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context.InputParameters[“RelatedEntities”] is not an EntityReferenceCollection

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Posted on by Clem 2,541

Hello everyone,

I'm facing a strange "issue" today.
When associating / diassociating records, i'm sending message to our Service Bus  for further process.
During the retrieving process of this message, i correctly have my "Target", "Relationship" and "RelatedEntities" properties in my InputParameters : 

2017_2D00_04_2D00_24_5F00_12_2D00_14_2D00_54_2D00_devenv.png

Problem as you can see on the screenshot is my RelatedEntities is an object.
According to some blogs read (ex : https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/mscrmshop/archive/2012/05/14/how-to-trigger-a-plugin-for-many-to-many-relationship), i can't convert my object into an EntityReferenceCollection, this is returning me a null value :

 2017_2D00_04_2D00_24_5F00_12_2D00_18_2D00_06_2D00_devenv.png

Does anyone have an idea here ?

Thanks a lot,

Clément

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  • ashlega Profile Picture
    ashlega 34,477 on at

    Hi Clement,

     just out of curiosity, what's the actual type of that parameter then?

     Could you try something like plugin.InputParameters["RelatedEntities"].GetType.ToString()

  • Gopalan Bhuvanesh Profile Picture
    Gopalan Bhuvanesh 11,401 on at

    Hi

    The type EntityReferenceCollection is correct for RelatedEntities, for associate/disassociate operation.

    I am not sure why it is null.

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    Clem 2,541 on at

    I found a workaround here.

    Instead of casting it into EntityReferenceCollection as it should  be (maybe caused by the transfer of data to Service bus ?), i'm casting it into an Array then i can do a simple foreach(EntityReference er into myobjectarray)

    Clément

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