Expose contact id for each contact on the form

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Does dynamics allow you to expose the contactid for each contact by publishsing the oob contactid field on the form? I am trying to accomplish this however when I go to the form and look at the available fields on the right, this oob field doesn't show up.

I also tried to trick the system by creating a new field and a workflow to copy the data from oob contact id field to this new field but surprisingly the workflow is coping the name and not the id. (Note that I have used the correct field which has contactid)

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Rawish Kumar 13,758 on at

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Hello there :

That's expected behaviour - you will have to create a field and fill it using a plugin or javascript.

other one easy way is mentioned here without any script or code : www.powerobjects.com/.../how-to-derive-and-expose-a-record-guid-on-your-forms-using-oob-functionality

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Hi,

You can't show out of the primary key field to form, but can easily get show it in text field using on load script like below

Xrm.Page.getAttribute("textfieldname").setValue=Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();

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Any idea why this is the expected behavior or why MS doesn't let you do it purposefully?

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Rawish Kumar 13,758 on at

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The only reason i can think of is - its not "User Friendly". No business user would want to see it on the form.

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urm...One of my client has this requirement but anyway that functional way of doing it looks easy enough...THanks much :)

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Okay, I implemented the way it was mentioned on that link however the new field Record URL (singlelineoftext, URL) is exceeding the maximum characters (100 by default) which eventually fails my workflow. :/

Error- A validation error occurred. The length of the 'new_recordurl' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '100'.

Any suggestions, please?

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Hi,

You can very well increase the length of the field from field definition.

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Sorry I should have mentioned this on my last comment but dynamics doesn't let me do that. It throws a generic SQL error. I read below blogsbut still no luck :(

community.dynamics.com/.../225105

community.dynamics.com/.../167733

Error-

Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1

<Message>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Microsoft Dynamics CRM has experienced an error. Reference number for administrators or support: #06912640</Message>

<Timestamp>2019-01-17T13:44:17.0812018Z</Timestamp>

<ExceptionRetriable>false</ExceptionRetriable>

<ExceptionSource i:nil="true" />

<InnerFault i:nil="true" />

<OriginalException i:nil="true" />

<TraceText i:nil="true" />

</OrganizationServiceFault>

Any idea?

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Hi ,

Did you try to apply suggestion given in the thread -- "This error usually happens when the field you are trying to edit is added as a "Find Column" in the Quick Find View of the entity ".

alternatively - is there an option of deleting this field and re-creating it? if its new.

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Yeah these fields are not added to any views as of now. Yeah, I can try to delete them. Did you mean recreating it and before I hit save, increase the value?

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