I have posted question regarding firebase two days ago:
Android Firebase - add authenticated user into database
I got help that I needed and that solved first problem. But now I have a new problem. I was googling for quite some time, there are some posts about this issue but nothing solved my problem. I din't want to spam the previous question so I posted a new one.
When I try reading inserted data from the firebase database I get this error:
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException: Error converting value
"test#user.com" to type 'carServiceApp.My_Classes.Account'. Path
'email', line 1, position 24.
Here is the code:
private async Task LoadData()
{
FirebaseUser users = FirebaseAuth.GetInstance(loginActivity.app).CurrentUser;
id = users.Uid;
var firebase = new FirebaseClient(loginActivity.FirebaseURL);
var items = await firebase.Child("users").Child(id).OnceAsync<Account>();
foreach (var item in items)
{
Account user = new Account();
user.uid = item.Object.uid;
user.name = item.Object.name;
user.lastName = item.Object.lastName;
user.phone = item.Object.phone;
user.email = item.Object.email;
userInput_ime.Text = user.name;
userInput_prezime.Text = user.lastName;
userInput_broj.Text = user.phone;
userInput_email.Text = user.email;
}
}
This is firebase data:
-users
-jwAP2dYNzJeiF3QlmEIEQoruUkO2
email: "test#user.com"
lastName: "user"
name: "test"
phone: "12421"
uid: "jwAP2dYNzJeiF3QlmEIEQoruUkO2"
Interesting thing is that when I try reading data with this:
var items = await firebase.Child("users").OnceAsync<Account>();
This works fine (I get last inserted user) . But when I add 'uid' node, then I get error. I was trying to solve this for quite some time but I just can't figure it out. I guess that there is no problem with the account class because it works in the case without uid node but doesn't work when another child() method is added.
Other information (Account class code and the way of storing that data into the database) you can see in the link at the top.
Note: I tried adding constructor in Account class but that doesn't help.
Ok, so I didn't exactly find a solution for this problem nor do I really understand why was this happening but I have found a workaround. I believe it's not ideal solution and that it does not fix existing problem. Or maybe it was problem with me not understanding firebase logic but here is what I came up with.
So, considering that it was all working fine if I didn't specify that uid node it was obvious there was some problem with class and data in firebase, matching problem I guess. Anyway, I decided to have that last uid node so I can have specific user selected and also to have the same data in firebase as it was in case where it was all working. So, this is how I have inserted data into firebase:
var item = firebase.Child("users").Child(id).PostAsync<Account>(user);
This created users node and child node. And PostAsync method created one more node with random key.
So when I tried reading with this:
var data = await firebase.Child("users").Child(id).OnceAsync<Account>();
It worked without problem. Now firebase data looks like this:
users
JPKdQbwcXbhBatZ2ihBNLRauhV83
-LCXyLpvdfQ448KOPKUp
email: "spider#man.com"
lastName: "man"
name: "spider"
phone: "14412"
uid: "JPKdQbwcXbhBatZ2ihBNLRauhV83"
There is a bit of redundancy, I basically have two ID's, but I don't understand how to create my class so I can get that data any other way so I made it this way. It works fine.
If anyone has better solution, I will gladly change it. Cheers
This was suppose to be a comment, but this is just suppose to be an addition for anyone that needs help with this issue.
I know that this answer has been out there for a while but this still seems to be a running structural quirk with Firebase and the usage of their rules. I ran into this issue with a complex structure that looked kind of like this
-Orders
-9876trfghji (User ID)
-0
BusnID: "ty890oihg"
Name: "Some Name"
AddOns: Object
ItemData: Object(containing other objects)
UserID: "9876trfghji"
Note: In this case as well as the case with cordas, you will see that both of the final objects has a UserID or uid.
I also was running into the issue of class de-serialization of the object without having the actual User ID in the objects data when it was being sent back to the device.
The reason that you have a “redundant” usage of the user id is for a security measure with the Firebase rules. The first UserID with the structure above you are able to control the access to the information based off of the users id without having to have an extra validation clause in the rules. Currently as of this post the the rule below would protect the data based on the User ID.
“Orders” : {
"$uid":{
".read":"auth != null",
".write":"auth.uid == $uid"
}
}
this allows the user with only the authorized user id to write content but anyone that has valid credentials can view the data.
