AssociateRequest Class
Updated: November 29, 2016
Applies To: Dynamics 365 (online), Dynamics 365 (on-premises), Dynamics CRM 2016, Dynamics CRM Online
Contains the data that is needed to create a link between records.
Assembly: Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk (in Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | AssociateRequest | Initializes a new instance of the AssociateRequest class. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Gets or sets the structure that contains extra data. Optional.(Inherited from OrganizationRequest.) | |
![]() | Gets or sets the indexer for the Parameters collection.(Inherited from OrganizationRequest.) | |
![]() | Gets or sets the collection of parameters for the request. Required, but is supplied by derived classes.(Inherited from OrganizationRequest.) | |
![]() | Gets or sets the collection of entity references (references to records) to be associated. Required. | |
![]() | Get or sets the relationship name to be used for an association. Required. | |
![]() | Gets or sets the ID of an asynchronous operation (system job). Optional. (Inherited from OrganizationRequest.) | |
![]() | Gets or sets the name of the request. Required, but is supplied by derived classes.(Inherited from OrganizationRequest.) | |
![]() | Gets or sets the target that is the record to which the related records are associated. Required. |
Message Availability
This message works regardless whether the caller is connected to the server or offline.
Usage
Pass an instance of this class to the Execute method, which returns an instance of the AssociateResponse class.
Privileges and Access Rights
To perform this action, the caller must have privileges on the specified entity in the property and access rights on the specified records in the and properties. For a list of the required privileges, see Associate message privileges.
Notes for Callers
This message uses a single transaction to create multiple associations between the record that is specified by the Id in the property and each record in the property. The associations are created for the specified relationship in the property.
You can also use the Associate method to perform the same action.
For a one-to-many relationship, this message sets the property in the related record to the value of the Id in the .
For a many-to-many relationship, this message creates a record in the intersect table for the relationship, which contains the ID of both the referenced and referencing records. The intersect table name is defined in the property for the relationship. You need this when you query for the records. However, you need the relationship name to set the property. This name is defined in the property for the relationship.
Supported Entities
You can use this message to associate records of any two entities (includes records for custom entities) that participate in a relationship. To find a list of the default relationships, see the Entity Metadata topic for each entity.
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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