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Plugin query - Contact with Id = xxx-xxxx does not exist

Hi,

I have replaced the OOTB address1_country field with a custom lookup list. I created an entity called Country, and created records of this type for every country in the world. Now, when the user creates a contact, they select the country from a lookup field.

However, when creating a contact in CRM by tracking it in from Outlook contacts, the original address1_country field is filled in. In order to then update the custom country field, I have written a plugin which takes the string value in address1_country (eg United Kingdom), looks up the relevant custom country record and adds it to the custom country field.

This all works perfectly when the string value matches a custom country. However, when the string value is something like 'UK' instead of 'United Kingdom', and therefore does not exist as a custom country record, I get the following error:

<Message>contact With Id = 2179c8b4-f2ff-e611-810e-e0071b6611e1 Does Not Exist</Message>

The plugin is firing on create of contact, post-operation, synchronous.

Could some suggest what I need to do?? Thank you.

Plugin code:

var pluginExecutionContext = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

if (pluginExecutionContext.Depth > 1) { return; }
var factory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));
var service = factory.CreateOrganizationService(pluginExecutionContext.UserId);

Entity contact = pluginExecutionContext.InputParameters["Target"] as Entity;

ColumnSet cols = new ColumnSet("frp_country", "frp_country", "address1_country", "address1_country");
Entity contactfull = service.Retrieve("contact", contact.Id, cols);

string countryname = "";
Guid countryid = new Guid();

if (contactfull.Contains("frp_country")) { return; }
if (contactfull.Contains("address1_country")) { countryname = (string)contactfull["address1_country"]; } else { return; }

string fetchxml = @"<fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' distinct='false'>
<entity name='frp_countrylist'>
<attribute name='frp_countrylistid' />
<attribute name='frp_name' />
<filter type='and'>
<condition attribute='frp_name' operator='eq' value='" + countryname + @"' />
</filter>
</entity>
</fetch>";

EntityCollection results = service.RetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression(fetchxml));

foreach (var ctry in results.Entities)
{
if (ctry.Contains("frp_countrylistid")) { countryid = (Guid)ctry["frp_countrylistid"]; }
}

contactfull["frp_country"] = new EntityReference("frp_countrylist", countryid);

service.Update(contactfull);

var pluginExecutionContext = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext)); if (pluginExecutionContext.Depth > 1) { return; } var factory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory)); var service = factory.CreateOrganizationService(pluginExecutionContext.UserId); Entity contact = pluginExecutionContext.InputParameters["Target"] as Entity; if (contact.Contains("frp_country")) return; var countryname = contact.GetAttributeValue<string>("address1_country"); if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(countryname)) return; string fetchxml = @"<fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' distinct='false'> <entity name='frp_countrylist'> <attribute name='frp_countrylistid' /> <attribute name='frp_name' /> <filter type='and'> <condition attribute='frp_name' operator='eq' value='" + countryname + @"' /> </filter> </entity> </fetch>"; var country = service.RetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression(fetchxml)).Entities.FirstOrDefault(); if (country == null) return; contact["frp_country"] = conutry.ToEntityReference();

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