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Change state and status by script

Hello, I became aware of something in Dynamics programming through C#. It is about setting the state as well as status code through the script.

Although all permissions are given for both read and write, I get the exception/error : "This entity is readonly." The setting of the state and status code is done as follows:

entity["statecode"] = new OptionSetValue(0);
entity["statuscode"] = new OptionSetValue(1);
service.Update(entity);

The interesting thing is that this way works in many other examples... but not for the "invoice" entity. So what is being done? I tried this with the SetStateRequest class - which also eventually led to success.

SetStateRequest setStateRequest = new SetStateRequest()
{
    
    EntityMoniker = new EntityReference
    {
        Id = invoice.Id,
        LogicalName = "invoice",
    },
    State = new OptionSetValue(0),
    Status = new OptionSetValue(1)
};

service.Execute(setStateRequest);

Now my question about this - what is the crucial reason that the top lines of code point to "readonly" and the bottom one works. Is this possibly just a "bug" or is there something behind it?

Thank you and have a pleasant day.

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