Rajeev Pentyala – Dynamics 365 Blog

Dynamics Portals Entity List is a easy and seamless way to port Dynamics 365 CE entity views to Dynamics Portals.

As an example, if I port ‘Active Contacts’ and ‘Inactive Contacts’ views to Portals, Portal User would start see all the Contacts based on his Web Roles.

Now lets implement a filter condition, to show only those Contacts where the logged in ‘Portal User’ (i.e., Contact) Company belongs to.

With out Filter Condition:

• I logged in to Portal as ‘Rajeev Pentyala’ whose Company is ‘Northwind Traders’ and having ‘Adminstrator’ Web Role.
• I can see all the Contacts irrespective of ‘Company’

With Filter Condition:

• With Filter Condition in place, I will see only those Contacts from my Company ‘Northwind Traders’

• To configure ‘Filter Condition’
  • Open ‘Entity List’ form
    • Under ‘Filter Conditions’ section, select ‘Account Attribute’ as ‘Company Name(parentcustomerid)’

Metadata Filter:

• What if we have to provide option to the ‘Portal User’ to filter the records based on field values?
• In below screen, Portal User has an option to filter records based on 2 Company Names (i.e., Northwind Traders, Adventure Works)

• This behavior can be achieved using ‘Metadata Filter’ option.
• In this article, I am going with ‘FetchXML Filter’ option, to provide filter options based on ‘Company Names’.
• Open ‘Advanced Find’ and prepare the filter.

• Download Fetchxml and copy only the <filter> tag
  • Note: Add ‘adx:uiname’ property in <filter> tag to customize the filter label in Portal.

• Paste it in ‘FetchXML’ field and Save

• Notes:
  • You can define more than one ‘Metadata Filters’.
  • Refer article for detailed usage of Filters.

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