Saturday, 11 June 2011

How to retrieve a lookup attribute from Plugin in CRM 2011

Related Post : http://crmdm.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-retrieve-lookup-text-value-id.html


In CRM 2011 we could use EntityReference to retrieve the lookup attribute from a Plugin.



Consider that we have a Contact lookup named as 'new_contact'. In the plugin we could use the following code to retrieve the lookup.

Code snippets:

CRM 2011:
EntityReference
contactlookup = (EntityReference)targetEntity.Attributes["new_contact"];


CRM 4:

Lookup contactlookup = (Lookup)targetEntity["new_contact"];

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8 comments:

  1. 1sabine87 November 2011 at 09:36

    Hi,
    I need to retrieve a checkbox attribute.
    Any idea how I can do it?
    And which function should I use to trigger that action because Retrieve function is not working.
    Thank you

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  2. D. MANJALY7 November 2011 at 20:59

    hello, Are you trying this from javascript or plugin ?

    From Javascript :http://crmdm.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-retrieve-checkbox-value-in-crm.html
    Also pls refer the following...http://crmdm.blogspot.com/2011/03/checkbox-onchange-event-is-not-working.html

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  3. 1sabine81 December 2011 at 16:34

    Hi again,
    I'm trying to get the lookup value, I got the ID but I wasn't able to get the text value.
    I used contactLookup.Name.toString(), it's returning null.
    How to do that?
    Thank you

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  4. D. MANJALY1 December 2011 at 16:55

    You could try this
    http://crmdm.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-retrieve-lookup-text-value-id.html

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  5. 1sabine82 December 2011 at 09:09

    The other one is Jscript.
    Can you continue the code on ow to get the text value?
    Would appreciate that

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  6. D. MANJALY3 December 2011 at 21:43

    Sorry i thought you were trying in js. That's very strange.So you got ID but not name. How about logical name?. Do you have any value in that?

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  7. Anonymous13 May 2012 at 22:51

    Great Post

    Thanks for sharing

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  8. Ramya27 June 2012 at 15:06

    The result retrieved shows as:
    Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.EntityReference

    How can i get the value of the lookup?

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