Can I have both Friendly Names and the GUID?

[jdenicola-pa]

I am exporting Contacts for example. I want the Result View to have both the GUID of the Account (parentcustomerid) and also the "friendly name" of two custom lookup fields on my Contact entity.

If I check Appearance -> Friendly Names, it does the lookups for me (which I want for the two custom lookup fields) but then it includes the Account Name. It's OK to have the Account Name, but I ALSO need the Account ID (GUID). Is there a way to have both?

[rappen]

Hi - interesting request!
No, it is now impossible. The Friendly/Raw design you use is done down in the control (XRMDataGridView in Rappen.Xtb.Helpers) so we can't use some Friendly and some Raw.
Even harder - you want to get one attribute (parentcustomerid) in two columns...
Well, now impossible, but I might think about this for a while!
I'll get back if I find some ideas!

[rappen]

It's possible to do today, by this query:

<fetch>
  <entity name='contact'>
    <attribute name='fullname' />
    <attribute name='parentcustomerid' />
    <link-entity name='account' from='accountid' to='parentcustomerid' link-type='outer' alias='A'>
      <attribute name='accountid' />
    </link-entity>
  </entity>
</fetch>

Example: