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finding which parent entity triggered child entity create plugin ?

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Posted on by umma

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I have three entities:

Employer
Employee
Benefits

Benefit is child entity for Employer and Employee entities. It means both of these can cause creating a Benefit record and I m writing a plugin (which will run on Create of Benefit). Question is how in code I can check which entity among Employer and Employee causes creation of Benefit record ? I appreciate your help.

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Drew suggested a way to check value, I m curies is there a way like I can know in plugin code which entity basically initiated it or triggered this plugin. I mean without checking value a way to get that linked entity name. Thanks

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umma 235 on at

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RE: finding which parent entity triggered child entity create plugin ?

Thanks Drew, I have updated my question. Kindly advice.
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Drew Poggemann 9,079 on at

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RE: finding which parent entity triggered child entity create plugin ?

Hi CRM User,

The Benefits entity can only be in a parental relationship with a single entity (i.e. Employer or Employee) and the other would need to be a referential relationship. Each of the two fields will be on the entity (Benefits) as a Lookup field to the appropriate entity. You will be able to look at the one that is not null and the Benefits entity will be related to that one.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,