The second User ID has to be placed in the object because without it you would not be able to do a standard cast to the object because your object would not have all of the data it would need to create the object. Regardless of if you are using a package like GoogleGson or Newtonsoft.Json the object still isn't full.
There is how ever a work around for this problem besides re-entering the User ID into the object. With the object that I have above I decided to just re-enter the User ID in my personal code to save the time and hassle of manual creation.
Using the Firebase.Database NuGet package you can manually create the object. Here is an example of the object in cordas problem
public static void GetUser_Firebase(User user, FirebaseApp app)
{
FirebaseDatabase database = FirebaseDatabase.GetInstance(app);
DatabaseReference reference = database.GetReference($"/users/{user.UserID}");
//"Using for getting firebase information", $"/users/{user.UserID}"
reference.AddListenerForSingleValueEvent(new UserInfo_DataValue());
}
class UserInfo_DataValue : Java.Lang.Object, IValueEventListener
{
private string ID;
public UserInfo_DataValue(string uid)
{
this.ID = uid;
}
public void OnCancelled(DatabaseError error)
{
//"Failed To Get User Information For User "
}
public void OnDataChange(DataSnapshot snapshot)
{
Dictionary<string, string> Map = new Dictionary<string, string>();
var items = snapshot.Children?.ToEnumerable<DataSnapshot>(); // using Linq
foreach(DataSnapshot item in items)
{
try
{
Map.Add(item.Key, item.Value.ToString()); // item.value is a Java.Lang.Object
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
//"EXCEPTION WITH DICTIONARY MAP"
}
}
User toReturn = new User();
toReturn.UserID this.ID;
foreach (var item in Map)
{
switch (item.Key)
{
case "email":
toReturn.email = item.Value;
break;
case "lastName":
toReturn.lastName = item.Value;
break;
case "name":
toReturn.name = item.Value;
break;
case "phone":
toReturn.phone = item.Value;
break;
}
}
}
}
Update
There is something that I would like to mention that I left out when I was writing this and that is the usage of Firebase.Database NuGet package with the Gson NuGet package and the Newtonsoft.Json Library
If you decide to use the FIrebase.Database library just know that you will be working very close with the Java.Lang and the Java.Util libraries. Objects like Java.Lang.Object can be very difficult and time consuming to write the code needed to de-serialize the data, but don't fear Gson is here!
The Gson package if you allow it can take a large load of work off of your hands for class de-serialization if you allow it. Gson is a library that will allow you to do Java.Lang.Obj to json string de-serialization. I know it seems weird, hand it an object get back a string sounds counter intuitive I know but just bear with me.
Here is an example of how to us the Gson Library with the object in cordas problem.
public static void Get_User(User user, FirebaseApp app)
{
FirebaseDatabase database = FirebaseDatabase.GetInstance(app);
DatabaseReference reference = database.GetReference($"Users/{user.UserID}");
reference.AddListenerForSingleValueEvent(new User_DataValue(user, app));
//$"Trying to make call for user orders Users/{user.UserID}");
}
class User_DataValue : Java.Lang.Object, IValueEventListener
{
private User User;
private FirebaseApp app;
public UserOrderID_Init_DataValue(User user, FirebaseApp app)
{
this.User = user;
this.app = app;
}
public void OnCancelled(DatabaseError error)
{
//$"Failed To Get User Orders {error.Message}");
}
public void OnDataChange(DataSnapshot snapshot)
{
//"Data received for user orders");
var gson = new GsonBuilder().SetPrettyPrinting().Create();
var json = gson.ToJson(snapshot.Value); // Gson extention method obj -> string
Formatted_Output("Data received for user order json ", json);
User user = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<User>(json); //Newtonsoft.Json extention method string -> object
//now the user is a fully populated object with very little work
}
For anyone that might run into this in the future I hope that this helps
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I am developing a login application which save username and password using Shared Preferences in Xamarin Android (C#). Firstly, I get the username and password value from web service and then I check the value. If in my local db (sqlite) doesn't have the value so, I update the data with the newest one from web service. After that, I store the user ID by using my custom sqlite function to get the user ID with username and password.
So far, I can parse the Json Object from my web service and assign them into variables. But, I found something strange that, my parsed json object item can't be saved in my shared preferences. I've been 3 days searching and researching from internet but, I didn't find anything. I almost give up, guys. Would you like to help me? I would appreciate the helps.
Here what I did to my app.
