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Auditing User’s Team membership in CRM
Recently we got a requirement to track Team membership of a User (i.e., Log when a User gets Add/Remove from a Team).
We checked whether the OOB Audit feature would fulfill this requirement.
Audit feature does logs an entry every time we add/remove a User from Team but as separate events.
Add User to a Team – Audit
- An entry with Event name ‘Associate Entities’ gets created in Audit History
- On double click on the entry you get below window with details of Team that User added to.
Audit Log-Add User to Team
Remove User from a Team – Audit
- An entry with Event name ‘Disassociate Entities’ gets created in Audit History
- On double click on the entry you get below window with details of Team that User removed from.
Audit Log- Remove User from Team
More Info
- Audit feature provide details of User’s Team membership, but not in a detailed manner.
- Also ‘Associate Entities & Disassociate Entities‘ event’s will get logged in ‘Audit History’ every time you perform Associate\Disassociate operations with your N:N related entities.
- If the details provided in Audit does not give you more details, You can go for a Plugin to log more details when User gets Add/Remove from a Team.
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Associate/Disassociate plugin messages in CRM
In CRM, the Associate or Disassociate event happens
- If you have a N:N relationship between two entities and when you try to associate or disassociate records either from Associated view or Sub grid.
Entity Associate View
In Plugins, the Associate & Disassociate messages behave little different than other messages.
- When you register a plugin on Associate message, you have to leave “Primary and Secondary” entities as ‘none’.
Associate Plugin Step
- Since we don’t provide entity names, the registered Plug-in step triggers on all “Associate” operations, so we have to check few conditions to let the “Association” trigger happen only between intended entities.
You can use the below code template for Associate or Disassociate plugins
EntityReference targetEntity = null;
string relationshipName = string.Empty;
EntityReferenceCollection relatedEntities = null;
EntityReference relatedEntity = null;
if (context.MessageName == “Associate”) {
// Get the “Relationship” Key from context
if (context.InputParameters.Contains(“Relationship”)) {
relationshipName = context.InputParameters[“Relationship”].ToString();
}
// Check the “Relationship Name” with your intended one
if (relationshipName != “{YOUR RELATION NAME}”) {
return;
}
// Get Entity 1 reference from “Target” Key from context
if (context.InputParameters.Contains(“Target”) && context.InputParameters[“Target”] is EntityReference) {
targetEntity = (EntityReference)context.InputParameters[“Target”];
}
// Get Entity 2 reference from ” RelatedEntities” Key from context
if (context.InputParameters.Contains(“RelatedEntities”) && context.InputParameters[“RelatedEntities”] is EntityReferenceCollection) {
relatedEntities = context.InputParameters[“RelatedEntities”] as EntityReferenceCollection;
relatedEntity = relatedEntities[0];
}
}
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Rajeev Pentyala - Microsoft Power Platform 