Problem with types when using retrieveMultiple in typescript
Describe the bug When trying to filter solutions based on related accountid and name of the other solutions on the related account. accounid comes out as a string but the related account requires a guid, and the only way I could make it works was casting accountId as any which is not optimal
Expected behavior I think that either accountid should be a guid or the filter should expect a string
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Have you tried using the Filter.makeGuid function to turn a string into a guid?
yes, the filter.makeguid made a guid formatted like (guid'{xxxxxxxx-xx-xxxxxx}) which didn't work with filter.equals the ppm_account_guid and accountid comes out excactly the same but can't be compared because one is a string and one is a guid
As magesoe says Filter.makeGuid should solve this for you. When Dynamics 365 resolves your filters, it ignores braces '{}' around your guids as well as casing.
I made the below test (with a hardcoded guid from a trial environment), and even though the primary contact have to match all four different values, the query still finds an account.
let account = await XrmQuery
.retrieveMultiple(x => x.accounts)
.filter(x => Filter.equals(x.primarycontactid_guid, "2C03653C-39CD-EC11-A7B5-000D3A471234" as any))
.filter(x => Filter.equals(x.primarycontactid_guid, "{2C03653C-39cd-EC11-A7B5-000D3A471234}" as any))
.filter(x => Filter.equals(x.primarycontactid_guid, "2c03653c-39cd-ec11-a7b5-000d3a471234" as any))
.filter(x => Filter.equals(x.primarycontactid_guid, "{2c03653c-39cd-ec11-a7b5-000d3a471234}" as any))
.promiseFirst();