Dynamics 365 CE: Find out user who created entity

Recently I came across an interesting question, how to find out user who created an entity and when?

This might not seem to be an important thing, but sometimes, when multiple teams or developers are working, it is crucial to find out who did what.

First thing that comes to mind is to look for Dynamics 365 Meta Data Service, but we are out of luck here.

Dynamics 365 do not keep record of Entity Creator.

But there is a trick, hang on.

Problem

How to figure out who created an entity and when.

Solution

When an entity is created in Dynamics 365, a set of System Views are also created. Fortunately, the View is an Entity itself and like others it has Created By field. And Created By of the System View is the user who created the Entity.

Let’s take a scenario.

I can see an entity named Bundle is created in my environment and there is much wrong about it. We have a vendor and an in-house developer, let’s figure out, who created this.

• Go to Advance Find.
• Select View in Look for dropdown.

• Add Created By and Created On columns (if you would like to see when the Entity was created).

• We know, when an entity is created a System View with the name ‘Active <Entity Name>’ is created. Let’s enter the view Name in the filter.

Please note, System View name can be modified later, which can be seen in the Default Solution -> Entities -> <Entity Name> -> Views. Also feel free to sort the results by created on to find out newly created records.

• Click on Results.

Result

We can see the user who created this entity.

Quite Easily Done!

Best,

Wahaj