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Create 2 records in Javascript with one of the records related to the other

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Posted on by Giannis Tsak 120

Hello guys,

I'm trying to implement the below scenario using Javascript: I want to make a function that creates a record (let's say for table A) and then one more record (for a different table, let's say B) which has a lookup field to the first one. All in one go. I am using two Xrm.WebApi.createRecord functions, the 2nd one inside the success callback of the 1st one. My problem is that after the 1st insert , my code cannot retrieve/find it so I can relate it during the second insert.

Any ideas?

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  • Suggested answer
    meelamri Profile Picture
    meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

    Hello,

    in success callback use result.id

    refer to this example:

    docs.microsoft.com/.../createrecord

  • Giannis Tsak Profile Picture
    Giannis Tsak 120 on at

    I'm doing that. That's the way I'm trying to bind it.

  • meelamri Profile Picture
    meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

    Please share your code.

  • Giannis Tsak Profile Picture
    Giannis Tsak 120 on at 

    function AddInvoiceHeader(arrIds,entitlementid)
{	
	var data =
		{
			"new_name": "Case Invoice Header",
			//"new_entitlementid@odata.bind" : "/entitlements("  entitlementid  ")"
		}
	
	Xrm.WebApi.createRecord("new_caseinvoice", data).then(
		function success(result) {
			setTimeout(function(){ AddInvoiceLines(arrIds, result.id); }, 3000);
		},
		function (error) {
			console.log(error.message);
		}
	);		
}

function AddInvoiceLines(arrIds, caseinvid)
{
	for (var i = 0; i < arrIds.length; i  ) 
	{  								
		var caseid = arrIds[i];		
		var data =
		{
			"new_name": "Case Invoice Line",
			"new_caseinvoiceid@odata.bind": "/new_caseinvoices("  caseinvid  ")",
			"new_incidentid@odata.bind": "/incidents("  caseid  ")"		
		}
		Xrm.WebApi.createRecord("new_caseinvoiceline", data).then(
		function success(result) {
			console.log("Line Created");
			Xrm.Utility.alertDialog("Line Created");
		},
		function (error) {
			console.log(error.message);

		}
		);			
	} 
}

    ArrIds is an array of incident type guids. The 2 tables I'm using is new_caseinvoice and new_caseinvoiceline and I'm trying to create the typical header-lines format.

  • Verified answer
    meelamri Profile Picture
    meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

    Hello,

    Maybe something is wrong with NavigationPropertyBinding.

    Take a look to my code, I try to create a contact and bind with an account:

    var data =
{
    "fistname": "contact mel",
    "lastname": "Line",
    "parentcustomerid_account@odata.bind": "/accounts(3f749846-ca1b-ea11-a812-000d3a337847)",
}


Xrm.WebApi.createRecord("contact", data).then(
    function success(result) {
        console.log(result);
    },
    function (error) {
        console.log(error.message);
    }
);

    So the trick to find the correct NavigationPropertyBinding for the contact entity go to:

    https://YourOrganisation.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/$metadata#contact/$entity and go to your EntitySet nood, in my case it's contact.

    I found the right NavigationPropertyBinding path:

    <NavigationPropertyBinding Path="parentcustomerid_account" Target="accounts"/> --> parentcustomerid_account that I use in my JS code.

    Hope this helps

  • Giannis Tsak Profile Picture
    Giannis Tsak 120 on at

    Thanks for your reply Mehdi.

    I've checked the NavigationPropertyBinding and it is okay.

    I replaced the body of the second function with a simple record retrieve of the result.id and it doesn't seem to find it. It's like the header record at the time the 2nd function runs, has not been created yet.

  • meelamri Profile Picture
    meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

    Please remove the alertDialog from your code. Run again and share your console output.

  • Giannis Tsak Profile Picture
    Giannis Tsak 120 on at

    I've re-created the tables and I re-wrote the script from scratch + got rid of the alert messages and the timeout function and now it works. I can only assume that it indeed had something to do with the NavigationPropertyBinding as you mentioned and I missed something during my check. Regardless, thanks for the help.

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