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Error creating Incidents "CRM do not support direct update of Entity Reference properties, Use Navigation properties instead"

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We are trying to use CRM api to create incident. we have data source but we are not able to process the request due to below errors. 

When we submit create a new incident using postman we get a response with the error "You should specify a parent contact or account"

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If we add the parameter CustomerId (name as "_customerid_value" in the list of incidents if you request this same method with a get protocol) , we get the error "CRM do not support direct update of Entity Reference properties, Use Navigation properties instead."

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After some research an article with a similar mistake shows an idea of how to solve the problem

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we try to set the CustomerId using the odata.bind but there is no "Customer" method to pass the id to get an object, we are not sure either if "_customerid_value" is the correct property to set the customer 

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    you can use my tool Dataverse REST Builder to create the request, you can also export to Postman the request

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