In Plugin development, when you use FetchXML while using RetrieveMultiple to retrieve data.

In some scenarios since you want to retrieve a large number of columns, so mentioning each column is cumbersome on not worth to save the extra processing. In that case, it’s better to retrieve everything.

Here’s a quick tip on how you can quickly retrieve everything in 1 tag in the FetchXML!

Creating FetchXML using Advanced Find

As a standard practice, just to revise – this is how you create FetchXML from Advanced Find.

1. While working on Advanced Find, you click on Download Fetch XML
   
   
2. This gives you an XML output of the FetchXML query which you can use in your plugins.

All Attributes

Here’s what you change in order to get all attributes –

1. You remove all the marked columns as shown below
   
   
2. And replace the <attribute> tags with <all-attributes />. Make sure no other <attribute name /> tags are included in combination with this <all-attributes /> tag.
   

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Thank you!!