Auto fill in text in search box on gridview in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Question

I have a button on the ribbon of the contactgrid in microsoft dynamics crm 2011. When I press the button, I'm reading an id from an external device after that i want this id to be paste into the searchbox. So my gridview will be filter automatically on the id read from that device.

But how can I call the searchbox with javascript?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe you can access it w JQuery by its html id, like this:

var ctrl = $("#crmGrid_findCriteria");

It is a text input, so you should be able to access it like this:

$("#crmGrid_findCriteria").text('some_text');

I discovered the ID of the control using the IE Developer Tools (F12)