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Create a record and associate it to related record in same executemultiplerequest

I have written a custom logic in post create of custom entity(Entity A), in which i'm creating few child records(Entity B) and associating them to Entity A using executemultiplerequest(CreateRequest) . I get a fault in the response, saying "Entity A with guid doesn't exists". But the same logic will work if I use IOrganizationService.Create method. Please help me in knowing why executemultiplerequest doesn't work.

Below is the code:

EntityCollection itemResourceCollection = RetrieveItemResources(itemResources, xrmService);

public virtual EntityCollection RetrieveItemResources(List<EntityItemResource> itemResources, XrmService xrmService)
{
var itemResourceCollection = new EntityCollection();

foreach (var itemResource in itemResources)
{
var entityItemResource = new Entity("new_resource");

entityItemResource.Attributes.Add("new_jobcardid", this.ToEntityReference());
//"this" is the target entity
foreach (var attributes in itemResource.ItemResourceFields)
{
if (attributes.Type == Constants.EntityReference)
{
var entityReference = RetrieveEntityReferenceForLookup(attributes.LookUpEntity, attributes.SearchField, attributes.AttributeValue, xrmService);
entityItemResource.Attributes.Add(attributes.AttributeName, entityReference);
}

else if (attributes.Type == Constants.optionset)
{
entityItemResource.Attributes.Add(attributes.AttributeName, new OptionSetValue(Convert.ToInt32(attributes.AttributeValue)));
}

else if (attributes.Type == Constants.money)
{
entityItemResource.Attributes.Add(attributes.AttributeName, new Money(Convert.ToDecimal(attributes.AttributeValue)));
}

else if (attributes.Type == Constants.WholeNumber)
{
entityItemResource[attributes.AttributeName] = Convert.ToInt32(attributes.AttributeValue);
}

else
{
entityItemResource[attributes.AttributeName] = attributes.AttributeValue;
}
}

itemResourceCollection.Entities.AddRange(entityItemResource);
}

return itemResourceCollection;
}