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Is it possible to have an alias for the columns retrieved in Xrm.WebApi.retrieveRecord ?
This syntax isn't working
Xrm.WebApi.retrieveRecord("jg_tdssection", tdsSectionId, "?$select=jg_rateforindividuals as jg_tdsrate");
that's more an OData query than a Dataverse query and OData committee doesn't support column aliasing yet AFAIK.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20666056/alias-in-odata-select-statement
According to the docs here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/odata/compute-and-search-in-asp-net-core-odata-8/
this should work :
GET http://localhost:5102/odata/products?$compute=Price mul Qty as TotalPrice&$select=TotalPrice
but it didn't for me
?$compute=jg_ratefornonindividuals mul 1 as tdsrate & $select=tdsrate
I'm getting this error : The query parameter [REDACTED] is not supported
that link is from ASP.NET core's OData implementation, different implementers may choose to implement different features, but for Dataverse I didn't see any online documentation which suggests it's available.
using fetchXML though aliasing is supported.
string fetchXml = @"<fetch top='3'> <entity name='account'> <attribute name='accountclassificationcode' alias='code' /> <attribute name='createdby' alias='whocreated' /> <attribute name='createdon' alias='whencreated' /> <attribute name='name' alias='companyname' /> </entity> </fetch>";
I couldn't find any information about alias being supported here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/query-data-web-api so perhaps it's not
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