OrganizationService Update triggering change events for fields that maintain their value.

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Posted on by TonyN

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I have a webform that pulls in values from CRM (D365) On-Premise. When the form is saved, there is a date field, that even when I do not assign a value, the onchange event is fired in CRM, which in my case, fires a workflow.

If _Entity.DateField Is Nothing And Me.txtDate.Text <> "" Then
                _Entity.DateField = Me.txtDate.Text
            ElseIf _Entity.DateField IsNot Nothing Then
                If _SWTCommon.Field(_Entity.DateField, " ", 1) <> Me.txtDate.Text Then
                    _Entity.DateField = Me.txtDate.Text
                End If
            End If

The _SWTCommon.Field function formats the date time string as date only. I use the same function to fill the textbox when the web form loads. I've stepped through and seen that no value gets assigned to _Entity.DateField, but the workflow that is triggered by the onchange is still fired.

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TonyN 695 on at

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RE: OrganizationService Update triggering change events for fields that maintain their value.

I was doing exactly what you thought I was doing. Thanks for your help. I appear to have it working now.
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ashlega 34,475 on at

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RE: OrganizationService Update triggering change events for fields that maintain their value.

Hi Tony,

how are you updating the form? If it's like this:

Entity a = Service.Retrieve(...);

...

Service.Update(a);

that update will be sending all the attributes back to the server, and that will be counted as an update of those attributes(even if they have not changed).

Should be like this instead:

Entity a = Service.Retrieve(...);

...

Entity b = new Entity(...);

b.Id = a.Id;

//Set b attributes

Service.Update(b);