Update REST Entity

This activity supports updating multiple entity records at a time through successive REST API calls and not using REST batch API call. If you want to update a data collection in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM server, use the For-Each statement to map the data collection to the elements in the Input field in the Update REST Entity activity.

Note: Update REST Entity activity supports associating an entity which has single valued relationship with the entity being updated.

General

Establish a connection to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM server on the General tab, and specify the type of entity records you want to update.

The following table lists the configurations on the General tab of the Update REST Entity activity:

Field	Module Property?	Description
Name	No	Specify the name of the activity in the process definition.
Dynamics CRM REST Connection	Yes	Specify a shared connection resource. Click the icon to select a Dynamics CRM REST connection. If no matching Dynamics CRM REST connections are found, click Create Shared Resource in the Select DynamicscrmRestResource Resource Template dialog box to create one. See Creating a Dynamics CRM REST Connection for more details.
Dynamics CRM Entity	No	Specify the type of the entity record you want to update. Click Fetch Entity to open the Entity Selection Dialog dialog box that contains all the available entities. Select an entity from the list and click OK. The selected entity is automatically specified in this field. After selecting the entity, click Build Schema to open the Attributes Selection Dialog dialog box that contains Optional Input Attributes and Optional Output Attributes which are associated with the selected entity. Select the optional attributes that you want to update and select the optional output attributes that you want to be returned from the server. Click OK. The selected attributes are displayed on the Input and Output tabs.
Upsert Restriction	No	Provides three different options to update and/or insert the entity for a given ID: None: Depending upon the existence of the ID that you enter, it creates or updates the entity: For non-existing entity ID, it creates a new entity. For existing entity ID, it updates the entity. Note: By default, None is selected. If you want to change, select the option from Upsert Restriction drop-down. The details of the newly created or updated entity are displayed on the Output tab. Prevent Create: For an existing entity ID, it only updates the entity. For a non-existing entity ID, it will not create an entity. The details of the updated entity are displayed on the Output tab. Prevent Update: For an existing entity ID, it will not update the entity. For a non existing entity ID, it creates an entity. The details of the newly created entity are displayed on the Output tab.

Description

On the Description tab, you can enter a short description for the Update REST Entity activity.

Input

The Input tab displays the input of this activity, which varies depending on the entity and attributes selected when configuring the General tab.

Note: Input values for multi-select type of attributes, introduced in Dynamics 365 V9, must be passed as comma separated integers of valid optionset options.

Output

On the Output tab, the ID of the updated entity is returned along with the output attributes which you have selected by clicking Build Schema on the General tab. The output field name varies depending on the type of updated entity record.

Fault

The Fault tab displays the error code and error message of the Update REST Entity activity. See Error Codes for a more detailed explanation of errors.

The following table lists error schema elements on the Fault tab of the Update REST Entity activity:

Error Schema Element	Data Type	Description
message	String	The error message returned by the plug-in.
messageCode	String	The error code returned by the plug-in.