Read OptionSet Labels in Dynamics 365 CRM Plugins | Entity object

Usually, you’d look at the OptionSet in the customiation and decide to write plugin logic based on the code you have noted down.

But, at times, you might want to know what the OptionSet Labels are for these Options, in that case, here’s how you retrieve the labels as well.

In case you are looking to retrieve OptionSet Labels in Power Automate Flow on the Dataverse connector, you can check this post – Read OptionSet Labels from CDS/Dataverse Triggers or Action Steps in a Flow | Power Automate

Scenario

Below is the OptionSet Value and you want to retrieve the Label part when you retrieve or work with RetrieveMultiple or object of the Entity class in Dynamics 365 CRM plugin execution context

OR

And here’s the Data that I’ll be retrieving in my plugin of which I need the label “Silver” instead of the OptionSet value of 1 as seen above.

OptionSet Value

Amongst some methods, I prefer using the below to retrieve the OptionSet Value i.e. the code itself

Lets say I’m looping through a list of records retrieved using RetrieveMultiple in my plugin.
I use entity.GetAttributeValue<OptionSetValue>("field_name").Value; to retrieve the value of the OptionSet option and store it in an Int32 / int variable.
But, this doesn’t give you the Name of the label itself. For that, you’ll need to use a different method. Let’s see below

OptionSet labels using Formatted Values

Below is how you can retrieve Label of the OptionSet value from the Object of the Entity class in Dynamics 365 CRM plugin execution context –

Similar to the above step, I’m retrieving the name of the Label of the same OptionSet value I’m working on from the same example above.
I use entity.FormattedValues["field_name"]; to retrieve the Label of the OptionSet option and store it in a String / string variable.