How to get CRM field attributes
Say you need to know what all the Required Fields are or list of other field attributes like MaxLength or MinValue, for a set of entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you could open each entity one at a time and then open each field attribute to determine its requirement level but if you have a large solution that process is time consuming and tedious.
A quick simple solution is to query the MetadataSchema.Attribute and the MetadataSchema.Entity found in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Organization database. Using the SQL I have provided below you can get a listing of just about anything you might want to know about your solutions entity attributes and field attributes.
| SELECT MetadataSchema.Attribute.Name, MetadataSchema.Attribute.AttributeRequiredLevelId, MetadataSchema.Attribute.PhysicalName, MetadataSchema.Attribute.Length,
MetadataSchema.Attribute.MaxLength, MetadataSchema.Attribute.DefaultValue, MetadataSchema.Attribute.VisibleToPlatform, MetadataSchema.Attribute.IsPKAttribute, MetadataSchema.Attribute.PrecisionValue, MetadataSchema.Attribute.MinValue, MetadataSchema.Attribute.MaxValue, MetadataSchema.Attribute.AttributeId, MetadataSchema.Entity.Name, MetadataSchema.Entity.OriginalLocalizedName FROM MetadataSchema.Entity INNER JOIN MetadataSchema.Attribute ON MetadataSchema.Entity.EntityId = MetadataSchema.Attribute.EntityId |
