Using multiple entities in plug-in code?

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Hello,

As much as I understand for a plug-in is only possible to use the attributes of the entity that was registered. My question refers to if is possible to use not only attributes of the entity that was registered, also take take from any other entity?

I need it, cause I require to validate some data against data from another entity. If is possible, how can I do that?

Thank you very much,

Greetings.

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Mahadeo Matre 17,021 on at

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yes.. you need to retrieve another entity data in plugin.

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Brad Sprigg 985 on at

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Hi Ken

Yes, typically you would use the Retrieve or RetrieveMultiple message to gather the records you need. See link below from the SDK.

msdn.microsoft.com/.../microsoft.xrm.sdk.iorganizationservice.retrieve.aspx

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Brad

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nghieppham 4,755 on at

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Hi Ken15,

You can do that. If this entity is EntityReference and it is presented, you can use context.target["RelateEntities"] to get the value. Other way, you can retrieve by condition of your triggered entity.

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I discovered that is possible to use all the entities that are currently linked to the entity that the plug-in is referring.

I could do this by using this code:

EntityReference entRefMyEntity = null; try { if (entPartner.Contains("NameOfAttribute")) { entRefMyEntity = entPartner.GetAttributeValue<EntityReference>("ownerid"); Entity entMyRelatedEntity = PluginHelper.GetContact(service, entRefMyEntity); if (entRefMyEntity .Contains("MyCRMInput")) { string myvalue = entMyRelatedEntity.GetAttributeValue<string>("NameOfAttribute"); } } } catch (Exception ex) { myTrace.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message); }

Thanks a lot,

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