Question

I know, I know, “JS” in JSON and “j” in jQuery stands for JavaScript. Feel free to edit the title if you find a better formulation.

When I type in the URL “http://beep-beep” in my browser, I get a nicely formatted JSON file containing “{sound: ‘beep’, occurence: 2}”, meaning the web service works as supposed to. Then I thought to myself: let’s do that in CRM, in onLoad function for the creation of an entity. So, I’m trying to execute the following, copied directly from the SDK.

alert("Commence.");

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "http://beep-beep",
  data: "{}",
  contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
  dataType: "json",
  success: function (msg) {
    alert("Yippi!");
  }
});

alert("Finish.");

However, the code crashes telling me that “$” is not a defined symbol. Isn’t jQuery an integral part of CRM JavaScript engine?! What am I missing here? Is there an easier way to consume a JSON feed?

Answer 1

Have you included the jquery lib? Are you having the same issue as this… Object Expected error, javascript, jQuery