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Scenario - lets say you develop a plugin for contact entity for update message, there are 10 attributes on the form and you update the last name and if you register in Pre-event
lIn which property are the entity details available? and what fields are available? how to update a attribute that is not in the form?

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Aric Levin - MVP 30,190 Moderator on at

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Hi Aniket,

The Target entity will always contain the values being modified in the current pipeline - irrespective of stage. So you can access the modified values in the Pre-Operation.

You can add additional values to the Target entity using the following:

entity.Attributes.Add(attributeName, attributeValue);

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Alex Fun Wei Jie 33,628 on at

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Hi,

Entity entity=(Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

entity.Attributes.Add("new_salesid", "123"); <-- one of the sample code

stackoverflow.com/.../plugin-pre-operation-create-update-field-error

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Hi Aniket,

If you update a field says "field A" on a record and have a plugin registered on Pre/Update then-

1. You will get the the attribute value under the target property i.e.

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Entity updatedRecord = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

var name = updatedRecord["name"].ToString();

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2. Only the field which are updated will be available in the Target. So if you have updated field A, B C then only these fields will be present.

3. It is not required to have a field on form to update. You can simply update any field i.e.

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Entity recordToUpdate = new Entity("account", _accountId);

recordToUpdate["name"] = "New Name";

service.update(recordToUpdate);

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You may want to refer the images concepts in plugin as it seems like you want to retrieve the values which are not updated.

crmbook.powerobjects.com/.../plug-in-images-pre-vs-post

community.dynamics.com/.../utilising-pre-post-entity-images-in-a-dynamics-crm-plugin

Also, there is a concept of filtering the atrribute during the plugin registeration i.e. if you want to trigger your plugin only when certain field are updated (and not all), you can set filtering the the plugin step-

community.dynamics.com/.../use-of-filtering-attributes-in-plugin-registration

community.dynamics.com/.../crm-2011-2013-2015-mastering-plugin-registration-filtering-attributes

Hope this helps.

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Hi Ravi,

Thanks for ur explaination

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Rajkumar Rajaraman on at

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Refer this:

community.dynamics.com/.../use-of-filtering-attributes-in-plugin-registration

community.dynamics.com/.../crm-2011-2013-2015-mastering-plugin-registration-filtering-attributes

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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You will not want your plugim to trigger always if the the field which is ipdated doesnt concern you plugin logic.

Example assuming you have a pligin which create a task when some field is changed, if you dont set attribute filtering then you plugim will trigger even if yoir field hasnt change

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