Understanding CRM Metadata: PrimaryKey and PrimaryField

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re: Understanding CRM Metadata: PrimaryKey and PrimaryField

Divya — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:35:56 GMT

Hi,

I want the display name of attributes of a particular entity to be listed in dropdown down list using meatadata service in .net.Can anybody help me in coding.How to get the display name of attributes in a particular entity and how to use retrieveentitymetadata function in sdk?

thankx

Divya

re: Understanding CRM Metadata: PrimaryKey and PrimaryField

David — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:04:05 GMT

Mild confusion but otherwise a very useful post, in "Using the code" the line myGuid = FindEntityRecord(myCRMService, myMetadataService, "account", "Microsoft");

should probably read FindEntityGuid?

David

MCTS

Vad använder du PrimaryKey/PrimaryField till i Microsoft CRM?

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Norge — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:17:41 GMT

Har du någon gång funderat på det? Vilken nytta kan du ha av det och vad skall du använda de till? Här

re: Understanding CRM Metadata: PrimaryKey and PrimaryField

Bill Smith — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:12:15 GMT

It seems to me that importing accounts/contacts, contacts/activities etc etc is such a fundamental step that we need a way that the poor importer (often NOT a developer) can do this without having to figure out how to "get" an entity's GUID.

So if we have already imported the accounts, then the only thing we should have to do with the "primary customer" field in the contact record source, would be to put "account, Pepsi Cola Corp" in the source "account name" field - and the import would know to go access an already loaded "account" entity record and put the link in the newly loaded contact record.

re: Understanding CRM Metadata: PrimaryKey and PrimaryField

Jonathan Sanders — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:43:00 GMT

Hello

i'm wanting to know how i can shrink the "Metadata" file size on a user profile? many thanks.

Jon

jkksanders@tiscali.co.uk