I made utilities folder which save my essentials class. I made LoginSession class which save property of user now.
in my main activity
private void MyBtnLogin(object aSender, System.EventArgs e)
{
try
{
System.Net.Http.HttpClient client= new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(async () =>
{
string response = await _httpClient.GetStringAsync($"http://yourjson.com/{fix_email_value}");
JObject parsedObject = JObject.Parse(response);
int userID = parsedObject .Value<int>("ID");
string userEmail = _parsedResponseObject.Value<string>("Email");
string userPassword = _parsedResponseObject.Value<string>("Password");
List<User> lists= User.GetUserList(userID);
User updatedvalue= (from a in lists where a.Email == userEmail && a.Password == userPassword select a).FirstOrDefault();
if (updatedvalue== null)
{
updatedvalue= new User();
updatedvalue.ID = userID;
updatedvalue.Email = userEmail;
updatedvalue.Password = userPassword;
updatedvalue.StoreOrChange();
RunOnUiThread(() =>
{
SharedPref.UserIDNow= userID;
LoginSession.UserNow= User.GetID(userID);
});
} }
});
StartActivity(typeof(NextPage));
Finish();
}
and I retrieve the value in the next activity using SharedPref.UserIDNow to retrieve the user ID. I put the SharedPref.UserIDNow inside my static function to get current User ID
What am i missing? Everytime when I launch and login, after login the app closed like log out! and the value returns -22. Btw, -22 is a default value of my shared preference. I think it must be the ID of the User. Please help me :(
I test with your code , it works with no problem .
Some suggestions to troubleshoot .
Debug your code (add breakpoint) to check if SharedPref.UserIDNow= userID; has been executed , and also remove RunOnUiThread method ,you don't need to wrap code into it unless UI elements gets changed .
Use default SharedPreferences ,change preference as
private static ISharedPreferences preference = PreferenceManager.GetDefaultSharedPreferences(Application.Context);
Use Commit instead of Apply method on ISharedPreferencesEditor,Apply is asynchronous method which means if you read value too early ,you would get default value at that time .
I'm building a mood logging app using Xamarin forms for a university project but i've hit a wall when trying to return the data contained within a nested child node. Please see my firebase schema below:
BrainBreakApp
MoodLog #1
unique MoodLog id assigned by firebase
Mood Rating
Note
Location
Activities
Unique activity id assigned by firebase
activity logged by user (e.g. Shopping)
Unique activity id assigned by firebase
activity logged by user (e.g. Working)
MoodLog #2
MoodLog #3
etc.
I'm easily able to return all of the data within each mood log, except the data within the 'Activities' child node. I have placed 'shopping' and 'working' in bold because that is the data I need to return.
In my 'MoodLog' model, I have declared the 'Activities' attribute as a list of type 'Activity'; which is a separate model just containing an 'ActivityName' attribute. As my current code stands I need to return all of the activities for that particular log in a list that I can assign to the MoodLog 'Activities' attribute.
I've tried a number of approaches including adding the statement to return the list within the 'Activity' assignment and generating a list of the activities for each emotion log separately and assigning the returned list to 'Activity'; but clearly no luck. The issue i'm continually running into when trying to create a separate list of activities for that emotion log, is being able to access the firebase generated key for that particular log each time, and also being able to return a List<> type rather than a Task List<> type that I can't assign to the 'Activity' attribute.
I appreciate that much of the documentation states to make the schema as flat as possible, and if you can think of a flatter schema that will serve the same purpose that would also be fantastic.
I'm a complete Firebase newbie so any help at all would be very much appreciated!
I'll place my current code below and you will see where I need to add the list of activities:
public async Task<List<EmotionLog>> GetAllLogsForPerson()
{
var allPersons = await GetAllLogs();
await Firebase
.Child(LogChildName)
.OnceAsync<EmotionLog>();
return allPersons.Where(a => a.UserId == personId).ToList();
}
public async Task<List<EmotionLog>> GetAllLogs()
{
return (await Firebase
.Child(LogChildName)
.OnceAsync<EmotionLog>()).Select(item => new EmotionLog
{
UserId = item.Object.UserId,
DateTime = item.Object.DateTime,
Note = item.Object.Note,
Location = item.Object.Location,
MoodRating = item.Object.MoodRating,
NoActivities = item.Object.NoActivities,
Activity =
{
// Need to add list of activities here
}
}).ToList();
}
EDIT:
Please see the code below used to post the emotion log data to the firebase db. I add all of the other log data first in the 'AddLog' method, and then iterate separately through the activities using the 'AddActivity' method, which is called within the 'Add Log' method.
