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I'm inserting a record using DirPersonBaseEntity, but i'm getting this error:
Field 'Name' must be filled in.\nvalidateField failed on field 'DirPartyBaseEntity.Name'\n"

How to auto fill it by code?

   DirPersonBaseEntity dirPersonBaseEntity;

   dirPersonBaseEntity.PartyNumber                     = "123";
   dirPersonBaseEntity.FirstName                       = "aa";
   dirPersonBaseEntity.LastName                        = "bb";
   dirPersonBaseEntity.insert();

However, if i do the same but using DirPersonEntity, it works directly without filling Name and i think it's because of this mapping. What does this mapping do?

and what do in base entity to make it work?

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Alireza Eshaghzadeh 14,734 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,
The keys are PartyNumber and ValidFrom. If either the first name, middle name, last name prefix, or last name has changed, the Name value must be rebuilt.

Please try adding ValidFrom as part of the key. If that does not resolve the issue, rebuild the Name value accordingly.

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Martin Dráb 238,109 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Name seems to be calculated in DirPersonBaseEntity.mapEntityToDataSource(). Debug the code to identify the difference between your two cases.

Maybe you need to call initValue() of DirPersonBaseEntity.

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This issue is duplicate of Dynamics Community Forum Thread Details

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CU22120935-0 18 on at

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Hi @Martin Dráb @Alireza Eshaghzadeh

initValue fixed the issue directly but i don't know why it was needed for DirPersonBaseEntity and it wasn't needed for DirPersonEntiy

Regarding validFrom, i agree that i need to fill it, currently when i create a record, valid from is 1900, but when i update the record it's gets filled automatically with currentDateTime even though i didn't specify validFrom by code
How to fill validFrom in case of insert by code? and how it's handled in update automatically?

**regarding question duplication, i sent an email to the support team, not sure why my questions appear twice in the forum

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If you debugged the code as I suggested, you'd have seen the difference.

This is my assumption about what happened:

If you look at the name calculation logic I mentioned, you'll notice that it depends on NameSequenceDisplayAs field. It's initialized in initValue() based on a parameter table. When DirPersonBaseEntity is used by DirPersonEntity, the system calls initValue() correctly. But when you used the entity from your code, you neither set NameSequenceDisplayAs field nor called initValue(), therefore NameSequenceDisplayAs wasn't specified and the name couldn't be calculated.

Please don't forget to verify the answer.

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