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Get User Permission Set on an entity

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Hi all,

I am having issue trying to fetch CRM 2011 user permission set on a particular entity. Look at my code below.

// Get the owner id of the user
                    var userId = (from su in context.CreateQuery<SystemUser>()
                                  join sur in context.CreateQuery<SystemUserRoles>()
                                  on su.SystemUserId equals sur.SystemUserId
                                  where su.DomainName == UserName
                                  select su.SystemUserId).FirstOrDefault();

                    if (userId != null)
                    {
                        RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest req = new RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest();

                        //specify team or systemuser you want to get privileges for
                        req.Principal = new EntityReference("systemuser", userId.Value);

                        //specify the CRM record you want to check principal permissions for (can be any entity type)
                        req.Target = new EntityReference(entityName, new Entity(entityName).Id);
                        RetrievePrincipalAccessResponse resp = (RetrievePrincipalAccessResponse)context.Execute(req);

The code keeps on giving error where I try to set Target for the request as entityName as it can not find the Guid for the entity "contact" (Check the bold statement above). What I don't get is how to get the existing Guid of the entity from CRM.

Please help!

Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:36 PM

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RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest is used to determine a Principal's access to a specific entity instance, not an entity. As such, you must pass a GUID for an existing entity instance in the EntityReference specified as the Target. E.g.:

Guid contactId =
	(
		from c in xrm.ContactSet
		where c.FirstName.StartsWith("A")
		select c.Id
	).Take(1).First();

if (userId != null)
{
	RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest req = new RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest();

	//specify team or systemuser you want to get privileges for
	req.Principal = new EntityReference("systemuser", userId.Value);

	//specify the CRM record you want to check principal permissions for (can be any entity type)
	req.Target = new EntityReference("contact", contactId);
	RetrievePrincipalAccessResponse resp = (RetrievePrincipalAccessResponse)context.Execute(req);
}

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Proposed as answer by MubasherSharif Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:33 PM
Marked as answer by Syed A. Ali Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:15 PM

Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:51 PM

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