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Opportunity parentcontactid

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Posted on by Srini20 397

Hi,

I am running into an issue in a common plug-in that i created for Opportunity and Lead (Plugin registered on Create step). I need to read the parentcontactid value in Lead and Opportunity create logic.

After registering the plug-in Lead plug-in works fine but the opportunity plug-in is failing with "parentcontactid doesn't exist for opportunity". I have the contact lookup on both Lead and opportunity form and also on Process Flow section. Below line works fine for Lead but its failing opportunity.  Am i doing any thing wrong? I checked all the name and relationship looks fine but failing with the error for opportunity plug-in

Guid contactid = ((EntityReference)entity.Attributes["parentcontactid"]).Id;  

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    Srini20 Profile Picture
    Srini20 397 on at
    RE: Opportunity parentcontactid

    Thanks, Alex.

  • Srini20 Profile Picture
    Srini20 397 on at
    RE: Opportunity parentcontactid

    Thank you. Its strange but i observed the same thing. I am able to retrieve the form parentcontactid now not sure with the exact problem though i selected the contact some times its not coming entity.Attribute.

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    ashlega Profile Picture
    ashlega 34,477 on at
    RE: Opportunity parentcontactid

    If you are not updating/populating parentcontactid, there will be no such attribute in the Target. Either use pre/post image, or do a Retrieve..

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    Aric Levin - MVP Profile Picture
    Aric Levin - MVP 30,188 Moderator on at
    RE: Opportunity parentcontactid

    Hi,

    Are you using Target to get the entity or are you calling service.Retrieve to retrieve the entity?

    If you are unable to see the attribute try using service.Retrieve(entityName, entityId, columns) and see if you are getting results.

    Sometime using Target doesn't retrieve the results that you are looking for.

    Hope this helps.

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