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Damkulul
Damkulul

Reputation: 1476

how to populate multiple line textbox in crm using plugin

Hey I would like to know what is the way to populate multiple line field by plugin, I need to start a new line in the multiple line field. my code is:

 foreach (Entity ent in allMyEnts.Entities)
          {            
                 //base_filesName is the multiple field need to be filled 
                 //inside my loop                                                  
             entityHoldsMultipleLineField.base_filesName =ent.base_name;
                                       }

Or should I create an Array and populate my field with a loop ? What is the best way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1989

Answers (1)

Nicknow
Nicknow

Reputation: 7224

First, you have a bug in your code with Entity ent because you then refer to ent.base_name - this won't work because you are calling the object as an early-bound entity but you are casting it as late-bound in the foreach statement. I'm going to assume you intended to use late-bound for my answer (you can change this to early-bound, as needed.

A multi-line textbox is still a string as far as Dynamics and .NET are concerned. You can use the StringBuilder class to easily create a multi-line string and then add that the resultant string (via .ToString()) to the proper field.

var multiLineStringResult = new StringBuilder();

foreach (Entity ent in allMyEnts.Entities)
{
    //base_filesName is the multiple field need to be filled 
    //inside my loop                                                  
     multiLineStringResult.AppendLine(ent.GetAttributeValue<string>("base_name"));
}

entityHoldsMultipleLineField["base_filesName"] = multiLineStringResult.ToString();

Upvotes: 1

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