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Primary field of an entity in Generic Plugin

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Posted on by Praveen Pesaramilli 40

Hi Team,

I would like to write a sample generic plugin (Ex: Task Creation) on create of ANY entity record.
I would like to use the primary field of that particular entity on which this plugin get registered.

Any idea, how to get the primary field of any entity(Schema names of primary field varies with the entities).

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    Prashant_ Profile Picture
    Prashant_ 1,040 on at

    Hi Praveen, You can register plugina and steps using sdk following link will help you to understand it.

    https://www.magnetismsolutions.com/blog/gayanperera/2016/03/03/register-crm-2016-plugins-and-steps-programmatically

    Now to get all entities and there primary field name you have to query meta data .following link might hep you

    stackoverflow.com/.../dynamics-crm-how-to-get-list-of-all-entities

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    Alex Fun Wei Jie Profile Picture
    Alex Fun Wei Jie 33,628 on at

    Hi,

    you can get the primary field via below article. You have to use metadata.

    blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/.../understanding-crm-metadata-primarykey-and-primaryfield

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