RetrieveEntity Function

Namespace:

Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM

Retrieves entity metadata.

Parameters

Parameters allow for data to be passed to the function.

Name	Type	Nullable	Unicode	Description
EntityFilters	EntityFilters	False	True	Filter to control how much data for each entity is retrieved.
LogicalName	Edm.String	True	False	The logical name of the target entity.
MetadataId	Edm.Guid	False	True	A unique identifier for the entity.
RetrieveAsIfPublished	Edm.Boolean	False	True	Whether to retrieve the metadata that has not been published.

Return type

Type	Nullable	Description
RetrieveEntityResponse	False	Contains the response of the RetrieveEntity function.

See also

• Use the Microsoft Dataverse Web API
• Web API Entity Type Reference
• Web API Action Reference
• Web API Function Reference
• Web API Query Function Reference
• Web API Complex Type Reference
• Web API Enum Type Reference
• Web API Metadata Entity Type Reference