Tag: Actions

Actions: usage of input/output arguments in plugins that handle Actions

31/10/2013 | by Andrew Butenko | 4 Comments

The main message is that input/output arguments are available in the InputParameters/OutputParameters’ collections of PluginExecutionContext. Usage of Input argument The following code shows how to check that the Input Argument was passed and got value:

if (localContext.PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters.Contains("ArgumentName"))
{
    string stringInputArgument = (string)localContext.PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters["ArgumentName"];
}
else
{
    //Your code for case when Argument was not passed
}

if (localContext.PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters.Contains("ArgumentName"))

{

string stringInputArgument = (string)localContext.PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters["ArgumentName"];

}

else

{

//Your code for case when Argument was not passed

}

Usage of Output Argument The following code shows how to set the Output argument:

localContext.PluginExecutionContext.OutputParameters["OutputArgumentName"] = <Value>;

1	localContext.PluginExecutionContext.OutputParameters["OutputArgumentName"] = <Value>;

One thing you should …

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Actions, input parameters and “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” exception

28/10/2013 | by Andrew Butenko | 4 Comments

While playing with Actions, I wrote a simple .Net code that invoked the execution of an Action:

slick_CustomActionsTestRequest request = new slick_CustomActionsTestRequest()
{
    BoolInArgument = true,
    DateTimeInArgument = DateTime.Now,
    DecimalInArgument = decimal.Zero
};

slick_CustomActionsTestResponse response = service.Execute(request) as slick_CustomActionsTestResponse;

slick_CustomActionsTestRequest request = new slick_CustomActionsTestRequest()

{

BoolInArgument = true,

DateTimeInArgument = DateTime.Now,

DecimalInArgument = decimal.Zero

};

slick_CustomActionsTestResponse response = service.Execute(request) as slick_CustomActionsTestResponse;

During testing, I got a really weird and unclear error – “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”:

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013: Actions: deployment of plugins through CRM Developer Toolkit

27/10/2013 | by Andrew Butenko | Leave a Comment

I played with the new version of the CRM Developer Toolkit and wasn’t able to find a way to register a plugin that handles the action using UI. The following post describes the workaround how to make it possible.

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013: Actions walkthrough for .Net and JavaScript developers

27/10/2013 | by Andrew Butenko | 5 Comments

I believe that almost every developer for Dynamics CRM has faced a scenario where he/she had to invoke some complex logic on a server side, pass parameters and receive a response back. Before CRM 2013, we used workarounds similar to this one. When Dynamics CRM 2013 was released, we got a solution that would not …

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