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Custom Workflow Activity

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Posted on by Joshua Wright 410

I just created my first Custom Workflow Activity and have it working as desired.  My question is how do I either:

A) restrict that activity to only be available from one entity (custom)

or

B) determine which entity is calling the activty so I can break if it is called from an incorrect entity.

I have read through all of the sdk documentation and searched multiple blogs/forums with no luck.

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  • Muhammad Adeel Javaid Profile Picture
    Muhammad Adeel Javaid 5,580 on at

    To learn about Workflow rules you can refer to this link please:

    login.salesforce.com/.../workflow_examples.htm

  • Joshua Wright Profile Picture
    Joshua Wright 410 on at

    The linked article is specific to salesforce and does not give any relevant information to Custom Workflow Assembalies is CRM 2011.

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    jlattimer Profile Picture
    jlattimer 24,564 on at

    I don't believe there is a way to limit the custom activity to a certain entity through the UI but you could do a check in the code itself.

    You could use something like this to abort processing in the event an incorrect entity was used:

    IWorkflowContext context = executionContext.GetExtension(); 
    string entityname = context.PrimaryEntityName; 
    //Check for correct type... 
    if (entityname != "email") 
    { 
     throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("Action not allowed on entity type of " + entityname); 
    }
  • Muhammad Adeel Javaid Profile Picture
    Muhammad Adeel Javaid 5,580 on at

    Dear Joshua for Custom Workflow Assemblies for MSCRM 2011 here is a suggested link:

    technet.microsoft.com/.../gg309745.aspx

  • Muhammad Adeel Javaid Profile Picture
    Muhammad Adeel Javaid 5,580 on at

    Here is a link to an article to register and Use a Custom Workflow Activity Assembly in MSCRM 2011:

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg328153.aspx

  • Joshua Wright Profile Picture
    Joshua Wright 410 on at

    This is what I was afraid of.  I was hoping I was missing somewhere in the methods metadata this could be set.  Thanks for the reply.

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