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How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

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I have requirement to retrieve entity attributes through plugin. What are the ways to implement that.

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RE: How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

You can retrieve entity attributes using below method

RetrieveEntityRequest req= new RetrieveEntityRequest { EntityFilters = EntityFilters.Entity, LogicalName = "EntityLogicalName" // like "account" }; RetrieveEntityResponse res= (RetrieveEntityResponse)_serviceProxy.Execute(req

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RE: How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

Hi Abhishek,

Are you asking for attribute values within an entity or just the name of attribute.

Please see if following URL helps:

stackoverflow.com/.../dynamics-crm-plugin-retrieve-related-entity-attributes-value

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg334708.aspx

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg309673.aspx

I would suggest you to use SOAP service, it might help

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RE: How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

Hi, I need attributes name suppose i select account then i can have a list of attributes of it or if i select contact then i can have a list of contact attributes.

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RE: How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

Hi Abhishek,

I think Chitra's suggestion would work, have you tried

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RE: How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

Yes, but i am getting the Attribute property as null. Moreover there is a entity name Metadata.Attribute which contains the list of attributes related to the entities. So look like there must be some way to retrieve it.

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RE: How to retrieve list of entities attributes in CRM

Here is the complete code to get attribute names of an entity.

RetrieveEntityRequest req= new RetrieveEntityRequest

{

EntityFilters = EntityFilters.Entity,

LogicalName = "EntityLogicalName" // like "account"

};

RetrieveEntityResponse res= (RetrieveEntityResponse)_serviceProxy.Execute(req

);

EntityMetadata currentEntity = res.EntityMetadata;

foreach(AttributeMetadata attribute in currentEntity.Attributes)

{

var attributeName = attribute .LogicalName;

}

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RetrieveEntityRequest req = new RetrieveEntityRequest();

req.EntityFilters = EntityFilters.Attributes;

req.LogicalName = "account";

RetrieveEntityResponse res = (RetrieveEntityResponse)_service.Execute(req);

EntityMetadata currentEntity1 = res.EntityMetadata;

foreach (AttributeMetadata attribute in currentEntity1.Attributes)

{

Console.WriteLine(attribute.SchemaName);

}

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