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Plug-in to delete records

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I need to write a retrieve plug-in to delete some records every time the user clicks on an account. I'm usingBulkDeleteRequest from the SDK but it seems like this request is fired after the user clicks on an account. Is there any other/better way to delete records (that match some criteria) before the account page is loaded? Thanks a lot.

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    Aiden Kaskela Profile Picture
    Aiden Kaskela 19,696 on at

    Hi,

    I would configure a Retrieve plugin on the Account entity that runs synchronously. This should run when CRM attempts to retrieve the account and before it's opened. It'll slow down your form load a touch but it shouldn't be noticeable unless you're deleting a lot of records.

    Hope this helps - if so I would appreciate if you would mark this as the verified answer.

    Thanks,

     Aiden

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    Community Member on at

    Hi,

    Thanks for your reply. I did register the plug-in to run synchronously but usingBulkDeleteRequest is asynchronous anyway (according to the SDK). Is there any other way to bulk delete records in code?

    Thanks.

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    Aiden Kaskela 19,696 on at

    You can query for the records you want to delete, then make a single call using the ExecuteMultipleRequest message. You would build Delete Requests for each entity, but you send them all to the server at the same time.

    Check out this link for more details and examples:

    msdynamicscrmblog.wordpress.com/.../use-executemultiplerequest-for-bulk-createupdatedelete-using-c-in-dynamics-crm-2011-2

    The old school way to do it would to just loop through and delete one at a time. If you are using a small data set, this won't be too bad either.

    Hope this helps!

     Aiden

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