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Hagai Cohen
Hagai Cohen

Reputation: 121

MS CRM Dynamics in latest bound - how to discover all entities?

I am building a connector to CRM Dynamics. I would like to get (discover) all the entities with their fields. There for, I am using the IOrganizationService interface with RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest. I do get all the entities names BUT I don't know how to get all fields (columns) of any entity.

please help...

hagai

Upvotes: 2

Views: 777

Answers (2)

Abz
Abz

Reputation: 11

We need to create RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest first

RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest entityRequest = new RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest();

Then call the service.execute() to retrieve results

there is a blog post which explains really well.

Upvotes: 0

James Wood
James Wood

Reputation: 17552

It sounds like your almost there. This it taken from the MSDN sample: Dump Attribute Metadata to a File.

RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest request = new RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest()
{
    EntityFilters = EntityFilters.Attributes,
    RetrieveAsIfPublished = true
};

// Retrieve the MetaData.
RetrieveAllEntitiesResponse response = (RetrieveAllEntitiesResponse)_serviceProxy.Execute(request);

foreach (EntityMetadata currentEntity in response.EntityMetadata)
{
    foreach (AttributeMetadata currentAttribute in currentEntity.Attributes)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("LogicalName: " + currentAttribute.LogicalName);
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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