Dataverse table/entity reference

Use this reference to understand the available operations that can be performed for specific tables, the default columns of each table and the relationships between tables.

This reference includes only those tables where:

  • IsPrivate equals false
    • This excludes tables where no external use cases exist.
  • IsIntersect equals false
    • This excludes tables used to define Many-to-many relationships.
  • The entity supports some kind of direct data modification operation.
    • This excludes tables that you can't work with directly.

To view information about all tables in your environment, see Browse tables definitions in your environment.

Properties

This section includes selected entity properties rather than all of them. Only those properties expected to be most useful for developers are included. Some entity property values can be changed.

Columns

Columns are listed in two separate sections: Writable columns/attributes and Read-only columns/attributes. The purpose of this separation is to focus on the columns a developer can set when creating or updating rows in a table. Understanding these columns helps a developer understand what they can do with the table beyond just retrieving the values.

The columns in the Writable columns/attributes section return true for either the IsValidForCreate or IsValidForUpdate properties, (usually both). If either of these properties return false, this is indicated.

Read-only columns/attributes always return false for the IsValidForCreate and IsValidForUpdate properties.

Relationships

The EntityMetadata class includes three properties to represent relationships:

Property Type Description
OneToManyRelationships OneToManyRelationshipMetadata[] Gets the array of one-to-many relationships for the entity.
EntityMetadata.ManyToOneRelationships OneToManyRelationshipMetadata[] Gets the array of many-to-one relationships for the entity.
EntityMetadata.ManyToManyRelationships ManyToManyRelationshipMetadata[] Gets the array of many-to-many relationships for the entity.

Note

It is important to keep in mind that while each table lists those relationships that apply to it, each relationship is shared by both tables. The relationships exist between the tables. While One-To-Many relationships exist, Many-to-One relationships are simply a view of a One-To-Many relationship from the referencing table.

One-to-many relationships

To represent that there are no actual Many-to-One relationships with a minimum confusion, the details of each relationship are only documented once. Each One-to-Many relationship is listed with the referenced table and includes selected relationship details and a link to the corresponding Many-to-One relationship. Each Many-to-One relationship listed includes only a link to the corresponding One-to-Many relationship.

For each one-to-many relationship, the following properties are included:

Property Description
ReferencingEntity The logical name of the related table.
ReferencingAttribute The logical name of the column in the related table that contains a reference to primary key of the primary table.
IsHierarchical Whether the relationship represents a self-referential hierarchical relationship
IsCustomizable Whether the properties of the relationship can be changed.
ReferencedEntityNavigationPropertyName The name of the Web API collection-valued navigation property for this relationship.
More information: Web API Navigation Properties
AssociatedMenuConfiguration Data used by model-driven apps to control whether and how the related entity data can be accessed in the UI from the primary entity.
CascadeConfiguration Data that describes which operations performed on the parent entity will cascade down to related entities.
More information: Cascade configuration

Many-to-many relationships

Each many-to-many relationship includes Entity1LogicalName and Entity2LogicalName. For this documentation, relationship details are only included in the topic for Entity1. Each Many-to-Many relationship where the entity is Entity2 includes only a link to the details found in the topic for Entity1.

For each many-to-many relationship the following properties are included:

Property Description
IntersectEntityName The logical name of the intersect table that supports this many-to-many relationship
Entity1LogicalName The logical name for the first table in the relationship.
Entity1IntersectAttribute The logical name of the intersect table column that includes a reference to the primary key of the first table.
Entity1NavigationPropertyName The name of the Web API collection-valued navigation property for this relationship.
More information: Web API Navigation Properties
Entity1AssociatedMenuConfiguration Data used by model-driven apps to control whether and how the first table data can be accessed in the UI from the second table.
Entity2LogicalName The logical name for the second table in the relationship.
Entity2IntersectAttribute The logical name of the intersect table column that includes a reference to the primary key of the second table.
Entity2NavigationPropertyName This is typically the same as the Entity1NavigationPropertyName
Entity2AssociatedMenuConfiguration Data used by model-driven apps to control whether and how the second table data can be accessed in the UI from the first table.
IsCustomizable Whether the properties of the relationship can be changed.