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Abort event through plugins

Suppose you are writing a pre -event plugin in which you compare to 
old and new values and on certain condition would like to cancel the Save or 
Update and stop the execution, it was simple in CRM 3 with an Abort() method
while in CRM 4, you have to manually raise and throw a 
Invalid-Plugin-Exception, while this gives a dirty error message on your MSCRM screen,
you can make it better by entering you own Message explaining why the record could
not be saved:

throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("Execution has been stopped due to this reason");
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OuSs said…
Thank you for this post,
I wonder if there are any way to do the same thing but without writing the entry caused by this in eventlog?

Thank you
August 20, 2009 at 2:56 AM
Allo said…
What CRM does not seem to recognize is that sometimes there's the need for a Pre-stage plugin that would execute pretty much as an INSTEAD OF UPDATE/CREATE/DELETE trigger would in MS SQL. Say, a modification to a given field in certain conditions might have to be "cancelled" and instead treated as INSERT of another record/object. Why is there no simple way of setting something like Context.Abort = true ?
- Just treat the operation as if it had already completed successfully, and let the plug-in take care of the rest. Design flaws like this fly in the face of the claims that Dynamics CRM is a one-for-all business platform.
October 26, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Charles Abi Khirs said…
Hi,
Can we do the same thing without throwing an exception in CRM 4.0?
i don't want the user to see an exception.i just want to stop the action done (delete, save...).
thank you.
July 5, 2010 at 6:09 AM
hero said…
Hi Charles, thanks for the post, i will see if i can get an answer to this.
July 5, 2010 at 6:11 AM
Charles Abi Khirs said…
ok
thank you for your prompt reply
July 5, 2010 at 6:13 AM
Michael Blackburn said…
Anything? I need this "instead-of" functionality in CRM 2011.
July 26, 2011 at 4:48 AM
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