Hi Penny,

I've reproduced that behaviour here. I'd put this one down more as ambiguity than anything else.

When you're checking record.fieldname, it's returning the translated value for the select (the green values in the code below). That field is localised. You can confirm this by using Fiddler to inspect the result of the SData request on the Company entity:

System Administrator
2013-07-23T11:15:00+0100
Summer ball
System Administrator

When you try to set the value of a select using value() or val(), it's setting the value for the field, which is in effect the CRM caption code. These are the yellow values in the code. Here's what it's trying to set, as per a basic example:

">springball">Springball
">summerball">Summer ball
">autumnball">Autumn ball
">winterball">Winter ball
--None--

In this example, "Springball" would work, since the value and translated text are the same. "Summer ball" doesn't work, because they're different.

Now, I'd assume that when this is working for you, it's because the caption code and translation for that given select value are identical. So: we just need a way of setting the selected index based on the text. This will work:

crm.ready(function() {

var oContextInf = crm.getArgs();

if ((oContextInf.Act == "1190" || oContextInf.Act == "261" || oContextInf.Act == "142")) {

var compID = crm.fields("oppo_primarycompanyid").value();

var successCompany = function (crmRecord) {

crm.infoMessage("The company would like to be invited to the: " + crmRecord.comp_invitetotheball);

$("#oppo_invitetotheball option").filter(function() {
return this.text == crmRecord.comp_invitetotheball;
}).attr('selected', true);
}
crm.sdata({
entity: "company",
id: compID,
success: successCompany
});
}
});

By the way, I reproduced your original issue using IE with no compatibility mode enabled on CRM 7.2g.

Thanks,
Rob

Hi Rob,

Thank you for your help. Working beautifully.

The field name and "option" for the .filter(function().. I would not have found. I was thinking it would be something like option:selected so you have saved me a lot of time and testing!

Best regards,

Penny

No problem at all, you're very welcome!