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I am cloning a record when I checked the audit history service. create is called twice, I can see create twice in audit history. I am callin action and recordid as input and guid as output parameter to action.

public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
{
ITracingService tracingService = (ITracingService)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITracingService));
IPluginExecutionContext context = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));
IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));
IOrganizationService service = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);
try
{
if (context == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("localContext");
tracingService.Trace("Read input entity reference");
var target = ((EntityReference)context.InputParameters["SourceRecord"]);

tracingService.Trace("Get input Entity to clone");

//return the entity of the entity reference passed in
var inputEntity = service.Retrieve(target.LogicalName, target.Id, new ColumnSet(true));

tracingService.Trace("Create output entity");
//create new entity to pass back
var outputEntity = new Entity(inputEntity.LogicalName);

//call to map input entity attirbutes to output entity attributes
outputEntity = CloneData(inputEntity, outputEntity);

tracingService.Trace("Create parent record");
//Call to create the new record
Guid clonedEntGuid = service.Create(outputEntity);

//query to get all related child records

var query = new QueryExpression("new_sam");
query.Criteria.AddCondition(new ConditionExpression("new_plrequest", ConditionOperator.Equal, inputEntity.Id));
query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(true);

tracingService.Trace("query child records");
var inputChildren = service.RetrieveMultiple(query);
if (!inputChildren.Entities.Any())
{
tracingService.Trace("No Child records, output parameter sent to action");
//Return the record guid as an output parameter.
context.OutputParameters["ClonedRecord"] = clonedEntGuid.ToString();
}
if(inputChildren.Entities.Any())
{
tracingService.Trace(string.Format("loop through child records count ... {0}", inputChildren.Entities.Count.ToString()));

//otherwise loop through children
foreach (var inputChild in inputChildren.Entities)
{
//create child record
var outputChild = new Entity(inputChild.LogicalName);

//call to clone input and output attributes
CloneData(inputChild, outputChild);

//relate parent and child record

outputChild.Attributes["new_plrequest"] = new EntityReference(outputEntity.LogicalName, clonedEntGuid);
//Create child record
service.Create(outputChild);
tracingService.Trace("child records created");

}

tracingService.Trace("Created child records and parent recordid sent as output parameter ");
//Return the entity reference as an output parameter.
context.OutputParameters["ClonedRecord"] = clonedEntGuid.ToString();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(String.Format("{0} Change Request: {1} {2}",
context.MessageName,
ex.Message, ex.InnerException));
}
}

private Entity CloneData(Entity inputEntity, Entity outputEntity)
{
//loop through each key in the passed in entity and assign value to the new entity
foreach (string key in inputEntity.Attributes.Keys)
{
//Status Codes and State codes are ignored we want these to be set to default value
if (key == "statuscode" || key == "statecode") continue;

//switch statement to handle most entity types note child related entitites are ignored
switch (inputEntity.Attributes[key].GetType().ToString())
{
case "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.EntityReference":
outputEntity.Attributes[key] = inputEntity.GetAttributeValue<EntityReference>(key);
break;
case "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OptionSetValue":
outputEntity.Attributes[key] = inputEntity.GetAttributeValue<OptionSetValue>(key);
break;
case "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Money":
outputEntity.Attributes[key] = new Money(inputEntity.GetAttributeValue<Money>(key).Value);

break;
case "System.Guid":
//Don't set this, this is the Id record and a new one will be generated automatically
break;
default:
outputEntity.Attributes[key] = inputEntity.Attributes[key];
break;
}
}

return outputEntity;
}
}

how to stop calling service.create twice in cloning a record.

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