Significance of Secondary Entity in Plugin Registration Tool while Registering Plug-In in MSCRM

\”Secondary Entity use when you have to trigger plugin or retrieve record from Intersect Entity(contactleads) having records of Entities(Contact and Lead) having N:N Relationship\”

While using the Plugin Registration tool in Dynamics CRM, we might have rarely or even never used the ‘Secondary Entity’ field and almost always assigned it as ‘none’, but there are some scenarios where this field comes into play.

When is ‘Secondary Entity’ required

The following 2 messages require the ‘Secondary Entity’ to be specified while registering a step in Plugin registration:
  • SetRelated
  • RemoveRelated
These two methods were extensively used in Dynamics CRM 4.0, but they were deprecated from Dynamics CRM 2011 onwards; although you can still use them in 2011 and 2013.

What are the supported ‘Secondary Entities’

Following is the table depicting the out-of-the-box ‘Primary Entity’ and ‘Secondary Entity’ that are supported for both ‘SetRelated’ and ‘RemoveRelated’ messages:
Primary Entity Secondary Entity Supported Relationships
Invoice Contact contactinvoices_association
Lead Account accountleads_association
Lead Contact contactleads_association
Opportunity Account opportunity_customer_accounts
Opportunity Contact opportunity_customer_contacts
Opportunity Competitor opportunitycompetitors_associationor
Product Lead leadproduct_association
Product Competitor competitorproduct_association
Quote Contact contactquotes_association
SalesLiterature Competitor competitorsalesliterature_association
SalesLiterature Product productsalesliterature_association
SalesOrder Contact contactorders_association
You can also find this entire list in the Dynamics CRM SDK,

What does ‘SetRelated’ and ‘RemovedRelated’ do

These two messages are basically triggered when a primary entity record is associated/dissociated with/from the secondary entity record via the relationships supported, details of which are mentioned above. So, if you’re planning to execute some business logic on association of the above mentioned entities, you can register the plugin against the ‘SetRelated’ message. The ‘RemoveRelated’ works for dissociation of the entity records from each other.
From Dynamics CRM 2011 onwards, the ‘SetRelated’ and ‘RemoveRelated’ have been succeeded by the ‘Associate’ and ‘Disassociate’ messages respectively.


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My name is Arpit Shrivastava, who is a Microsoft MVP in the Business Applications category. I am a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform enthusiast person who is having a passion for researching and learning new things and acquiring immense knowledge. I am providing consistent help, support, and sharing my knowledge through various Social Media Channels along with my Personal Blog, Microsoft Community, conducting online training and attending various 365 Saturday Events worldwide and sharing the best Solutions to the readers helping them achieve their goals and objectives in Customer Relationship Space.

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