Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Integration, Dataverse...

Plugin to calculate age from birthday C#

(0) Share

Report

Posted on by Community Member

Hi, I want to know the code to do this, i'm learning CRM by myself and I am a little loss, the basic code in C# is like this:

DateTime birthdate = new DateTime(1991, 9, 05);
DateTime today = DateTime.Today;
int age = today.Year - birthdate.Year;;

Console.WriteLine(age);

I want to know how would it be to get the attribute birthday in a plugin and calculate age from that, and then set the new value.

I already did it with JavaScript, now I want to do it with C# (plugin).

Thanks in advance!

I have the same question (0)

All responses (5)

Answers (0)

Suggested answer

LeoAlt 16,331 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi partner,

If you want to use C# to do this, you could refer to my code here.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.ServiceModel;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;

namespace plugin2._0
{
    public class Birthday : IPlugin
    {
        public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
        {
            // Obtain the tracing service
            ITracingService tracingService =
            (ITracingService)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITracingService));

            // Obtain the execution context from the service provider.
            IPluginExecutionContext context = (IPluginExecutionContext)
                serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

            // The InputParameters collection contains all the data passed in the message request.
            if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") &&
                context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)
            {
                // Obtain the target entity from the input parameters.
                Entity entity = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

                // Obtain the organization service reference which you will need for
                // web service calls.
                IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory =
                    (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));
                IOrganizationService service = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

                try
                {
                    var birthday = entity["new_birthday1"].ToString();
                    var dateBirthday = Convert.ToDateTime(birthday);
                    var now = DateTime.Now;
                    int age = now.Year - dateBirthday.Year;
                    entity["new_age"] = age;

                    service.Update(entity);

                }

                catch (FaultException<OrganizationServiceFault> ex)
                {
                    throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(ex.InnerException.ToString(), ex);
                }

                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    tracingService.Trace("FollowUpPlugin: {0}", ex.ToString());
                    throw;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

You could register this plugin in pre-operation or post-operation update the record.

For more description about plug-in, please refer to the following links.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/common-data-service/org-service/entity-operations-update-delete

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/common-data-service/org-service/samples/basic-followup-plugin

Hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Leo

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Community Member on at

Like (0)

Report

Thank you very much, but are you getting the birthday attribute from the contact's field? Because it seems that you are creating a new one:

try

{

var birthday = entity["new_birthday1"].ToString();

var dateBirthday = Convert.ToDateTime(birthday);

var now = DateTime.Now;

int age = now.Year - dateBirthday.Year;

entity["new_age"] = age;

service.Update(entity);

}

Or should I put birthdate instead of "new_birthday1"?

Again, thank you very much!

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Community Member on at

Like (0)

Report

@Leo Zhang

Thank you very much, but are you getting the birthday attribute from the contact's field? Because it seems that you are creating a new one:

try

{

var birthday = entity["new_birthday1"].ToString();

var dateBirthday = Convert.ToDateTime(birthday);

var now = DateTime.Now;

int age = now.Year - dateBirthday.Year;

entity["new_age"] = age;

service.Update(entity);

}

Or should I put birthdate instead of "new_birthday1"?

Again, thank you very much!

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
LeoAlt 16,331 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi partner,

The "new_birthday1" was a new custom field created by myself. You should replace the correct field name in your instance.

Best Regards,

Leo

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Suggested answer

LeoAlt 16,331 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi partner,

Sorry that the last answer I provided may casue some issues.

I've updated the code here.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Client;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Discovery;

namespace plugin2._0
{
    public class UpdateFax : IPlugin
    {
        public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
        {
            //Extract the tracing service for use in debugging sandboxed plug-ins.
            ITracingService tracingService =
                (ITracingService)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITracingService));

            // Obtain the execution context from the service provider.
            IPluginExecutionContext context = (IPluginExecutionContext)
                serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));
            // Get a reference to the Organization service.
            IOrganizationServiceFactory factory =
                (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));

            IOrganizationServiceFactory servicefactory =
                (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));
            IOrganizationService client = servicefactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

            // The InputParameters collection contains all the data passed in the message request.
            if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)
            {
                // Obtain the target entity from the input parameters.
                Entity entity = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

                // Verify that the target entity represents an account.
                // If not, this plug-in was not registered correctly.
                if (context.Depth > 1) return;
                if (entity.LogicalName == "account")
                {
                    try
                    {
                        string birthday = string.Empty;
                        if (entity.Attributes.Contains("new_birthday1"))
                        {
                            birthday = entity.GetAttributeValue<DateTime>("new_birthday1").ToString();
                        }
                        var dateBirthday = Convert.ToDateTime(birthday);
                        var now = DateTime.Now;
                        int age = now.Year - dateBirthday.Year;
                        entity["new_age"] = age;
                    }
                    catch (Exception e)
                    {
                        tracingService.Trace("accountPlugin: {0}", e.ToString());
                        throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(e.Message);
                    }
                }
                else
                    return;

            }

        }

    }
}

Hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Leo

Was this reply helpful? Yes No