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Posted on by Gabriela C

Hello,

I am working on D365. I have a workflow that calls an action and that action is taken as a step on the plugin registration for a plugin.

But the plugin is not firing, do you know if what I am trying to do is possible?

I made it this way because I need to update some related items when the status of one entity changes, and as I cant get a retrieve on the workflow, I knew this should be done with a plugin, but I made an action to call it because I need to send the id from the changed entity to be referenced on the related items.

Thanks for your help

Gaby

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

Gaby,

Can you please post screenshot that shows your action, screenshot of step of a plugin you developed and code of a plugin? And screenshot of your workflow as well please.

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Gabriela C 45 on at

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

This is the wf

The red rectangle is the action I am calling, in the configuration I am passing the id of the record the wf created before the call for the action

This is the action, it only has the id as input

The action is set as a step for a plugin

And the code gets all the items I need to modify and then set the reference to the created record on the wf. (I tested this code on a separated console and its working fine)

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

Hello Gabriela,

Can you please also send a screenshot of the step(detail page) you have added?

Thanks

Yogesh

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

Do you know if this kind of action is possible or if is not? Because the plugin is not firing.

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

One more thing - can you post screenshot of WF Action itself - I would love to see what you pass inside. Also can you please post screenshot of WF that was executed just to recheck that action was invoked on WF side.

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

Check whether the Plugin is getting triggered by throwing manual Exception immediately inside the Execute function as shown in below screenshot.

This will confirm that the plugin is exactly getting triggered or not

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

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Gabriela C 45 on at

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

I tried that already and the exception never shows, that why I think the plugin is not triggered.

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Gabriela C 45 on at

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

I think I dont understand. I already posted the screenshot of the workflow and marked where the action is being called. Its the first image. And the code called is a plugin that receives the context, not a wf action.

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

Hi,

You can do retrieval of data in custom workflow and update record. There is not need to make plugin for the same. Follow this article for creating custom workflow -

mahenderpal.wordpress.com/.../step-by-step-creating-custom-workflow-in-microsoft-crm-2011

Please verify my answers.

Thanks,

Sandeep

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Gabriela C 45 on at

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RE: Calling a plugin from an action called on a workflow

I know this can be made with custom wf, but is not what my client wants. And my doubt is about why the action is not calling the plugin with the step I registered to do so. I want to know if the approach I proposed is possible.

Thanks

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