public async Task AddLog(string Id, string Note, string Location, DateTime DateTime, int MoodRating, List<string> ActivityList)
{
await Firebase
.Child(LogChildName)
.PostAsync(new EmotionLog() { UserId = Id, Note = Note, Location = Location, DateTime = DateTime, MoodRating = MoodRating});
await AddActivity(Id, ActivityList);
}
public async Task AddActivity(string Id, List<string> ActivityList)
{
var toAddUserActivities = (await Firebase
.Child(LogChildName)
.OnceAsync<EmotionLog>()).Last(a => a.Object.UserId == Id);
foreach (string item in ActivityList)
{
await Firebase
.Child(LogChildName)
.Child(toAddUserActivities.Key)
.Child(ActivityChildName)
.PostAsync(new Activity() { ActivityName = item });
}
}
The solution was to remove the unique Id assigned to each activity within the database. These were being generating because rather than just adding my activity list to the emotion log as one whole list, i was iterating through the list and adding each of them to the emotion log individually.
Once i removed the code that iterated through the activity list and changed my list to type List, everything worked perfectly :)
I have a case that I need to log the chat history (I am capable of doing this already) and I need it to be logged in a text file (able to log it already).
The problem is the file is being accessed all over again so I need to somewhere store the filename of the file somewhere else, right now I have this code:
public async Task LogAsync(IActivity activity)
{
var conversation = "";
var convActivity = "";
var ctr = 0;
conversation = $"From: {activity.From.Name}\r\n To: {activity.Recipient.Name}\r\n Message: {activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Attachments}\r\n ";
fileName = "test";
await LogActivity(fileName, conversation);
}
The LogActivity is the one handling the append of the file. So what I need is I want the unique fileName to be instantiated once while appending the file all over again or rather while continuously accessing this method.
Or is there a way to log the chat history of bot once like if a Context.Done was called or before it?
Or the inefficient way I am thinking of was making use of .From.Name and .Recipient.Name
So the result will be:
if (activity.From.Name.ToLower().ToString() == "user")
{
name.Value = $"{activity.From.Name.ToString()}";
conversation = $"From: {activity.From.Name}\r\n To: {activity.Recipient.Name}\n Message: {activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Text}\n";
}
else
{
name.Value = $"{activity.Recipient.Name.ToString()}";
conversation = $"From: {activity.From.Name}\r\n To: {activity.Recipient.Name}\r\n Message: {activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Text}\r\n ";
}
await LogActivity(name.Value, conversation);
If I understand correctly, you just want to persist a value throughout a conversation; in this case a filename.
If that's correct, then you can store it in PrivateConversationData which lives in thecontext.
For example:
context.PrivateConversationData.SetValue<string>("log_filename", "log-name-here.txt");
For an example, check here: https://www.robinosborne.co.uk/2016/08/08/persisting-data-within-a-conversation-with-botframeworks-dialogs/
For a full example about persisting the whole conversation, this might also help: https://www.robinosborne.co.uk/2016/11/22/transcribing-messages-in-botframework/
Okay, rposbo's answer also works if you have your own logger (that's what I observed, or maybe if you can implement it the other way around, you can use it, it's up to you) that will persist on each every conversation you have with your bot, see the link he provided on how to persist the whole conversation. As for my end, I used dictionary to store the filename. So down below is what I did
public string _Name { get { return name; } }
string name;
public static Dictionary<string, string> fileName = new Dictionary<string, string>();
public void SetFileName(string _fileName)
{
var isCached = fileName.TryGetValue("filename", out name);
if (!isCached)
{
name = $"{_fileName}_{DateTime.Now.Ticks}";
fileName.Add("filename", name);
}
}
Btw, can I accept two answers? since rposbo's answer also works, but it just doesn't fit for me.
currently I´m writing on a outlook plugin for syncing goolge contacts with outlook but I have to cover some special case:
When a contact gets deleted on google side, my application detects the missing contact and creates a new contact based on the contact info from the outlook one.
Is there a way to get an event or history from google that tells me a user deleted this contact(s)?
