how to create an entity record by using object initializer

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Posted on by Rawish Kumar

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Hi Experts,

I would like know if its possible to create an entity record in late bound using object initializer. I know its possible in early bound but cant seem to find a way in late bound.
just like a query expression I can do this:

var queryExp = new QueryExpression("entityname")
{
ColumnSet = new ColumnSet("fieldname"),
Criteria =
{
Filters =
{
new FilterExpression
{
FilterOperator = LogicalOperator.And, Conditions =
{
new ConditionExpression("new_name", ConditionOperator.Equal, "OPP")
}

}
}
}

};

var result = service.RetrieveMultiple(queryExp);

rather than :

var queryExp = new QueryExpression("entityname");
queryExp.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet("fieldname");
queryExp.Criteria.AddCondition("new_name", ConditionOperator.Equal, "OPP");
var result = service.RetrieveMultiple(queryExp);

I want to do same thing when creating an entity like :

var entity = new entity("entityname)

{
//not sure how to assign values to entity attributes here

};

service.Update(entity);

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Rawish Kumar 13,758 on at

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RE: how to create an entity record by using object initializer

Hi Ravi,

This is what I thought. Thanks for looking into this.
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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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RE: how to create an entity record by using object initializer

Hi,

It is not possible to use collection initializer with Entity (late bound). Check the below error message-

Hope this helps.
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Rawish Kumar 13,758 on at

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RE: how to create an entity record by using object initializer

Hi Thanks for your response.

I can very well update the entity too if i assign the ID of an existing record to this new record.

My question is slightly different. I have showed two ways of initializing a query expression. same way I wanted to know for entity creation or updation.

The method you show is what we and everyone uses.

i think i am essentially talking about a "collection initializer" rather than traditional object initializer. If thats possible here with latebound because with early bound i can easily do something like.

var entity = new Entity(entityname)

{

new_name = "name";

new_field1 = 1;

etc etc

};

but cant seem to find a way doing it using late bound. Hope this makes sense now.
Sreevalli 3,256 on at

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RE: how to create an entity record by using object initializer

Hi,

you should use service.create not update. see the below sample code for different data types.

Entity accObj = new Entity("account"); accObj["name"] = name; //string accObj["fax"] = "+46 012332155"; accObj["telephone1"] = "+46 (0) 75673456"; //phone number accObj["revenue"] = new Money(Convert.ToDecimal(18000.50)); //decimal accObj["numberofemployees"] = 25; //whole number accObj["websiteurl"] = "http://xxx.se/"; //url accObj["customertypecode"] = new OptionSetValue(3); //optionset if (conId != Guid.Empty) accObj["primarycontactid"] = new EntityReference("contact", conId); // lookup - contact reference if (accId != Guid.Empty) accObj["parentaccountid"] = new EntityReference("account", accId); // lookup - account reference Guid accerecId = service.Create(accObj);