Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

Recently somebody posted a question in my blog, whether there is a way to determine the entities ‘Attribute Type’ instead of making Organization service call and read the metadata. 

Assume you have a Plug-in you made a ‘Retrieve’ call using Late Binding and, you got Entity object. 

Below is easy way to determine type of each attribute using ‘is’ operator.

Entity.Attributes[attributeName] is EntityReference

Or

Entity.Attributes[attributeName] is Money

Or

Entity.Attributes[attributeName] is OptionSetValue

🙂