In a rather interesting scenario recently there was a need to validate organization name in a plugin. This was for a reusable component used for several of our clients and we wanted to make sure that the organization that can use this component is amongst our clients.

So, we needed a way to validate organization name that are using this plugin and then only allow the use of the component in case we have installed the component.

We needed a code solution!

On some research came to know about the following property in plugin context:

 

   public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)

        {

            #region initialize

            IPluginExecutionContext context;

            ITracingService tracingService;

            IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory;

            IOrganizationService service;

 

            // Get a reference to the tracing service.

            tracingService = (ITracingService)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ITracingService));

 

           // Obtain the execution context from the service provider.

            context = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

if (context.OrganizationName != “organisationname”)

            {

//Run code here

             

            }

       

        

       }

 

Other 2 interesting properties I wanted to tell about below:

context.IsExecutingOffline (Check if plugin is executing offline)

context.OperationCreatedOn (Check operation creation date)

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Requirement: Client wants the ability to control Activate/Deactivate privilege on CRM entities.

Solution: Out of box, there is no ability to control Activate/Deactivate privilege. This is one of the classical CRM problems.So this one will require a little code solution.

In the proposed solution, I suggest two approaches:

· Create Additional Configuration entity to collect the permissions by role at Entity level and then allow/disallow Activate/Deactivate

· Create a Team for users : If user is part of the team user has privileges to Activate/Deactivate the record, else doesn’t have the privilege

Thereafter Plugin will read the configuration or team information and then allow/disallow Activate or Deactivate.

Finally, A decision was made to choose the team approach.

Here is the code to be used in the plugin then

using (var serviceContext = new OrganizationServiceContext(service))

{

if (context.InputParameters.Contains(“Target”) && context.InputParameters[“Target”] is Entity)

{

Entity entity = (Entity)context.InputParameters[“Target”];

if (!IsTeamMember(new Guid(“Team Guid”), context.UserId, service))

{

throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(“You do not have permission to Activate/Deactivate. Please contact System Administrator”);

}

}

}

Here is the IsTeamMember method code:

public static bool IsTeamMember(Guid teamID, Guid userID, IOrganizationService service)

{

QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression(“team”);

query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(true);

query.Criteria.AddCondition(new ConditionExpression(“teamid”, ConditionOperator.Equal, teamID));

LinkEntity link = query.AddLink(“teammembership”, “teamid”, “teamid”);

link.LinkCriteria.AddCondition(new ConditionExpression(“systemuserid”, ConditionOperator.Equal, userID));

var results = service.RetrieveMultiple(query);

if (results.Entities.Count > 0)

{

return true;

}

else

{

return false;

}

}

Next, register this on Update of status field:

Now until the users are added to the Team, they will not be able to Activate/Deactivate record.

Hope it helps and Happy CRMing!

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