I made a custom workflow activity (MS-CRM 4.0) looking like this (didn't bother to make a nice pick list, just enter the timezonecode as paramet
using System;
using System.Workflow.ComponentModel;
using System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Design;
using System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler;
using System.Workflow.Activities;
using Microsoft.Crm.Workflow;
using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy;
using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Query;
namespace customactivities
{
[CrmWorkflowActivity("Update Users Time Zone", "Custom Activities")]
public partial class SetUsersTimeZone : SequenceActivity
{
protected override ActivityExecutionStatus Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)
{
try
{
// get the context service
IContextService contextService = (IContextService)executionContext.GetService(typeof(IContextService));
IWorkflowContext context = contextService.Context;
ICrmService crmService = context.CreateCrmService();
// Check caller is a user
if (context.PrimaryEntityName.ToLower() != EntityName.systemuser.ToString().ToLower())
return ActivityExecutionStatus.Closed;
// Now do the job
SetTimeZone(crmService, context);
crmService.Dispose();
return ActivityExecutionStatus.Closed;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("An error occurred in SetUsersTimeZone (execute)", ex);
}
}
private void SetTimeZone(ICrmService crmService, IWorkflowContext context)
{
try
{
RetrieveUserSettingsSystemUserRequest request = new RetrieveUserSettingsSystemUserRequest();
request.ColumnSet = new AllColumns();
request.EntityId = context.PrimaryEntityId;
request.ReturnDynamicEntities = true;
RetrieveUserSettingsSystemUserResponse response = (RetrieveUserSettingsSystemUserResponse)crmService.Execute(request);
if (response == null) return;
if (response.BusinessEntity == null) return;
DynamicEntity settings = (DynamicEntity)response.BusinessEntity;
CrmNumber itimezone = new CrmNumber();
itimezone.Value = this.TimeZone.Value;
CrmNumberProperty ptimezone = CrmTypes.CreateCrmNumberProperty("timezonecode", itimezone);
settings.Properties.Add(ptimezone);
UpdateUserSettingsSystemUserRequest update = new UpdateUserSettingsSystemUserRequest();
update.Settings = settings;
update.UserId = context.PrimaryEntityId;
crmService.Execute(update);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("An error occurred in SetUsersTimeZone (SetTimeZone)", ex);
}
}
// Define the dependency properties
public static DependencyProperty TimeZoneProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("TimeZone", typeof(CrmNumber), typeof(SetUsersTimeZone));
[CrmInput("Time Zone Number")] // See table!!
[ValidationOption(ValidationOption.Required)]
public CrmNumber TimeZone
{
get
{
return (CrmNumber)base.GetValue(TimeZoneProperty);
}
set
{
base.SetValue(TimeZoneProperty, value);
}
}
}
}
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