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Posted on by Pete_N

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I have a plugin which reads a file and extracts data from several crm entities to create a new record in a third entity

when I query the lookup field in entity a, I get a string of the id back into the plugin, how do I convert this back to a entity reference to insert in to the new record in entity B

I have tried

Dim LicenceGuid As New Guid

Guid.TryParse(ImportReturnElements(2).ToString, LicenceGuid)

but that throes up an exception

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abvogel 150 on at

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RE: Plugin lookup

TryParse should be able to parse it and set the value to LicenseGuid. Can you confirm that "ImportReturnElements(2).ToString" returns a valid string? Should it be .ToString()?
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Yadnyesh Kuvalekar 4,102 on at

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EntityEeference er = new EntityEeference("entitylogicalname",new Guid("string guid"));
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Drew Poggemann 9,079 on at

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RE: Plugin lookup

Hi PeteN,

Please look at the following example, I think this is what you need to do:

[View:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg509009.aspx:750:50]

It shows very similar examples of connecting products to the opportunity.

// Create another catalog product and override the list price

OpportunityProduct catalogProductPriceOverride = new OpportunityProduct

{

OpportunityId = new EntityReference(Opportunity.EntityLogicalName,

_opportunityId),

ProductId = new EntityReference(Product.EntityLogicalName,

_product2Id),

UoMId = new EntityReference(UoM.EntityLogicalName, _defaultUnitId),

Quantity = 3,

Tax = new Money(2.88m),

IsPriceOverridden = true,

PricePerUnit = new Money(12)

};

Hope this helps.

Thanks,