CRM 2011 – Plugin triggering off Associate message
Posted by Daryl Orwin in CRM, CRM 2011 on Jul 5th, 2011 | 10 commentsThere aren’t many examples of how to trigger off an Associate message out in the wild and it’s a little different than in CRM 4.0.
The main difference here is that you can’t register for an Associate event against a specific entity, it’s against ALL entities so your code has to handle ensuring you are executing for the correct entity inside the message.Ā This works both OnPrem and Online.
Below I have an example where I check the target and the relationship for their logical names and schema names:
// Get Primary Entity
EntityReference target = (EntityReference)context.InputParameters["Target"];
if (target.LogicalName == "new_parententity" || target.LogicalName == "new_tutoringattendance")
{
Relationship relationShip = (Relationship)context.InputParameters["Relationship"];
// Get Related Entities
EntityReferenceCollection relatedentities = (EntityReferenceCollection)context.InputParameters["RelatedEntities"];
foreach (EntityReference rel in relatedentities)
{
// Check Related Entity Logical & Schema name
if (rel.LogicalName == "contact" && relationShip.SchemaName == "new_new_schemaname_contact")
{
Entity parentEntity = service.Retrieve("new_parent", target.Id, new ColumnSet(true));
Entity relatedEntity = service.Retrieve("contact", rel.Id, new ColumnSet(true));
// Do some work...
}
}
}
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Hi Daryl,
Thanks for this code example. I’m trying to get it to work, but it seems like my plugin isn’t firing at all.
I’ve registered a step for Associate of any entity on the parent pipeline, but I’m at a bit of a loss as to how I should write the override for “EntityNames”.
So far it’s been:
protected override List EntityNames()
{
return new List { “” };
}
where is the schemaname of the entity/-ies the plugin is registered for. Here it isn’t registered on any, so what should I write?
Hope you can help!
Maria
Hi Maria,
Do you have a code example you can post or send me so I can see it in context?
Cheers
Hi Daryl,
Sure š
public partial class CreateContactRoles : PluginBase
{
protected override string PluginName()
{
return GetType().ToString();
}
protected override List EntityNames()
{
return new List { “contact” };
}
protected override void MessageSwitch(IServiceProvider serviceProvider, IPluginExecutionContext PluginExecutionContext, IOrganizationServiceFactory OrganizationServiceFactory, ITracingService TracingService)
{
TracingService.Trace(“{0} executing MessageSwitch”, PluginName());
try
{
// Get Primary Entity
EntityReference target = (EntityReference)PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters[“Target”];
if (target.LogicalName == “contact” || target.LogicalName == “nc_roletype”)
{
Relationship relationShip = (Relationship)PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters[“Relationship”];
// Get Related Entities
EntityReferenceCollection relatedentities = (EntityReferenceCollection)PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters[“RelatedEntities”];
foreach (EntityReference rel in relatedentities)
{
//… do something
}
…
Hmm. And you aren’t hitting any breakpoints in the plugin when you expect it to be triggered?
Just to verify, the relationship you are triggering off is a Many-to-Many correct?
Correct on both accounts.
Maria,
Were you able to get your plugin working?
I haven’t been able to think of anything else that would prevent it from triggering off of the Add Existing button.
Unfortunately not. I ended up writing it as a console app instead, which wasn’t quite as neat, but at least got me done by deadline. Thanks for your help.
Almost a month later, and I finally found my error.
The override of EntityNames should be
protected override List EntityNames()
{
return new List() {“none”};
}
Hope this can help prevent other coders getting the same grey hairs as I did š
Hi,
I need to display related entity based on the selection of primary entity like account,contact from dropdown and load the related entity in another dropdown.
Thanks,
Jalal
Hi Daryl,
Thanks for the code i found it very helpful.
Regards