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How to access the underlying entity in Standard control

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I'm building a PCF standard control and I want to access the underlying entity. I dont want to use input parameters for that in this specific case because that doesn't automatically save the entity at the time of change.

I could do this by calling context.webAPI.updateRecord() (I guess?) but I need entity type and ID of course. How I get this information in standard component as the .dataSet.records is not available? It would feel a bit stupid to have to give this information as input properties which the user of the component would have to set correctly in the form editor.

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Danish N. 186 on at

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If you are looking to access EntityId and EntityTypeName then this was already answered in the following post: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Component-Framework/Access-Page-Context-within-a-component/m-p/362492/highlight/true#M879

context.mode.contextInfo.entityId context.mode.contextInfo.entityTypeName
As these are currently unsupported you will need to use
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Mikko_K 25 on at

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Thanks for the super fast response!

One thing I noticed I would also need is the name of the field where the component is attached to. Meaning the name of field mapped to the main (first) input property. This is likely impossible to find out so for that one I need a manual input property. If someone has a way though, it would be nice to know.

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That is part of the context.

context.parameters.YourParameterName.attribute.LogicalName

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Mikko_K 25 on at

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Thanks again, perfect. So many hidden things. You have a missing "s" from "attribute". As a summary for anyone else looking for these things:
Entity ID:
context.mode.contextInfo.entityId (add typing to componentframework.d.ts)
Entity logical name:
context.parameters.YourParameterName.attributes.EntityLogicalName
Field logical name:
context.parameters.YourParameterName.attributes.LogicalName

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