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Cant get a field to populate on record creation

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hi Everybody,

What i want to do is update a fields value with another value , which is entered on creation of the record.

Im getting no errors which is annoying but im also thinking that i cant get the value of the field im trying to copy because it has not been saved to the database.

Any Ideas?

switch (context.MessageName)
{
case "Create":
{
switch (context.Stage)
{
case 20: // Pre-Operation
{


if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)
{
Entity createEntity = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

//Entity postMeImage = (Entity)context.PostEntityImages["postImage"];

string postGroup = string.Empty;
postGroup = ((EntityReference)createEntity.Attributes["codec_primaryprofessionalgroup"]).Name;
createEntity["codec_professionalgroups"] = postGroup;

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    RaviKashyap Profile Picture
    RaviKashyap 55,410 on at
    RE: Cant get a field to populate on record creation

    Hi,

    Can you share your complete code please and details of the field you are updating/ copying?

    Also, this requirement can be done by real time workflow as well. So if you do not have any specific requirement to use plugins, I would suggest to use real time workflow to copy field value.

    Hope this helps.

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    Adrian Begovich Profile Picture
    Adrian Begovich 1,014 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Cant get a field to populate on record creation

    Hi Jonathan85720535,

    One approach is to create a function for checking the message name of the context passed into it.

    private bool IsCreateMessage(IPluginExecutionContext context)
{
    return context.MessageName.Equals("create", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
}

    Lookup fields in Dynamics 365 need to be set the EntityReference. This means that you need to know the LogicalName of the entity the lookup is pointing to and the ID of the target record. For example.

    Entity recordToUpdate = service.Retrieve("currentEntity", currentEntityId, new ColumnSet(true));
recordToUpdate["lookupid"] = new EntityReference("destinationEntity", destinationRecordId);
service.Update(recordToUpdate);

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