How to get Attribute type of any field

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Posted on by Pravesh Rai

Hello,

I want a simple code that shows me how to get attribute type of any field.

Example: If a field is Lookup then i get as a result "lookup" OR a field is an Optionset then i get "Optionset".

I used this code but this line show me only type of field like System.Int32 and all

I want code in C#

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Pravesh Rai

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Gopalan Bhuvanesh 11,401 on at

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Hi

You have to use RetrieveAttributeRequest to get the details of an attribute.

Please refer the following:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../microsoft.xrm.sdk.messages.retrieveattributerequest.aspx

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I am using that code for that you modified it that you are saying

Type TYP = (ObjEntity.Attributes[FieldLogical]).GetType();

FieldLogical is already define and entity is Account.

now tell me you suggestion

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Hi

check this it might help you stackoverflow.com/.../how-to-get-field-types-in-ms-crm-2011

Marsk as answer verified, it it works for you

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Mr. Alam, i think you didn't get my question

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Nithya Gopinath 17,078 on at

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Hi Pravesh,

You could write Javascript code to get the attribute type.

Xrm.Page.getAttribute("attributename").getAttributeType();

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I want ans in C# not in Javascript. Getting it

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Hello Pravesh ,

you have to take you code in foreach like below

foreach(AttributeMetadata allattributes in currentEntity.Attributes)

{

//to get attribute type

string type= allattributes.AttributeType.Value.ToString()

}

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Please use AttributeMetadata.AttributeType to get attribute type.

msdn.microsoft.com/.../microsoft.xrm.sdk.metadata.attributemetadata.aspx

Console.WriteLine("Retrieved the attribute {0}.",

attributeResponse.AttributeMetadata.AttributeType);

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Hello Ambar,

This code showing an error in foreach like cannot convert type'system.collection.generic.keyvaluepair<string, object> to microsoft.xrm.sdk.metadata.attributemetadata

can you tell me why its showing this error

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Nithya Gopinath 17,078 on at

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Hi Pravesh,

Try the code below.

RetrieveEntityRequest req = new RetrieveEntityRequest(); req.RetrieveAsIfPublished = true; req.LogicalName = "account"; req.EntityFilters = EntityFilters.Attributes; RetrieveEntityResponse resp = (RetrieveEntityResponse)service.Execute(req); EntityMetadata em = resp.EntityMetadata;
foreach (AttributeMetadata a in em.Attributes) {
if(a.SchemaName == "yourattributename") Console.WriteLine(a.AttributeType); }

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