Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement - Second Edition

Scenario 3

This scenario deals with how we can implement impersonation in a plugin. By default, when a plugin is executed, all the calls and actions made inside the plugin are done under the security context of the calling user. In many cases, however, inside a plugin, we may have to make certain calls that would require certain elevated privileges.

For example, in the first scenario that we discussed in this chapter, we wrote code that reads regions and bus region roaster records present in the Dynamics 365 system. However, the user who is entering the student's details in the system may not have access to these two entity records. Therefore, as per the code, if the user tries to enter the student's details into the system, they will get ...