users will require CRM logins - which could be an issue depending on the sort of portal you are trying to build.