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Posted on by Pete_N 1,703

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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    Drew Poggemann Profile Picture
    Drew Poggemann 4 on at

    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,

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    Yadnyesh Kuvalekar Profile Picture
    Yadnyesh Kuvalekar 4,102 on at

    EntityEeference er = new EntityEeference("entitylogicalname",new Guid("string guid"));

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    abvogel Profile Picture
    abvogel 150 on at

    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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