Publish duplicate detection rule using PowerShell

In D365 project PowerShell scripts are used for a number of tasks. A few examples are:

1. To automate import and export of solution
2. For automating manual deployment tasks or steps
3. Creating reference data
4. Querying, testing and analysing data while in development, and also post-deployment
5. Creating integration tests to ensure the system is in expected state

Recently I used PowerShell script to ensure duplicate detection rules are always published after release.

About Script

This script uses “Microsoft.Xrm.Data.Powershell” module. Duplicate detection rule name is passed as an argument, and this script will publish it if it was not.

function Publish-CrmDuplicateDetectionRules{

[CmdletBinding()]
PARAM(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient]$conn,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=1)]
[string]$DuplicateDetectionRule,
[parameter(Mandatory=$false, Position=2)]
[bool]$PublishAll
)

$fetch = @”
<fetch>
<entity name=”duplicaterule” >
<all-attributes/>
<filter>
<condition attribute=”statuscode” operator=”eq” value=”0″ />
<condition attribute=”name” operator=”eq” value=”$DuplicateDetectionRule”/>
</filter>
</entity>
</fetch>
“@
$matchingDDRules = Get-CrmRecordsByFetch -conn $conn -Fetch $fetch

Write-Host $matchingDDRules.Count “rules found”

if($matchingDDRules.Count -lt 1)
{
throw “Duplicate rule $DuplicateDetectionRule did not exist”
}

$PublishAll

if($PublishAll -eq $false)
{ Write-Host “Publishing one rule”
$ddRule_toPublish = New-Object Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishDuplicateRuleRequest
$ddRule_toPublish.DuplicateRuleId= $matchingDDRules.CrmRecords[0].duplicateruleid
$conn.ExecuteCrmOrganizationRequest($ddRule_toPublish,$trace)
}
else
{ Write-Host “Publishing rules”
foreach($rule in $matchingDDRules.CrmRecords)
{
write-host “rule is ” $rule.duplicateruleid
$ddRule_toPublish = New-Object Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishDuplicateRuleRequest
$ddRule_toPublish.DuplicateRuleId= $rule.duplicateruleid
$conn.ExecuteCrmOrganizationRequest($ddRule_toPublish,$trace)
Write-Host “Rule Published”
}

}
}

Enjoy your 365 day 🙂

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