CRM 2011: Set Due Date to today and Due Time to 08:00 AM by default

Hello everyone…

Recently I was asked a question:
Can we load current date and time (8 AM default) to Due field in activities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011?
I got the solution… yeah!!

For this you need to edit the activity (Task/Phone Call/Fax/Email/etc.) entity and put a JavaScript in OnLoad event of the entity form.

My First try was to access both date and time through HTML DOM with very easy JavaScript code…

document.getElementById("dateInput").value = currentDate;
document.getElementById("timeInput").value = "08:00";

But, it created a problem; when the date field was edited by the user, the time would change to 00:00 by default. I searched many blogs and finally found an attribute called scheduledend which can be accessed through Xrm.Page object and getAttribute() method. Just need to set a JavaScript date and you have the values desired in Due Date and Time fields.

Here is the script I wrote to populate date and time:

var d = new Date();
var date = new Date(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate(), 8, 0, 0, 0);
Xrm.Page.getAttribute("scheduledend").setValue(date);

Here is the result when a new activity is created:

Cheers!!
Rikin Shah.