Azure DevOps release pipeline task to move configuration data between two Dynamics CRM environments. It also delete option set values from global optionset and local optionset fields.
Task 1:- Upsert Configuration entity data
This task retrieves the data from source dynamics instace using the fetch xml query. And then upserts the records in the targest dynamics CRM instance.
Required input parameters
Source Dynamics CRM Connection String
Target Dynamics CRM Connection String
Fetch XML Query
N:N Relationship Name
Source Entity Name
Target Entity Name
You can define the above CRM credentials in release pipeline variables and access those variables as shown in the below image.
So that you don't need to re-enter the values for each release stage.
Task 2:- Sync Team Security roles
This task associates the team and security roles data from source dynamics instace to the target dynamics crm instance. Currently it only associates the security roles it won't dissociate the existing security roles of the team.
Required input parameters
Source Dynamics CRM Connection String
Target Dynamics CRM Connection String
Task 3:- Removes option set values from the local and global optionset fields.
This task connects to the target Dynamics CRM instance and removes the option values from local optionset fields and global optionset fields.
You can specify more than one local optionset logical name and global optionset logical name using the below format.
Input Parameters
Attribute Logical Name
Specify entitylogicalname "-" attribute logical name. If there are more than one attribute then separate them with "|" symbol.
Attribute Options To Remove
Specify optionset integer value without comma. If you want to remove multiple option values from the same optionset then separate the integer values with ";" symbol.
If you've added two attribute names in the first parameter then you need to another optionset integer value separated by "|" symbol.
For Ex: In the first parameter you've added two local optionset attribute names and would like to remove 2 option values from both of these two attributes. Then you should specify the parameters as shown below.
Attribute logical name: incident-casetypecode|incident-statuscode
Attribute options to remove : 100000000;100000001|1000;3
Global OptionSet Name
Specify the global optionset schema name. If there are more than one global optionset then separate them by "|" symbol.
Options To Remove
Specify optionset integer value without comma. If you want to remove multiple option values from the same global optionset then separate the integer values with ";" symbol.
If you've added two global optionset names in the previous parameter then you need to another optionset integer value separated by "|" symbol.
For Ex: In the previous parameter you've added two global optionset names and would like to remove 2 option values from both of these two global optionsets. Then you should specify the parameters as shown below.
Global OptionSet Name: connectionrole_category|msdyn_feasibility
Options To Remove: 2;3|192350000
