Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

As part of an integration requirement, we had to create ‘Notes’ (i.e., Annotation) with attachment using SDK.

Key Notes:

• ‘Subject’ and ‘Notetext’ field values of Portal Notes follows a specific pattern than that of Dynamics.  Values must be set as follows:
  • Subject – Note created on {DateTime.Now.ToString()} by {Portal User Name} [contact:{PortalUserGUID}]
    • If the Portal user name is ‘Rajeev P’ and Portal user GUID(i.e.,Contact record’s GUID) is ‘2510ae27-7289-e911-a958-001dd800d97c’, Subject will be Note created on {DateTime.Now.ToString()} by Rajeev P [contact:2510ae27-7289-e911-a958-001dd800d97c]
  • Notetext – *WEB*
• If you don’t pass Portal User’s GUID in ‘Subject’ field, Portal shows the Notes record created by as User whom the Portal was configured.

Code to create Annotation:

Below is the code snippet

var noteSubject = “Note created on {DateTime.Now.ToString()} by Rajeev P [contact:2510ae27-7289-e911-a958-001dd800d97c]“;

var entAnnotation = new Entity(“annotation”);
entAnnotation[“subject“] = noteSubject;
entAnnotation[“notetext“] = “*WEB*”;
entAnnotation[“filename”] = {File_name}; // Set FileName
entAnnotation[“documentbody”] = {Base64String}; // Pass document body in Base64 format
entAnnotation[“isdocument”] = true;
entAnnotation.Attributes[“objectid”] = new EntityReference({RegardingSchemaName}, {RegardingGuid}); // Set Schema and GUID
entAnnotation.Attributes[“objecttypecode”] = {RegardingSchemaName}; // Set Schema

var noteId = crmService.Create(entAnnotation);

• Note : Replace values in {} with actual values.

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