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Gating Plug-In Execution by User

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Posted on by JaredHooper 215

Hey Everyone,


Right now I've created a plug-in that attaches to the Create and Update messages of Account and Contact. In this, we're assigning a field "jared_last_changed" that's used for our integration with our ERP. We have specific jobs that update the CRM from the outside, and they're all under a specific CRM UserName "misterclean". How would I check to see if the InitiatingUser's UserName is "misterclean"?

Any references that can lead me to an answer is greatly appreciated. Direct answers - doubly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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    Hosk on at

    When a plugin is run it has UserId value in the plugin context

    localContext.PluginExecutionContext.InitiatingUserId

    There are two user values you can get two different user values, explanation taken from this blog post

    http://www.magnetismsolutions.co.nz/blog.aspx/zhenyu-wangs-blog/2012/07/07/the_difference_between_userid_and_initiatinguserid_in_plugin_of_dynamic_crm_2011

    • IExecutionContext.UserId Property: Gets the global unique identifier of the system user for whom the plug-in invokes Web service methods on behalf of. [1]

    • IExecutionContext.InitiatingUserId: Gets the global unique identifier of the system user account under which the current pipeline is executing. [2]

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    ScottDurow 23 on at

    Hi,

    So you'll need to look at the plugin context Initiating User Id and do a query against the SystemUser entity by SystemUserId and return the fullname. msdn.microsoft.com/.../microsoft.xrm.sdk.iexecutioncontext.initiatinguserid.aspx

    I did a post about the initiating user id and the scenarios where it might not be what you expect under some scearios such as workflows updating records- www.develop1.net/.../User-Impersonation-in-Plugins-Workflow-and-Dialogs.aspx

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    Aileen Gusni 44,524 on at

    Jared,

    You can get the ID here:

    IPluginExecutionContext context = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

           IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));

       Guid userId = context.InitiatingUserId;

    With the ID you can get the username from query to system user, you can use query expression, simple entity retrieve by ID, linq or just follow my example here

    string strUserName = service.Retrieve("systemuser", context.InitiatingUserId, new Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query.ColumnSet(true)).Attributes["domainname"].ToString();

    It will return the domain\username which you can compare to misterclean.

    Hope this helps!

    Thank you.

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