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Populate custom field with GUId

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Posted on by Ian uk

Hi all

i want to populate a custom field I add to a contact with the auto generated GUID, this is so I can sync it with a third party tool that won’t sync the GUId but will sync custom fields

can anyone help?

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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RE: Populate custom field with GUId

Hi,

I don't have exact same example but you can do something like this

1. After you have imported that workflow utility, Create Workflow on Contact

2. You can select On Create event

3. Under Workflow designer following this step

4. Add a Update Step from Add Step and click on Set Properties and follow below steps (Instead of the descript field selected here you need to first select your custom field where you want to set the GUID and then follow right hand side steps

Let me know if you are facing any issue.
Ian uk 5 on at

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RE: Populate custom field with GUId

HI Mehan

I have tried to follow the instructions but i seem to miss the part where I can use this to populate a custom field. do you have an example?
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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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RE: Populate custom field with GUId

Hi,

You can write your onw code to do this thing, you can have script which will only trigger if record is created from the GUID, or you can have workflow/plugin which will trigger in every case (record created from UI or using any other application).

If you don't want to write code you can use this workflow utility

Dynamics-365-Workflow-Tools (github.com/.../Dynamics-365-Workflow-Tools)

This utility provides different options one of them is get record id

github.com/.../GetRecordID.md

Which you can use to set your custom field.