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    Hi all,

    i don't know if my question is exactly related to development section. apologies if it's not,

     

    The scenario is something like this, i am creating a custom workflow which fires when a custom entity's statusreason is changed. then it checks for somevalue (validity of some fields) within the entity. if those values are not/are valid it changes the status reason to a different status reason and exits. i am using xrm service context class and these are the two lines where i am trying to save the entity.

     

    crm.UpdateObject(objEntity);

crm.SaveChanges();

     

    now my problem is since the workflow is triggered after the status reason gets changed, the workflow gets triggered again and does the same checks over and over again in a infinite loop. what is the workaround so that the workflow can only gets kicked once.

    thanks in advance

    im

     

     

    Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:49 PM

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    In CRM workflow, you can check the workflow excution context object's Depth property.

    If I understand you correctly, the following code snippet should help you prevent from workflow infinite loop:

    IWorkflowContext context = executionContext.GetExtension<IWorkflowContext>();
if (context.Depth > 1)
  return;

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers,

    Daniel Cai | http://danielcai.blogspot.com
    Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:58 PM

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    In CRM workflow, you can check the workflow excution context object's Depth property.

    If I understand you correctly, the following code snippet should help you prevent from workflow infinite loop:

    IWorkflowContext context = executionContext.GetExtension<IWorkflowContext>();
if (context.Depth > 1)
  return;

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers,

    Daniel Cai | http://danielcai.blogspot.com
    Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:58 PM
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    thanks man...much appreciated....
    Friday, July 22, 2011 9:43 AM
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    Thanks mate, You saved my day.
    Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:08 AM