Dynamic 365 SetStateDynamicEntity 

I was working on a plugin that has to fire when record gets deactivated or activated.

To handle this scenario I had to use SetStateDynamicEntity Message.

When it comes to the plug-in code you have to look for “EntityMoniker” as an EntityReferece on the context. Here is a snippet of code:

if(context.InputParameters.Contains("EntityMoniker") && context.InputParameters["EntityMoniker"] is EntityReference )

To retrieve the State and Status values you can use the following code

OptionSetValue state = (OptionSetValue)context.InputParameters["State"];

OptionSetValue status = (OptionSetValue)context.InputParameters["Status"];

Here is where things got interesting, if you are like me you are expecting the right value for the status “statucode field value”, instead I started getting

Status=-1;

Which is not a valid value for the OptionSet field.

Which made me scratch my head and wonder what was happening.

I noticed few anomalies whenever I deactivate the record with “Canceled” statuscode, status return -1, whenever I deactivate the record with a different statuscode value status return the proper OptionSetValue, I noticed this behavior was not only limited to deactivation of records it was even happening when I activated the record.

After investigating the OptionSet fields I noticed that Canceled was the default value for Deactivation, and whenever status code is set to the default value

(OptionSetValue)context.InputParameters["Status"] always return -1.

I tested this scenario on multiple entities to my surprise it was a consistent outcome.

So in conclusion whenever you deactivate or activate a record if “statuscode” is set to Default Value context.InputParameters["Status"] will always return -1.