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I have a collection of records from different entities. I want to find the field name which contains the unique identifier for the particular record belonging to any entity.
Is there an API that can accept something like record type and return which is the unique identifier for that entity type?
Basically, I have to perform some kind of action based on unique identifier field of the entity?
Thank you so much for the reply. It actually solved my issue.
Hi Dishant,
Each definition entity type uses MetadataId as the unique identifier property, which it inherits from the MetadataBase EntityType.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/use-web-api-metadata
Because the MetadataId is the primary key for definition items, retrieving individual items follows the same pattern used to retrieve business data tables.
GET /api/data/v9.0/EntityDefinitions(<Entity MetadataId>)
Refer to the following link for more details:
Hi,
What language and king of application do you use?
To get the PrimaryIdAttribute from the entity name, you can use this WebAPI request:
/api/data/v9.1/EntityDefinitions(LogicalName='account')?$select=PrimaryIdAttribute
To learn more, see: learn.microsoft.com/.../query-metadata-web-api
Thank you so much for the reply. Actually, this field is not available in all entities. I tried looking it up in the knowledge article entity, but couldn't find it. Is there any other way or particular field which is universal to all the tables for achieving the same thing?
Hi,
You may use dataareaid.
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