dynamics crm - Using Workflow in DynamicsCRM 2016 to update all contacts in Marketing List

Question

We use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 on premise. We want to implement a workflow which updates a field of all contacts in the MarketingList. Did anyone achieve this ... How can I do this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65841343/using-workflow-in-dynamicscrm-2016-to-update-all-contacts-in-marketing-list

Answer 1

Workflows are not designed to perform an action on collections of records. A workflow is always triggered in the context of a single entity record.

However, you can develop a custom CodeActivity. Create a workflow that is bound to the Marketing List entity. In the CodeActivity query all Contact records related to the Marketing List and update these records.

Important: by default your workflow must complete within 2 minutes. For large data this may not be sufficient. If this is the case the preferred way to go here is creating a batch (console) program.