Edit 1:
Here is my code how I´m accessing the contacts (what is working FINE):
public GoogleAccessor()
{
var parameters = new OAuth2Parameters()
{
ClientId = CLIENTID,
ClientSecret = CLIENTSECRET,
RedirectUri = REDIRECTURI,
Scope = SCOPES
};
string url = OAuthUtil.CreateOAuth2AuthorizationUrl(parameters);
//An own webbrowser for processing the access tokens
IAuthorizationCodeProvider authcodeProvider = new Presentation.BrowserAuthorizationCodeProvider(new Presentation.BrowserAuthentificatorVM());
parameters.AccessCode = authcodeProvider.GetAuthorizationCode(url);
if(parameters.AccessCode == null)
throw new GoogleOAuthException("AccesCode returned 'null' and failed!");
OAuthUtil.GetAccessToken(parameters);
this._contactsRequest = new ContactsRequest(new RequestSettings(APPLICATIONNAME, parameters) {AutoPaging = true});
}
public IList<IContact> GetAllMappedContacts()
{
Feed<Google.Contacts.Contact> f = _contactsRequest.GetContacts();
this._feedUri = new Uri(f.AtomFeed.Feed);
var photoList = new List<PhotoObject>();
foreach (var entry in f.Entries)
{
var photoObject = GetContactPhoto(entry);
if(photoObject != null)
photoList.Add(photoObject);
}
_googleMapper = new GoogleMapper(f.Entries);
return _googleMapper.MapToLocalContacts();;
}
The thing about syncing in general is that syncing is normally meant to work in one direction.
Source Data -> Data Flow -> Received Data.
In this instance, Outlook is your source data and Google is your received data. All information needs to come from your source. Since this is an Outlook add-in you are creating my suggestion would be to add a button to your add-in ribbon. You can call the button whatever ever you like (maybe "dontSyncButton"), but it's purpose is going to be Categorization of your contact.
Make it so that that when a contact is selected and then the button is clicked, the contact is given a special categorization (perhaps "Dont Sync").
Now give some logic to your code that executes the sync, and have that logic decide whether to sync the contact. Also, give some logic to tell the program to delete the contact out of Google for you if the contacts contains the special category. Semi-Pseudo Code below:
if(contact.Categories.ToString() == "Dont Sync")
{
//Don't Sync Contact
If(googleContact.Exists())
{
//Delete contact from Google if it exist
googleContact.Delete();
}
}
else
{
//Sync Contact
}
It would be nice if Outlook had many modifiable properties that weren't visible to users, but since it does not this is really one of the best options I can think of. I do this to sync contacts from a shared Outlook folder to personal ones and it has worked well so far.
Hope this helps!
In CRM when emails arrive and have the tracking token in them they automatically set the regarding field to be the incident (or whatever they relate to)
Unfortunately the Record wall isn't updated with this info so even if you are following the case nothing alerts you to the new activity.
I want to write a plugin on email or incident (or both) that updates the record wall and creates a task to follow up on that email with in 3 days.
I'm looking at the SDK and I can't see what the appropriate event in the pipe line would be to work out when an email is/has its regarding field set on arrival in the CRM.
The CRM email creation life-cycle is not well described in the documentation. [shakes fist]
Extra things that are bothering me
I can't seem to include a reference to get a strongly typed Email, Post or Case (driving me crazy)
Testing this is really hard (harder than it should be)
EDIT Here is my current code
namespace Assembly.Plugins
{
using System;
using System.ServiceModel;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query;
/// <summary>
/// PostEmailDeliverIncoming Plugin.
/// </summary>
public class PostEmailDeliverIncoming : Plugin
{
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="PostEmailDeliverIncoming"/> class.
/// </summary>
public PostEmailDeliverIncoming()
: base(typeof(PostEmailDeliverIncoming))
{
RegisteredEvents.Add(new Tuple<int, string, string, Action<LocalPluginContext>>(40, "DeliverIncoming", "email", ExecutePostEmailDeliverIncoming));
// Note : you can register for more events here if this plugin is not specific to an individual entity and message combination.
// You may also need to update your RegisterFile.crmregister plug-in registration file to reflect any change.
}
protected void ExecutePostEmailDeliverIncoming(LocalPluginContext localContext)
{
if (localContext == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("localContext");
}
//Extract the tracing service for use in debugging sandboxed plug-ins.
ITracingService tracingService = localContext.TracingService;
// Obtain the execution context from the service provider.
