portal webapi: create connection record

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Posted on by snowflake1974

I want to create a record in connections entity using portal webapi. I have setup all the necessary permissions , site settings but just not sure how I can pass an entityrefrence in the post. In the plugin my code is :

Entity connection = new Entity();
connection.LogicalName = "connection";
connection.Attributes.Add("record1id", new EntityReference("Contact", "contact_guid_here"));
connection.Attributes.Add("record2id", new EntityReference("Opportunity", "opportnity_guid_here"));
// to fill both the connection role lookups, uncomment the below line
//connection.Attributes.Add("record2roleid", new EntityReference("connectionrole", new Guid(connRoleId)));
connection.Attributes.Add("record1roleid", new EntityReference("connectionrole", new Guid("connectioRole_guid_here")));
service.Create(connection);

In portal I am trying to do something like this but keeps getting 500 error.

function createcontact(){
  
var dataObject={
		"record1id":"18060257-90d2-ec11-a7b6-00224894367a",
		"record2id":"68500f21-3318-4412-8931-70259e7f8462"

};

webapi.safeAjax({
	type: "POST",
	url: "/_api/connections",
	contentType:"application/json",
	data: JSON.stringify(dataObject),
	success: function(res, status, xhr) {
		//print id of newly created entity record
		console.log("entityID: "   xhr.getResponseHeader("entityid"))
	}
});
}

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snowflake1974 5 on at

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RE: portal webapi: create connection record

Fantastic Guido, I did exactly as you said this morning using CRM restbuilder in my 2011 CRM and it worked and I am successfully able to create a connection.
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Guido Preite 54,077 Moderator on at

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RE: portal webapi: create connection record

the syntax will be something like this:

var record = {}; record["record1roleid@odata.bind"] = "/connectionroles(00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000)"; // Lookup record["record1id_contact@odata.bind"] = "/contacts(00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)"; // Lookup record["record2id_opportunity@odata.bind"] = "/opportunities(00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)"; // Lookup webapi.safeAjax({ type: "POST", contentType: "application/json", url: "/_api/connections", data: JSON.stringify(record), success: function (data, textStatus, xhr) { var newId = xhr.getResponseHeader("entityid"); console.log(newId); }, error: function (xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) { console.log(xhr); } });

to generate this kind of Web API you can use my tool Dataverse REST Builder