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Retrieve DateTime field and set it on another entity's DateTime field in Dynamics CRM Plugin

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Hi,

I have a requirement of creating a custom entity on create of an entity, say incident and copy this entity's data to the custom entity.

There are some date time fields which I need to copy the data to the custom entity.

I don't know the syntax for the same, I am doing this through a plugin, On post create.

Kindly suggest.

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    gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

    Hi ,

    Try with this -

                            //Declare Datetime Variable
                        DateTime? dateTimeVar = null;
                        //Retrieve Post Images ,  get the postImage from context
                        Entity postImage = (context.PostEntityImages != null && context.PostEntityImages.Contains("PostImage")) ? context.PostEntityImages["PostImage"] : null;
                        //Retrieve date from PostImages, Replace DateTimeFieldName
                        if (postImage.Attributes.Contains("DateTimeFieldName"))
                        {
                            if (Convert.ToString(postImage.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("DateTimeFieldName")) != "" && (postImage.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("DateTimeFieldName")) != null)
                            {
                                dateTimeVar = postImage.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("DateTimeFieldName");
                            }
                        }



    Hope this helps.

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    Community Member on at

    Hi Goutam,

    I am not using Post Image currently for this plugin. Can I achieve this by retreieving from context?

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    gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

    Yes you can , just replace postimage entity with getting entity from context -

                            //Declare Datetime Variable
                        DateTime? dateTimeVar = null;
                        //Retrieve entity from context
                        Entity _entity = (Entity)_context.InputParameters["Target"];
                    
                        if (_entity.Attributes.Contains("DateTimeFieldName"))
                        {
                            if (Convert.ToString(_entity.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("DateTimeFieldName")) != "" && (_entity.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("DateTimeFieldName")) != null)
                            {
                                dateTimeVar = _entity.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("DateTimeFieldName");
                            }
                        }


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