IPluginExecutionContext context = localContext.PluginExecutionContext;
// Obtain the organization service reference.
var service = localContext.OrganizationService;
// The InputParameters collection contains all the data passed in the message request.
if (!context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") || !(context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity))
return;
// Obtain the target entity from the input parmameters.
var target = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];
// Verify that the target entity represents an account.
// If not, this plug-in was not registered correctly.
if (target.LogicalName != "email")
return;
if((string)target["direction"] != "Incoming")
return;
if (target["regardingobjectid"] == null)
return;
try
{
// if its not a case I don't care
var incident = service.Retrieve("incident", (Guid)target["regardingobjectid"], new ColumnSet(true));
if (incident == null)
return;
var post = new Entity("post");
post["regardingobjectid"] = target["regardingobjectid"];
post["source"]=new OptionSetValue(0);
post["text"] = String.Format("a new email has arrived.");
// Create the task in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
tracingService.Trace("FollowupPlugin: Creating the post.");
service.Create(post);
// Create a task activity to follow up with the account customer in 7 days.
var followup = new Entity("task");
followup["subject"] = "Follow up incoming email.";
followup["description"] = "An email arrived that was assigned to a case please follow it up.";
followup["scheduledstart"] = DateTime.Now.AddDays(3);
followup["scheduledend"] = DateTime.Now.AddDays(3);
followup["category"] = context.PrimaryEntityName;
// Refer to the email in the task activity.
if (context.OutputParameters.Contains("id"))
{
var regardingobjectid = new Guid(context.OutputParameters["id"].ToString());
followup["regardingobjectid"] = new EntityReference("email", regardingobjectid);
}
// Create the task in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
tracingService.Trace("FollowupPlugin: Creating the task activity.");
service.Create(followup);
}
catch (FaultException<OrganizationServiceFault> ex)
{
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("An error occurred in the FollupupPlugin plug-in.", ex);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
tracingService.Trace("FollowupPlugin: {0}", ex.ToString());
throw;
}
}
}
}
I've just been fighting with this exact same issue and came across this post. I thought I'd post the solution for you (if you still need it) and anyone else who comes across the issue in the future.
Here's the solution I arrived at:
- Using the Plugin Registration Tool register a New Image on the appropriate step( Stage = "40", MessageName = "DeliverIncoming")
- Set the New Image to be a Post Image
- In your plugin fetch the Post Image's entity ID:
Guid emailID = context.PostEntityImages["PostImage"].Id;
Entity emailFromRetrieve = localContext.OrganizationService.Retrieve(
"email",
emailID,
new Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query.ColumnSet(true));
Email email = emailFromRetrieve.ToEntity<Email>();
if (email.RegardingObjectId == null)
{
return;
}
var regardingObject = email.RegardingObjectId;
Hope this helps!
I'm actually working on a very similar plugin at the moment. Mine creates a custom entity upon arrival of an email addressed to a certain email address. It also associates the incoming email with that new record via the Regarding field. I've added a Pre-Operation step on Create of Email and it works great, including incoming email from the router.
What I'm not sure of is when CRM fills in the Regarding field. You might look at Post-Operation and see if it is set there?
One interesting caveat regarding the Regarding field (haha!): Unlike single lookup fields, the Regarding object's name is actually stored in the ActivityPointer table, so when you update the Regarding field, be sure to set the Name on the EntityReference. If you don't, the Regarding lookup will still have a clickable icon but there won't be any text. I do it like this:
email.RegardingObjectId = [yourentity].ToEntityReference();
email.RegardingObjectId.Name = email.Subject;
Hope that helps!
I ended up doing this in a workflow on the email entity
Steps
Create new workflow, I called it 'incoming email workflow'
Scope is Organisation
Choose Email as the entity and check 'Record field changes'
Add a step that checks Regarding (Case):Case Contains Data
if true:
Add a step that creates a Post
Edit the properties in the Post
Text : This case has had {Direction(E-mail)} email activity from {From(E-mail)}
Source : Auto Post
Regarding : {Regarding(E-mail)}
Add a step that creates a Task
Edit the properties in the Task
Subject : Follow up {Subject(E-mail)}
Regarding : {Regarding(E-mail)}
Try to use the following code:
if ((bool)entity["directioncode"] == false)
Instead of your code:
if((string)target["direction"] != "Incoming")