Lookup field object doesn't contain ID Value in CRM 2016.

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Posted on by Michal Sivak

Hi guys. I am having issue, my lookup field doesn't have ID value. It does have only name of entity and entity type but not ID. We use ID to retrieve another records via AJAX. Has someone encountered with the same issue?. Is there any another solution to get ID value from Lookup field.? Thank you for your help.

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Hi Michal,

It's not possible, every record have it's own GUID, and when we are referring any record in lookup it's based on id only. can you share you code here for inquiry ??

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Michal Sivak on at

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Hi HIMBAP, thank you for your replay. Yes I know every record must have own GUID. But somehow when I try to retrieve value from lookup field for Site ID

var siteId = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_siteconsultationid").getValue()[0].id; it shows me that id doesn't exist or is undefined. When I debug code via developer tool it shows me that looup field holds only the name and entitytype name value, but not ID. is it possible ?I talk about CRM 2016 with update. Thank you for your help

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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It seems very strange, I will appreciate if you can share screenshots of your watch window for more clarity. Also can you provide some more details about entity is it a custom entity or system site entity ?? Thanks

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Rickard Norström on at

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Hi,

How is that lookup set? Is it the same for all records or just for some?

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Michal Sivak on at

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Hi Guys, I already fixed. It was my mistake I had forgotten to include Id in lookupItem object so that's why on load the lookup field didn't have ID. Strange that didn't throw error.

//set up the lookup fields

var lookupData = new Array();

var lookupItem = new Object();

lookupItem.typename = value.LogicalName;

lookupItem.name = value.Name;

// lookupItem.id = value.Id; - this one was missing

lookupData[0] = lookupItem;

Xrm.Page.getAttribute(fieldName).setValue(lookupData);

Thank you guys for help.

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