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Posted on by Abdul Wahab

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Hi all,

How may I get primary field UI name in c#?

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M I Mostafa 4,257 on at

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Hi Abdul Wahab,

If you mean the "Display name" of a field. You can go to Dynamics 365 --> Settings --> customisations --> open your solution (either default or your own solution) and then you need to navigate to the entity --> fields and you can see the display name there.

Here is a screenshot of the value you are after:

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Gopalan Bhuvanesh 11,401 on at

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If you are in the form, open the Form Editor double click the primary field and in that go to the properties of the field.

Or go to Settings and find out the details.

You want to retrieve the display name of the field using c#?

You will have to query Metadata.

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi Abdul,

one other thing to consider.. you don't need uiname to run fetchXml queries. You can just remove it from that xml.

If you do need to get metadata info in the c# code (and you don't want to hardcode it), then you can use RetrieveAttributeRequest SDK "request" - that will give you RetrieveAttributeResponse, and, from there, you can go to the attribute metadata which will have a display name(which is a label, btw, so it can be language-specific):

msdn.microsoft.com/.../microsoft.xrm.sdk.metadata.attributemetadata.displayname.aspx

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Nithya Gopinath 17,078 on at

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Hi Abdul Wahab,

Simply go to Settings >> Customization >> Customize The System, and select the entity. After that select entity fields then you will get a list of all the entity fields. Select the fields you require and the Schema Name of the field can be correspondingly seen in the list.

Hope this helps.

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Abdul Wahab 12,119 Moderator on at

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Hi Nithya, Alex, Gopalan and Mohamed

I need this "eq" uiname="2" from this "quoteid" operator="eq" uiname="2" uitype="quote" value="{70331B62-7FAA-E611-AC7D-005056C00008}"

I used this code but don't know How to find "eq" uiname="2" with the help of c# code. I need to filter my this fetch xml:

"<fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' distinct='false'>"+
" <entity name='quote'>"+
" <attribute name='statecode' />"+
" <attribute name='statuscode' />"+
" <attribute name='quoteid' />"+
" <order attribute='statecode' descending='false' />"+
" <filter type='and'>"+
" <condition attribute='quoteid' operator='eq' uiname='" + uiname + "' uitype='quote' value='" + uivalue + "' />"+
" </filter>"+
" </entity>"+
"</fetch>";

for that purpose I need these two things.

Guid QuoteID = new Guid("{397E3C0E-66D9-DD11-A6F4-0014223ED1B7}");

RetrieveRequest QuoteRequest = new RetrieveRequest();

QuoteRequest.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(new string[] { "statecode", "statuscode", "quoteid",});

QuoteRequest.Target = new EntityReference("quote", QuoteID);

Entity RetrieveQuote = (Entity)((RetrieveResponse)_service.Execute(QuoteRequest)).Entity;

if (RetrieveQuote.Contains("quoteid") && RetrieveQuote.Contains("statecode"))

{

int StatusValueOfQuote = ((OptionSetValue)RetrieveQuote["statecode"]).Value;

Guid QuoteName = (GUID)RetrieveQuote["quoteid"];

}

quoteid only giving me GUID = 70331B62-7FAA-E611-AC7D-005056C00008 but not uiName. I have GUID, I need uiName.

The quotenumber field gives me the uiname. Is it correct to get uiname from quotenumber field? Or is there any other way?

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Nithya Gopinath 17,078 on at

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Hi Abdul Wahab,

The display name of the quotenumber field is Quote ID.

I guess this is the field you are looking for.

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi Abdul,

Like I said, I think you are over complicating this. Just remove uiname=.. from your fetch - it will work.

Remove uitype as well:) You only need condition operator, attribute, and value

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gupta.ambar2009@gma... 797 on at

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Hello Abdul,

To access name you just write below code

//Create Object of Enity Reference
EntityReference Ref = new EntityReference("quote", Guid of Quote);

//Get name by

Ref.Name

/ Ambar

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hi,

you can just add the 'name' of the quote in the columnset

QuoteRequest.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(new string[] { "statecode", "statuscode", "quoteid","name"});

it gives u the name of the quote right. uiname is just the name of the record.

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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Hi Ambar,

That's not going to work - you have to read that name from crm first.

Abdul, if you do need the name(and you don't for that fetch), you need to add "name" attribute to the columns first, and, then, you need to read it from the retrievequote

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