InitializeFrom Function

Applies To: Dynamics 365 (online), Dynamics 365 (on-premises), Dynamics CRM 2016, Dynamics CRM Online

Initializes a new record from an existing record.

This Web API function corresponds to the organization service InitializeFromRequest.

InitializeFrom function is not bound to any entity types.

Parameters

Parameters allow for data to be passed to the function.

Name	Type	Nullable	Unicode	Description
EntityMoniker	crmbaseentity EntityType	false		The record that is the source for initializing.
TargetEntityName	Edm.String	false	false	The logical name of the target entity.
TargetFieldType	TargetFieldType EnumType	false		The attributes are to be initialized in the initialized instance.

The InitializeFrom function returns the following value.

Type	Nullable	Description
crmbaseentity EntityType	false	Contains the response from the InitializeFrom function.