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Programatically Disabling a Business Rule

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Posted on by Ben Walker 22

I am trying to programatically disable a Business Rule using the SDK.

I am retrieving the Business Rule by retrieving the appropriate workflow record, making sure I select the 'Activation' record (Type=2), rather than the Definition Record, and retrieving the currently active record.

I've tried using a SetStateRequest, an UpdateRequest and a plain old Update. In every case I get the error message: "Cannot update a published workflow definition."

I've used similar code in the past to deactivate SDK message processing steps, but cannot figure how to get it to work for a Business Rule. Is there a different entity I should be trying to update, rather than workflow?

Thanks,

Ben

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    a33ik Profile Picture
    a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Ben,

    My recommendation - check how Microsoft does it - open activate rule, run Fiddler, deactivate rule, stop Fiddler, check how Microsoft code does it.

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    Kokulan Profile Picture
    Kokulan 18,054 on at

    Hi 

    I tried with the following code to activate and deactivate a BR and it seems to work fine


    // Activate
    var activateRequest = new SetStateRequest
    {
    EntityMoniker = new EntityReference
    ("workflow", new Guid("37878d0561edea11a815000d3a7f1b13")),
    State = new OptionSetValue(1),
    Status = new OptionSetValue(2)
    };
    CrmService.Execute(activateRequest);

    // De-activate
    var deActivateRequest = new SetStateRequest
    {
    EntityMoniker = new EntityReference
    ("workflow", new Guid("37878d0561edea11a815000d3a7f1b13")),
    State = new OptionSetValue(0), 
    Status = new OptionSetValue((1)  
    };
    CrmService.Execute(deActivateRequest );

    Hope this helps

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    Ben Walker 22 on at

    Hi both, thanks for the reply.

    Andrew, I tried what you suggested but couldn't really work out what was going on from what Fiddler was showing me.

    Kokulan, I got your code working. I realised my mistake - when querying the Busines Rule I was looking for records where type=2, which is the activation record. In fact I should have been selecting the records where type = 1 (definition). I thought that I'd already tried this but obviously not - all working fine now as long as you select type=1.

    Thanks again,

    Ben

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