How to update the ActivityParty of an existing appointment using dynamics 365 webapi v9.0

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Posted on by Jonathan Baettig

I would like to update the ActivityParty of an already existing appointment in dynamics 365 9.0 using the webapi v9.0. My goal is to update the required attendees and the optional attendees field.

I am trying to create a PUT request as described in the documentation of the webapi under Associate entities on update using collection-valued navigation property.

docs.microsoft.com/.../associate-disassociate-entities-using-web-api

Below you find the code i am using:

var activity = {};
var parties = [];

var requiredAttendee = {};
requiredAttendee["partyid_lead@odata.bind"] = "/leads(3fcc8c7b-e38d-e911-90f8-005056879361)";
requiredAttendee["participationtypemask"] = 5;

var optionalAttendee = {};
optionalAttendee["partyid_account@odata.bind"] = "/accounts(2e1261de-77cf-4f9b-a1bb-ff3a1f5a4add)";
optionalAttendee["participationtypemask"] = 6;

parties.push(requiredAttendee);
parties.push(optionalAttendee);

activity["value"] = parties;

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
           req.open("PUT", Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/api/data/v9.0/appointments(20064d15-728e-e911-90f8-005056879361)/appointment_activity_parties", true);
           req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
           req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
           req.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
           req.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
           req.onreadystatechange = function () {
               if (this.readyState === 4) {
                   req.onreadystatechange = null;
                   if (this.status === 204) {
                   } else {
                       Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(this.statusText);
                   }
               }
           };
           req.send(JSON.stringify(activity));

I would expect that the request is successful. However i get a Bad Request with the following error message:

An error occurred while validating input parameters: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Web.OData.Formatter.Deserialization.ODataResourceWrapper' to type 'System.Web.OData.Formatter.Deserialization.ODataNestedResourceInfoWrapper'.

Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

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Macoy 275 on at

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Hi Jonathan,

Try this

var requiredAttendee = {};

requiredAttendee["partyid_lead@odata.bind"] = "/leads(3fcc8c7b-e38d-e911-90f8-005056879361)";

requiredAttendee["participationtypemask"] = 5;

var optionalAttendee = {};

optionalAttendee["partyid_account@odata.bind"] = "/accounts(2e1261de-77cf-4f9b-a1bb-ff3a1f5a4add)";

optionalAttendee["participationtypemask"] = 6;

var data =

{

"requiredattendees": requiredAttendee,

"optionalattendees": optionalAttendee

}

// update the record

Xrm.WebApi.updateRecord("appointment", "20064d15-728e-e911-90f8-005056879361", data).then(

function success(result) {

console.log("appointment updated");

// perform operations on record update

},

function (error) {

console.log(error.message);

// handle error conditions

}

);

Regards,

Macoy

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Jonathan Baettig on at

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Hi Macoy

Thank you for your answer and sorry for my late response.

Unfortunately, updating the fields "requiredattendees" and "optionalattendees" directly on the appointment does not work neither. I get the following error when executing your example:

An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: Does not support untyped value in non-open type.

I think updating the party fields directly on the appointment entity is generally not possible. There must be a way to associate the activity party to my appointment like described in the link i added to my post...

Best regards,

Jonathan

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pawin 249 on at

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Did you resolve this? I'm getting the same

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Saad Kabarousse 734 on at

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Hello,

i would suggest to send two requests the first is (Retrieve ActivityParties associated to ur acitivity ) the second is an update request as shown below :

var entity = {};
entity["partyid_account@odata.bind"] = "/accounts(66586A0-4222-EA11-B806-001DD8B71D5E)";
entity["activityid@odata.bind"] = "/activitypointers(81DF86A0-4222-EA11-B806-001DD8B71D5E)";

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("PATCH", Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/api/data/v8.2/activityparties(81DF86A0-4222-EA11-B806-001DD8B71D5E)", true);
req.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
req.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState === 4) {
req.onreadystatechange = null;
if (this.status === 204) {
//Success - No Return Data - Do Something
} else {
Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(this.statusText);
}
}
};
req.send(JSON.stringify(entity));

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You can't retrieve activity parties:

Invoke-RestMethod : {"error":{"code":"0x80040800","message":"The 'Retrieve' method does not support entities of type 'activityparty'

And if I try to add activity parties to an activity with what you've got, I get:

Invoke-RestMethod : {"error":{"code":"0x0","message":"An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: Does not support untyped value in non-open type

That was sending this as the body:

$userActivityParty = @{

"partyid_systemuser@odata.bind" = "/systemusers($userId)"

"activityid@odata.bind" = "/activitypointers($appointmentId)"

"participationtypemask" = 5

}

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I've got it working by following http://himbap.com/blog/?p=2557

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