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Programmatically set user to follow a record (postfollow entity)

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Hi,

In my plugin I want to create  a record of postfollow entity. I want to be able to set a user to follow a record, for example User A to follow Opportunity B.

Problem is that if we specify "owninguser" attribute in the postfollow object, no create is being made (but no exception is thrown). If I just specify "regardingobjectid" attribute it works, but then it will be my user (running user) that will be the owner of the postfollow record ; i.e. it will be me who is following the Opportunity..

AssignRequest does not allow postfollow entity to be specified either, so we can't create it for running user and assign it to a new owner..

All information I've found online just state that you can set owner and regarding record to create the follow-relationship between the two. 

Please help

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  • Deepesh161 Profile Picture
    Deepesh161 6,317 on at

    Can you put your code here?

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    Community Member on at

    Hi, sure.

    Guid userid = new Guid("188A3D7C-3064-E411-943C-00155D029D1F");

    Guid pitch = new Guid("D9728515-CC7E-E411-943F-00155D029D1F");

    Entity postfollow = new Entity("postfollow");

    postfollow.Attributes["regardingobjectid"] = new EntityReference("opportunity", pitch);

    postfollow.Attributes["owninguser"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", userid);

    Guid postfollowId = service.Create(postfollow);

    And this is what I tried to see if we could assign the postfollow to the correct user after creating it (which does not work, because the entity cannot be assigned).

    //AssignRequest assign = new AssignRequest

    //{

    //    Assignee = new EntityReference("systemuser",

    //        userid),

    //    Target = new EntityReference("postfollow",

    //        postfollowId)

    //};

    I also tried with "createdonbehalfby" instead of owninguser, but with no success.

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    Deepesh161 6,317 on at

    Please correct this line and it will work fine:

    Use  postfollow.Attributes["ownerid"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", userid);

    instead of postfollow.Attributes["owninguser"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", userid);

    I checked and it works fine.

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