Microsoft CRM Plugin Infinite Loop

Question

Another MS CRM question from me, I\'m afraid. I\'ve got the following code being executed on the update of a contact record but it gives me an error saying the job was cance

Answer 1

At first if IExecutionContext.Depth <= 1 seems like a great idea, but it can bite you if you have a different plugin that updates the contact. You should be using the SharedVariables of the plugin context.

Something like this should work:

Add this declaration to the plugin class as a class level field:

public static readonly Guid HasRunKey = new Guid("{6339dc20-01ce-4f2f-b4a1-0a1285b65bff}");

And add this as the first step of your plugin:

if(context.SharedVariables.ContainsKey[HasRunKey]){
    return;
}else{
    context.SharedVariables.Add(HasRunKey);
    // Proceed with plugin execution
}