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Unable to set certain fields on entity creation

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hi all,

I am trying to use the Dynamics web API to create a simple lead entity.  I'm having trouble with my request based on a field I'm trying to set.  The request looks like:

POST https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/leads

{
"subject": "topic",
"lastname": "lastname",
"accountid@odata.bind": "/accounts(<GUID>)"
}

It's the last field that is tripping me up.  I know that in order to create an entity reference the format must be in the form above, and indeed this does work with other fields (such as contactid).  The error I'm seeing is:

{
"error": {
"code": "0x0",
"message": "An error occurred while validating input parameters: Microsoft.OData.ODataException: An undeclared property 'accountid' which only has property annotations in the payload but no property value was found in the payload. In OData, only declared navigation properties and declared named streams can be represented as properties without values."

}

What could I be doing wrong? I've already referenced

 https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/203648 ,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/developer/webapi/create-entity-web-api#associate-entities-on-create 

to no avail.

Thanks for any and all help.  

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  • justjags Profile Picture
    justjags 17 on at
    RE: Unable to set certain fields on entity creation
    [quote user="Arun Vinoth"]

    You have to use the single valued navigation property customerid_accountcustomerid_contact@odata.bind to map. There’s no accountid property.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../lead

    Try to use CRM Rest builder to avoid such issues.

    [/quote]

    Thanks! This was driving me nuts.

    Nowhere in CRM or even webservice metadata XML was this navigation property name correctly visible.

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    SSamuel Profile Picture
    SSamuel 15 on at
    RE: Unable to set certain fields on entity creation

    Please try to provide the schema name of the look up. Note, that this is case sensitive.

    "AccountId@odata.bind": "/accounts(<GUID>)"
  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Unable to set certain fields on entity creation

    Hi,

    I am also facing the same issue while creating record in an entity. I have used CRM rest builder to achieve this but no success.

    If I am not including any lookup field while creating record, it creates the record successfully. But not creates the record if lookup is included.

    Can anyone suggest what is the reason for this?

    Thanks

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    RaviKashyap Profile Picture
    RaviKashyap 55,410 on at
    RE: Unable to set certain fields on entity creation

    Hi,

    If you are trying to set the value for Existing Account field then you can use the below code (generated from rest builder)-

    ================

    var entity = {};

    entity.subject = "test";

    entity.lastname = "test last";

    entity["parentaccountid@odata.bind"] = "/accounts(F6E4610A-8D9B-E811-811E-E0071B685A91)";

    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();

    req.open("POST", Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/api/data/v8.2/leads", 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) {

               var uri = this.getResponseHeader("OData-EntityId");

               var regExp = /\(([^)]+)\)/;

               var matches = regExp.exec(uri);

               var newEntityId = matches[1];

           } else {

               Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(this.statusText);

           }

       }

    };

    req.send(JSON.stringify(entity));

    ==================

    Hope this helps.

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    Arun Vinoth Profile Picture
    Arun Vinoth 11,613 on at
    RE: Unable to set certain fields on entity creation

    You have to use the single valued navigation property customerid_accountcustomerid_contact@odata.bind to map. There’s no accountid property.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../lead

    Try to use CRM Rest builder to avoid such issues.

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    Adrian Begovich Profile Picture
    Adrian Begovich 21,009 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Unable to set certain fields on entity creation

    Hi pikav,

    Try using this instead.

    POST https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/leads

```

{
"subject": "topic",
"lastname": "lastname",
"accountid@odata.bind": "http://[Organization URI]/api/data/v9.0/accounts(<GUID>)"
}

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