使用C＃从xml数据获取附件到Crm 2015

Question

we have a website that the customer writes her incident with attachments. I can get the incident and save it to Crm 2015 system. Hovewer i want to save also the attachments like pictures etc.

I get the incidents from xml and read one by one and save the to Crm 2015 System:

foreach (XElement xmlIncident in xmlIncidents)
{

}

In this foreach i can get the attachment values:

var attachments = xmlIncident.Elements("attachments"); //get the collection of attachments.

As an example, ın may example incident i have 4 jpg photosand one of them seems to be like this in c# code:

https://docs.sikayetvar.com/complaint/1054/10543034/gbhjk-1528636381_160x160.jpg https://docs.sikayetvar.com/complaint/1054/10543034/gbhjk-1528636381.jpg photo

My question is how can i get the attachments form xml data and save it to Crm 2015 incident table using c#

Answer 1

I guess it's not a good idea to update the CRM database directly as there are plenty of things available in the CRM SDK.

Steps to perform:

1. Get the file path from the XML
2. verify the file type to be jpg then read the file as Base64 string
3. Create Entity of type Annotation where objectid = record GUID

Look at the below code it should work for you

Guid AttachToIncident(string filePath, Guid recordGuid){    
    Func<string,string> imageToBase64 = (fpath) => {
        using (Image image = Image.FromFile(fpath))
        {
            using (MemoryStream memStrm = new MemoryStream())
            {
                image.Save(memStrm, image.RawFormat);
                byte[] imageBytes = memStrm.ToArray();
                string base64String = Convert.ToBase64String(imageBytes);
                return base64String;
            }
        }   
    };

    string fileName = Path.GetFileName(filePath);

    Guid attachmentId = Guid.Empty;

    Entity newAnnotation = new Entity("annotation");
    newAnnotation["subject"] = "external attachment";
    newAnnotation["filename"] = filename;
    newAnnotation["mimetype"] = @"image/jpeg";
    newAnnotation["documentbody"] = imageToBase64(filePath);
    newAnnotation["objectid"] = new EntityReference("incident", recordGuid);

   //you must be knowing what this service is ;)
    attachmentId = orgService.Create(newAnnotation); 
    return attachmentId;    
}