Alternative for shared variables in plugin to pass data in context

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We have one plugin(i.e. plugin1) which is triggered on update of the Entity A. In Plugin1 we are updating another entity B. On update of Entity B we have 3 plugin registered(Plugin2, Plugin3 and Plugin4). In Plugin 4 we were reading shared variables added in Plugin1. This is working fine in CRM 2011, now we migrated to D365. As change in shared variables in D365, shared variables update of entity 1 will not available to another entity update if Depth is 2.

Is there any other way to pass variables from 1 entity update plugin to another entity update plugin?

Please advise.

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Diksha

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Kokulan 18,054 on at

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Hi

You could create a attribute on Entity B to have the shared variable value. This value will be set by Plugin 1.

Since Plugin 2,3,4 trigger on Update, they will have access to that attribute.

If you want to go a bit further with this, you could also think about setting the plugin execution order

And you could also take advantage of Plugin Execution Order, if you want to lets say pass fro Plugin 1 to 2 and then from 2 to 3 and from 3 to 4.

"Execution order in plugin specifies the order, also known as rank, that plug-ins are executed within a pipeline stage. Plug-ins registered with an order value of 1 are executed first, followed by plug-ins registered with an order of 2, and so on. However, if there is more than one plug-in in a stage with the same order value, then the plug-in with the earliest compilation date is called first"

social.microsoft.com/.../execution-order-in-plugin-registration-tool

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Hi Kokulan,

Thanks for suggestion.

For now we have fixed issue creating new attribute on Entity B. But we have many other plugins so we just want to know if there is any other way to set shared variables. So we can move value stored in shared variable to that parameter of context. If CRM is provides alternative for same please let us know.

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Do you have settings entity in your CRM system, if so you could use setting records as shared variables?

If you don't already have a settings entity, you can actually create an Entity called shared variable

You can create fields in it based on the type of value you want to store in shared variables

You can create the shared variable records and get the record using GUIDS using Retrieve instead of Retrieve Multiple

For Example

SharedVariableOne - has a record in Shared Variable Entity - Created Manually By You

In your plugin Code, you could create a Property that has the following code

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Kokulan 18,054 on at

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You can improve the Variable Loading time, by having a backing variable as shown below

One thing I forgot to mention when you deploy to other environments, you will have to export and import the SharedVariable records as one off thing to maintain the GUID.

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Shaun W Harvey 242 on at

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Hi Diksha,

I have just come across your post regarding this issue.

Do you have any details as to when this change around Shared Variables took place and what the exact details are.

Is there any documentation, blog post or something?

I think I may have come across a very similar issue. Trying to read shared variable set on entity 1 during an another entity update when the depth =2

Best Regards,

Shaun

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Hi Shaun,

We facing this issue while migration, we were using same plugin developed for 2011 version. Few of them is not working in D365. We checked the Shared Variables returning undefined. So we searched it on community. We got below reference URL,

www.magnifez.com/shared-variables-and-impersonation-in-ms-dynamic-crm-plugins-advanced-plugin-concept-part-2

In last stanza they mentioned that shared variables are changed in D365. So we stored value in field, which passes with parents context.

Regards,

Diksha

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Shaun W Harvey 242 on at

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Hi Diksha,

I have found the same post as well. Left a comment to ask how they know about the changes?

I am more than happy to accept the functionality has changed and I may have to change our plugin code. I'm just curious as to how they know as I can't find any other documentation around this change.

Thanks,

Shaun

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