What is the purpose of MapDatasourceToEntity method in DataEntity

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I am trying to understand what does MapDatasourceToEntity method actually does ?

Please provide some example to understand.

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Satish Panwar 14,671 Moderator on at

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The same question has been answered in previous thread. Take a look

community.dynamics.com/.../data-entity-methods

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Hi Satish ,

Thanks for the reply.

I have seen this post

but here it is mentioned like this.

MapdatasourcetoEntity- if you want to write any custom logic while exporting data out of the system you can override this method

I donot understand "out of system".

Can you please give me an example.

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Sukrut Parab 71,710 Moderator on at

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Out of the system means for exporting . Use metadata search to find standard example.

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WillWU 22,361 on at

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Hi AX2012 r3,

There is another method called "mapEntityToDataSource".

Please have a look at the following DOC:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/data-entities/data-entity-computed-columns-virtual-fields#example-use-a-virtual-field-to-receive-and-parse-an-inbound-field

This method contains the logic of the inbound field.

And "MapDatasourceToEntity" is the opposite method to write codes about outbound fields.

The so-called outbound and inbound means the import and export of entity data.

Hope this helps.

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Here for testing i created one entity and i have one field extraamount (real).

I have this field in table and Data entity and Staging.

I tried filling this as 50 in "MapDatasourceToEntity" But it is not getting filled when exported.

Am i missing any thing.

Please guide.

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Hi partner,

Please provide your code if possible.

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public void mapDataSourceToEntity(DataEntityRuntimeContext _entityCtx, DataEntityDataSourceRuntimeContext _dataSourceCtx) { if(_dataSourceCtx.name() == dataEntityDataSourceStr(DEntityTableEntity, DEntityTable)) { this.ExtraAmount = 50; this.Description = "123"; } super(_entityCtx, _dataSourceCtx); }

Second Way i tried

public void mapDataSourceToEntity(DataEntityRuntimeContext _entityCtx, DataEntityDataSourceRuntimeContext _dataSourceCtx) { if(_dataSourceCtx.name() == dataEntityDataSourceStr(DEntityTableEntity, DEntityTable)) { DEntityTable de = _dataSourceCtx.getBuffer(); de.ExtraAmount = 50; de.Description = "123"; } super(_entityCtx, _dataSourceCtx); }

Please tell me what wrong did i do

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WillWU 22,361 on at

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Hi partner,

It seems you are assigning values to the table DEntityTable, but this method is to pass the values in the table to the entity.

de.ExtraAmount = 50;
de.Description = "123";

If your entity contains these two fields.You can try to change them into:

this.ExtraAmount =50;

this.Description ="123";

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I donot understand which one to be considered i tried both but not able to export.

Can you provide any example code

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