Question

I need to delete some records related to the current record when it is deactivated. I can get the the event when the record is deactivated but I have looked around for some time on Google and this site for the code to delete records in javascript but I can’t find any, though I know there must be some out there.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Answer 1

I would be alright with doing this with a plugin, all I would need to know is how to pick up that the record has been deactivated

You can register a plugin on the SetState and SetStateDynamic messages (recommend the Pre event in your scenario). Each of these messages will pass an EntityMoniker in the InputParameters property bag which refers to the record that is being deactivated.

In your code you will need to:

1. Check that the new state in the SetState request is deactivated (since of course a record can usually be reactivated and you don’t want to try deleting things then too, presumably)
2. Pick up the EntityMoniker from IPluginExecutionContext.InputParameters
3. Run your query to identify and delete related records
4. Exit the plugin to allow the SetState transaction to complete