Innofactor/FetchXMLBuilder

FetxhXML Builder for XrmToolBox http://fxb.xrmtoolbox.com

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

But you're right, the query executes fine. You can do it by clicking Execute below the fetchxml window, then the query is not validated against the schema. I will bring this up with the team at MS.

However the Active Accounts view in a brand new environment (9.0.1.569) looks like this:

<fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' >
  <entity name='account' >
    <attribute name='name' />
    <attribute name='address1_city' />
    <order attribute='name' descending='false' />
    <attribute name='primarycontactid' />
    <attribute name='telephone1' />
    <filter type='and' >
      <condition attribute='statecode' operator='eq' value='0' />
    </filter>
    <link-entity alias='accountprimarycontactidcontactcontactid' name='contact' from='contactid' to='primarycontactid' link-type='outer' visible='false' >
      <attribute name='emailaddress1' />
    </link-entity>
    <attribute name='accountid' />
  </entity>
</fetch>

If I can reproduce / find the query you mention, I will have a case with MS.

KiranM

@mittapallikiran

Hi All.

Its great to see a chat, I have a quick question, I am looking for a fetchXML to sql class to include in my web app, do anyone built a class/library for that?

I downloaded the code from github and found the SQL Query Generator class which is helpful, but I am not able to generate FetchType

any input is appreciated :)

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

(Sorry about the delay, I'm currently at eXtreme365 in Dubrovnik)
The FetchType object is created from the FetchXML in this method: https://github.com/Innofactor/FetchXMLBuilder/blob/master/FetchXmlBuilder/DockControls/TreeBuilderControl.cs#L202-L212
The FetchType class is generated from the fetch.xsd schema file provided by Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/developer/org-service/fetchxml-schema
I use this cmd file to generate the class from the schema: https://github.com/Innofactor/FetchXMLBuilder/blob/master/FetchXmlBuilder/Resources/XSD%20fetch.cs.cmd

Hope this helps!

And feel free to send a pull request my way if you find improvements to the SQL conversion! It is still a bit beta...

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

Ping @mittapallikiran :)

Clint Woods

@clintolin

Is there a page showing examples of "not in" FetchXML?

Clint Woods

@clintolin

well more complicated than not in. Where a child table contains some records with this value and no records with so me other value

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

Try this: https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/create-advanced-views-microsoft-dynamics-crm-using-fetchxml-builder

The query can be enhanced to do more complex filtering, let me know scenario and I might be able to assist!

Clint Woods

@clintolin

Thanks @rappen. Contacts (students) have Leads (students at a school) which have Enrollments (custom entity). I am looking for Students who enrolled last semester, but have not registered next semester.

In this fetch, the UI complains that "entityname" is invalid in the condition which I believe I see in the example given. Haven't gotten much past that. I see that my filters may need work, but this syntax issues has me stumped

entityname should be "Prev" and "Fut" ("FIt" was a typo)

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

The entityname attribute is not supported on condition elements under linked entities. You can only use them on conditions in filters on the base entity in the query. That is why this is not possible using the designer in FetchXML Builder.

Pushkaraj garge

@Pushkaraj_garge_twitter

Hi Guys,
can i use Left or Substring function to retrieve left 100 characters of any column?

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

Hi @Pushkaraj_garge_twitter , you can't do it in the query, it has to be done in the code processing the results unfortunately.

Daryl LaBar

@daryllabar

Just export to excel and do it there

Chris Nockolds

@flexsolvetech_twitter

Now call me a dumbbum, but I can't find this plugin in XRMToolBox. What might I be doing wrong?

Chris Nockolds

@flexsolvetech_twitter

Upgrade to the latest version of xrmtoolbox - easy really.

Daryl LaBar

@daryllabar

no problem dumbbum ;) #BeenThereDoneThat

'#Spelled"There"CorrectlyForJonas'sSake...

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

Shannon Holck

@SMHolck

New to Dynamics, but want to test out FetchXMLBuilder ... XrmToolBox says incompatible with this version (1.2017.7.18) ... any ideas what I need to do? First time using XrmToolBox too. Sorry, such a nube!

MscrmTools

@MscrmTools

Download latest version of XrmToolBox first at https://www.xrmtoolbox.com

Shannon Holck

@SMHolck

Thanks, @MscrmTools ! I think it is working now. yay!

MscrmTools

@MscrmTools

You’re welcome! And... welcome to the magnificent world of XrmToolBox 😁 I hope (well, I’m sure!) it will help you a lot in your work with D365

Shannon Holck

@SMHolck

Is it possible to open more than one FetchXML file at a time?

Daryl LaBar

@daryllabar

@SMHolck you can have multiple instances of the plugin open.

Yatin Babaria

@ya_tin_twitter

What should be the value in "Paging Cookie" to enable paging when number of records are more than 5K

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

You can see the paging cookie when you use the Raw fetch result option. Then you can copy this from the results to your query for next page.

You can also use this option to always get all pages.

Yatin Babaria

@ya_tin_twitter

Thanks Jonas.. :)

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

TheFlyingBadger

@MelesVolans_twitter

Hey guys

Can anyone help with a quick FetchXML question...

Nice'n'easy, yeah? A couple of attributes from the first systemuser record...

Is there any way I can suppress the @name, @dsc, @type attributes of businessunitid from being sent by the FetchXML? In my "real" use cases, i'm using FetchXML to populate a datamart and the sending across of this type of lookup data for all my rows is wasting bandwidth!

Daryl LaBar

@daryllabar

Why not use the WebAPI?

If you truly don't want it, you could apply an XLST

TheFlyingBadger

@MelesVolans_twitter

@daryllabar - a) I'm using SSIS with the Kingswaysoft extension, so FetchXML is "it"
b) I could (shudders!), but it'd still be doing the data retrieval from the server (and the network traffic as far as the XSLT processor)

Daniel Cai

@danielcai_twitter

@MelesVolans_twitter my name is Daniel Cai, I am with KingswaySoft, and want to answer your question as Daryl has looped me in this thread. Those name, type attributes are a bit noisy, but they are the way how CRM queries works. We don't use REST style queries yet, it is something that we will be looking into. REST query would sure end up with less bandwidth consumption mainly because of the message format (JSON vs XML), but not too sure if those attributes will be suppressed though.

TheFlyingBadger

@MelesVolans_twitter

@danielcai_twitter - thanks for the reply (and thanks to @daryllabar for pinging him!). I'm going nicely with kingswaysoft, I'm just marginally paranoid about network traffic - particularly once we move our CRM to 365. Cheers , Jon (in Perth, WA - hence the unusual timing!)

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

:clap: Thanks @danielcai_twitter and @daryllabar for filling in for me! :)

kamilbrz

@kamilbrz

Hi guys, is that possible to move the rows to the columns:
for example:
col1 col2 col3
x1 a 66
x2 a 33
x1 b 21
x2 b 73
x1 c 58
x2 c 11

To:
col1 a b c
x1 66 21 58
x2 33 73 11

How to achieve this using FetchXML Builder?

Jonas Rapp

@rappen

Sorry, I don't see how that could be done using FetchXML. In SQL there are some features for that, but FetchXML is a much more limited query language.

davisblumentals

@davisblumentals

I need to filter a subgrid of Account entities that are related by Connection entities. I have no problem with filtering the Connections but I cannot find a way to filter on the accountid of the current Account record. Is there any way to do this?

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