How to get the type of a field in Dynamics using Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata

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Posted on by Afantonio

Hello,

I'm trying to use Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata to get the type of an entity field in CRM, but I'm not getting it. In the documentation it says that when executing the command, a collection of attributes is returned and it has the type of the attribute.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/model-driven-apps/clientapi/reference/xrm-utility/getentitymetadata

        Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata('account', 'name').then(
            function(entityMetadata){
                console.log(entityMetadata);
                console.log(entityMetadata.Attibutes['name'].AttributeType);
            }
        )

When I run the code above, several properties are returned, but I don't know how to get the type of field I want. Could someone please give me an example of how to get this property?

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RE: How to get the type of a field in Dynamics using Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata

Hi Kokulan,

Thank you very much for the answer, it was exactly what I needed.
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Kokulan 18,048 on at

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RE: How to get the type of a field in Dynamics using Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata

Hi

Please make sure you pass the attributes in an array as shown below

Xrm.Utility.getEntityMetadata('account', ['createdon', 'name'])

And when you get the results, you can access it using a few different ways, the following is one of them

Thanks