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Plugin in Delete of Account with PreImage: PreImage is incomplete

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Posted on by Denisse Luna

I have this issue with a plugin im working on and I'm running out of ideas.

This is a plugin registered on:

Message: Delete

Primary Entity: Account

Secondary Entity: None

Pre-Operation (Already tried it on Post-Operation)

Execution Mode: Synchronous

Basically, I need to read the values of the record using the pre image. The preimage have a certain amount of field, not all the available ones.

I'm using:

Entity recordBefore = (Entity)context.PreEntityImages["preImage"];
  foreach (KeyValuePair<String, Object> attribute in recordBefore.Attributes)
{
/*Read each field and do something*/
tracingService.Trace("Key:{0}, Value:{1}", attribute.Key, attribute.Value);
}

However, the "recordBefore" entity is incomplete. I have selected in my preimage a lot of the "address1_xxx" fields and none of them is coming in the preimage. Its also happening with other fields, custom and not custom ones and all of different data types.

Any idea of why is this happening? If I select all the field in the preImage, I get a lot of field.. but not all of them and def. not the "address1_" ones.

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RE: Plugin in Delete of Account with PreImage: PreImage is incomplete

Awesome, thanks!

Names were fine but I change the step to Pre-Validation and it works fine. I normally don't use that stage but it seems like is the only way here. THANKS!

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RE: Plugin in Delete of Account with PreImage: PreImage is incomplete

My guess is that you are trying to do some coding logic before the Account gets deleted.

Make sure that when you created this plugin, you have the following:

Pipeline Stage: Pre-Validation

Pre Image Alias: preImage

Parameters: everything with "address1_xx"

Execution Order: 1 (assuming you have no other plugins that handle Account on Delete)

Also make sure you are including the correct schema names in the parameters and that they are the exact same ones in the form. You could be confusing "new_address1_xx" with "address1_xx".

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RE: Plugin in Delete of Account with PreImage: PreImage is incomplete

Thanks for your input. The other field I was not seeing in the preimage, yep, it didnt have data in the record.

However, the "address1_xx" ones do have data.

If I run the plugin in the update I can see those address values in the preImage but if I run the plugin in the delete I can't.

Its seems to be related only to the "address" fields.

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RE: Plugin in Delete of Account with PreImage: PreImage is incomplete

Hi Denisse, the preimage fields that will appear are determined by the Parameters set in the plugin registration tool (see highlighted):

The reason why some of the "address1_xxx" fields are not appearing in the "recordBefore" entity that you defined is because that entity might not have data in the field you selected. In plugins, if the entity does not have data in the field you selected, then the entity will not have that field at all.

You may want to do a check like this:

if (recordBefore.Contains("your field name") {

//run your code here

}

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