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ReferencedEntity Value - Modifiedby value in plug-in

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Hi,

Looking for an answer to make another call to just to retrieve the name.

I need the Modified by value in plug-in. When i verified the advanced find fetchxml i get the Modified by value(User Name) as string but when i am trying in Plug-in i get the Guid. I need the opportunity modified by user name. Do i need to make another call to SystemUser entity to get the name? In c# plug-in modified by value comes as Guid. I am looking for an option whether i can get the user name text without making another call to SystemUser entity either using ReferencedEntity or any other way?

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Tomas Prokop 590 on at

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Hi,

there is a chance that the EntityReference instance has also Name property populated which is a primary attribute of the referenced entity.

Unfortunately systemuser entity uses Full Name as the primary attribute.

If you want to retrieve the username you have to make a call to the organization service (late bound style). You should specify only fields you want to retrieve in ColumnSet:

//Create service factory var serviceFactory = executionContext.GetExtension<IOrganizationServiceFactory>(); // Create Organization service _organizationService = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(_context.UserId); var userRecord = _organizationService.Retrieve(userReference.LogicalName, userReference.Id, new Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query.ColumnSet("domainname")); var userName = userRecord["domainname"];

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Thanks Tomas Prokop. Above code also makes an additional call. I am on Opportunity entity and want to know the modified by user name. I can make another call and retrieve that but i am looking for some thing that directly can grab the name similar like linked entity. I have already a Target object as Opportunity as i am in Opportunity plug-in. Is there any way without making a Retrieve call we can grab the name of the opportunity owner name?

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Tomas Prokop 590 on at

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I don't think you will find username in context variables. If you try to retrieve it using organization service it will return a cached value if the attribute will have been already accessed in the transaction.

In case you want to get Full Name attribute you can use the Name property of EntityReference class as mentioned above.

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gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

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Hello,

Try to retrieve using "modifiedbyyominame" attribute , but I am not sure seems without access system user table you can not get the modified by user name in the plugin.

As an alternate if you can create one additional text field and in client side on save you assign the current user name (Xrm.Page.context.getUserName();) to the text field . From plugin you can directly get the user name from your text field.

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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When it's coming from the client, Dynamics tends to ignore "names" (there is no value in having those names, usually, since all references are, really, about ID-s). I'd just query CRM in your plugin to get the name.

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