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I have 6 entities. one is parent and rest are child . Parent and child is in 1:N relationship. when I put some data in the form of parent, I also want these data to be saved in similar names fields of child entity forms. Is it posible to share JavaScript code for such. Say Entity A has 2 fields sea, river; entity B,C,D,E,F also has similar names fields sea and river with many other fields. But sea and river value should come from Entity A's form. I tried so many things, but not a single was successful,please help, am too new to CRM

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Hi,

my understanding is that you would like to add the same field to 6 entities. For example, You add the field to each entity and then add it to each form; when you fill in the new field in the A entity, it will automatically also fill in in the rest 5 entities.

If so, it may not use JS code. You could link this field by configuring a Mapping entry.

Here are the steps:

1. Open any form of the A entity in CRM.

2. Go to the Customization tab and click on "Customize Entity"

3. Navigate to 1:N Relationships on the Left Navigation Pane.

4. Locate the A entity to the rest 5 entities Relationship and Double Click on it.

5. Click on "Mappings" on Left Navigation Pane.

6. Create a new entry for your custom field.

NOTE: You can only create mappings if the fields are the same type and length.

Hope it helps.

BR,

Judy

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RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

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Hi Suchisuchi,

One easy way to achiev this is to write a workflow on your child entities which will update the fields from the parent entity (Assuming you have added the lookup to your parent entity on your child entity). This will work on create of you child record i.e. when you create a child record the workflow will trigger and populated teh field values from selected parent record.

The downside of this is that if you later update the values in parent then it won't update the child records. However there are open source workflow activities available which you can use to update the child record as well.

community.dynamics.com/.../184986

community.dynamics.com/.../176646

If you want to right your own code then the best option would be to write a plugin for this which will run on both child & parent and keep the values in sync.

Hope this helps.

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Shahbaaz Ansari 6,211 on at

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Hi Suchisuchi,

Writing a workflow would be the good and OOB option in your case.

You need to trigger that workflow on on change of River and Sea field of Entity A.

and then you need to add 5 update steps which will update your 5 entity with those value.

Best Regards,

Shahbaaz

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