Looking to create a completely external portal using only HTML5, JS, and CSS to show CRM 2011 data. It does not look like I can use REST or SOAP because they cannot authenticate externally. Does anyone know how I would do this?
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Looking to create a completely external portal using only HTML5, JS, and CSS to show CRM 2011 data. It does not look like I can use REST or SOAP because they cannot authenticate externally. Does anyone know how I would do this?
Thanks!
To do this, your OrganizationData.svc service would need to be externally accessible, and it would need to function without authentication (or, your authentication would need to happen within your javascript – where the end user would be able to read your source code). Either way is not a wise idea, since all of your data would be visible to the world!
If you are only dealing with internal authenticated users, read up on the oDATA endpoint.
If you want to deal with external and/or unauthenticated users, you’ll need to find another way to do this that does all of the data filtering & authorization control you need.