Debugging Custom Action

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Posted on by liranelisha

i have created a Process of type Action. i need it since i'm building a PCF and calling the process with specific inputs from the PCF

however, i haven't found a guide or doc in how to debug Actions!

i have found that i can debug custom workflow, but custom workflow can't get input parameters. is that correct?

is there a way to debug actions? or a workaround that is used in the community?

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a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: Debugging Custom Action

Hello,

Can you please explain what exact issue you experience?

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When i open the plugin registration tool, there isn't any option to profile actions, just custom workflows

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RE: Debugging Custom Action

Gotcha! I believe I will record video on this but the approach is following:

1. Add a step to your action that handles the message of the action.

2. Start profiling on the step.

3. And there is no step 3 - you can do the troubleshooting the way you do it with regular plugins.

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RE: Debugging Custom Action

thank you for the response Andrew, but i think i'm missing something

the action already contain a step that calls the code activity

however, i can't find it in the profiler

am i misunderstanding you?

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RE: Debugging Custom Action

Hi,

Debugging a custom action is same debugging a plugin using plugin profile and profiling the steps.

I assume you have added the plugin code on your custom action and register the steps.

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Yeah. There was a misunderstanding. I thought you have a plugin that sits on the backend that handles your message.

So you're basically calling custom workflow activity from your action. In this case, in order to troubleshoot it as you would do it with Custom Workflow Activity and that never worked fine for me.

I would recommend to refactor the code and turn your custom workflow activity to the plugin that handles your custom message.

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Bipin Kumar - I have added the code to the plugin assembly and registered it using the plugin registration tool. i then added it to the action like in the image before

i haven't registered it as a new step like plugin

should i? what parameters should i put in the step? the action isn't running in entity scope so i'm also wondering how will the register step form should be filled

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Andrew Butenko - this is what i tried. it is important to mention that i created an action that i run from code. there is not custom workflow in here:

community.dynamics.com/.../crm-2016---when-to-use-an-action-process-vs-a-workflow

as you said to try to debug custom workflow - this is the first image. i tried to debug it but the profiler didn't even see the actions...

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What I recommend is to refactor your custom worflow activity that you call from action to Plugin and register that plugin to handle the message of your custom action - you will have full access to input/output parameters of your action and you will be able to debug it as a regular plugin.

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RE: Debugging Custom Action

Andrew Butenko - how do i register a step to an action? i'm asking about the technical part here - what parameter do i add to the step form and such

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