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Get GUID of an account using C#

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Posted on by Mohsin Ali 3,634

hi I've to set the parent account look up in the contacts. So, I've only the account name. I'm here to grab an idea to set the parent account field value using the account name only using C#

I need your kind help in this manner.

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    Aileen Gusni Profile Picture
    Aileen Gusni 44,524 on at

    Mohsin,

    You must do query with account name as keyword, query to account entity.

    But, it might return result more than 1 if it is not unique

    Example here;

    community.dynamics.com/.../151023

    Your output here is to get the id by name.

    Hope this helps,

    Thanks.

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    Mahendar Pal Profile Picture
    Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

    Hello,

    You can use following code:

    QueryByAttribute querybyattribute = new QueryByAttribute("account");

    querybyattribute.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet("name", "accountnumber");

    //  Attribute to query.

     querybyattribute.Attributes.AddRange("name");

     querybyattribute.Values.AddRange("Accountname"); //replace this with account name

     Entity accountEntity = service.RetrieveMultiple(querybyattribute).Entities.FirstOrDefault();

     if(accountEntity!= null)

       Guid accountID=accountEntity.Id;

    Thanks

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    Mohsin Ali Profile Picture
    Mohsin Ali 3,634 on at

    Hi Gusni Thank you for your comment. I'm done this using the following code snippet.

    //Query for the GUID of the Account using Account Name
QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression("account");
    string[] cols = { "accountid", "name" };
    query.Criteria = new FilterExpression();
    query.Criteria.AddCondition("name", ConditionOperator.Equal, accountName);
    query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(cols);
    var account = services.RetrieveMultiple(query);
//Casting the reference to GUID
    Guid accountId = (Guid)account[0].Attributes["accountid"];
	
//specify the field values
	Entity contact = new Entity("contact");
    contact.Attributes["firstname"] = "ContactFirstName";
    contact.Attributes["lastname"] = "ContactLastName";
    //Assign Value to the Lookup Field
    contact["parentcustomerid"] = new EntityReference("account", accountId);
//Execute the create service
    Guid contactId = services.Create(contact);
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    Saddamk206 Profile Picture
    Saddamk206 777 on at

    //Query for the GUID of the Account using Account Name

    QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression("account");

    //Retrieve  Guid List

    EntityCollection  accounts = organizationService.RetrieveMultiple(query);

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    Saddamk206 777 on at

    Get Value of Lookup fields

    EntityReference entref = (EntityReference)item.Attributes[attributeName];

    var LookupId = entref.Id;

    var logicalName = entref.LogicalName;

    Set Value of Lookup fields

    newAccount[attributeName] = new EntityReference(logicalName, LookupId);

    Set Null Value of Lookup fields

    newAccount[attributeName] = Null;

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