Can any referencing entity attribute be updated using "/api/data/v9.0"?

Question

I want to update _parentcustomerid_value in the Contact entity (and some other) but I face such a problem - The property provided was of type System.Object, when the expected was of type System.Guid I used this link to update entity attributes. Can anyone suggest me what to do? Maybe I'm doing something wrong or it's not possible to update ids.

Answer 1

For lookup attribute, you have to use single valued navigation property and not the lookup property.

entity["parentcustomerid_contact@odata.bind"] = "/contacts(DFE54660-37CD-E511-80DE-6C3BE5A831DC)" 

Reference

The full code will look like this:

// define the data to update a record
var data =
    {
        "parentcustomerid_contact@odata.bind": "/contacts(DFE54660-37CD-E511-80DE-6C3BE5A831DC)"
    }
// update the record
Xrm.WebApi.updateRecord("contact", "61a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200", data).then(
    function success(result) {
        console.log("Contact updated");
        // perform operations on record update
    },
    function (error) {
        console.log(error.message);
        // handle error conditions
    }
);

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