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How to create field that can hold multiple entity reference?

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Posted on by Ashish Moradiya 515

Hello,

In Opportunity entity there is a field named "customerid", Which can hold reference of either Account entity or Contact entity. this is something unusual (but interesting). See document here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328229(v=crm.5).aspx

See field definition in below image : 

0564.Relationship.png

Basically I want to create similar field for my custom Entity that can hold reference of multiple entity reference (more than two entity). How can I achieve it?

Any suggestion greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Ashish

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    ashlega 34,477 on at

    Hi Ashish,

     there used to be no this possibility at all in Dynamics until recently.. It's possible to create a field of "customer" type now. But that's the extent of it. You can't create a custom field that would be able to reference different entities (other than the "customer" field).

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    Alex is correct, there is no current capability to do this.  

    A similar capability is available on an entity that is an 'Activity' type, in the 'regarding' field.  Would that work for your use case?

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    Meena Kannan 232 on at

    Hi Ashish,

    This feature is not available in MSCRM.

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    roo 40 on at

    This short post is to deletion (wrong topic answer).

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    why not using a select-options, a drop down, with multiple selection?

    the list data source can be any entity object, you need only two valued, id and label value.

    in the database, the selected id's can be stored like { 224, 678, 332, 456, 887 }.  

    super easy

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