Contact custom entitites

[fgh]

Is ther a way to get custom entities for a contact record. Lets call the contact:Nick Davies. this contact has an ID:"as4324324asda".

I have a custom table called Novels. Is there a way to get all the novels for contact Nick Davies?

[jimdurkin]

Use the Entity Manager

Me.EntityList = Me.EntityManager.GetCustomSubEntities(Me.ACTApplication.ApplicationState.CurrentContact, Me.EntitySortCriteria, Me.FilterCriteriaACT)

-- Jim Durkin

[fgh]

Thanks , that did work!

[venkatinfy]

Hi Jim,

Can explain the code bit more, I have see the class Entity Manager has no method as the GetCustomSubEntities and also what do you refer for the Me in the code
Me.EntityList = Me.EntityManager.GetCustomSubEntities(Me.ACTApplication.ApplicationState.CurrentContact, Me.EntitySortCriteria, Me.FilterCriteriaACT)

[sam_raikes]

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@venkatinfy wrote:
Hi Jim,

Can explain the code bit more, I have see the class Entity Manager has no method as the GetCustomSubEntities and also what do you refer for the Me in the code
Me.EntityList = Me.EntityManager.GetCustomSubEntities(Me.ACTApplication.ApplicationState.CurrentContact, Me.EntitySortCriteria, Me.FilterCriteriaACT)

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Hi venkatinfy,

This is how I get custom sub-entities for a Contact (C#).

I have taken this out of an older project of mine so I haven't re-tested it, but it certainly worked at the time and might prove useful to you.

You should have your SubEntity defined somewhere in your project. Yours may look a little different, but mine looks like this (SubEntity.cs):

public sealed class MyCustomEntity : CustomSubEntity
{
    public MyCustomEntity(CustomSubEntityInitializationState state)
        : base(state) { }
}

Then I retrieve the entity like this (Main.cs):

Contact MyContact = ... // However you get your Contact goes here

CustomEntityDescriptor MyEntityDescriptor = actApp.ActFramework.CustomEntities.GetCustomEntityDescriptor("MyCustomEntity");

CustomSubEntityManager<MyCustomEntity> MyEntityManager = actApp.ActFramework.CustomEntities.GetSubEntityManager<MyCustomEntity>(MyEntityDescriptor);

CustomEntityList<MyCustomEntity> MyCustomEntityList = MyEntityManager.GetCustomSubEntities(MyContact, null);

There's a good sub entity sample that you can look at if you haven't already.

It's in C# and for desktop, but shows you how to store and retrieve custom entities.

http://community.act.com/t5/Act-Developer-Downloads/Custom-Sub-Entity-Sample/td-p/307

I unfortunately don't have any Act! for Web samples to share with you.

Hope this helps!

Sam.

[venkatinfy]

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the help, I was able to retrieve the custom entity fields with the help of above information.