Setting and Using Entity Images (Pictures) in Dynamics 365

In Dynamics 365, we can set the image of certain entities, for example below we can see there is a photo of a contact record:

Only certain out of the box entities can have entity images. These are below. Note the asterisk means enabled by default:

• Account *
• Campaign
• Competitor *
• Connection
• Contact *
• Contract
• EmailServerProfile
• Goal
• Incident
• Invoice
• KbArticle
• Lead *
• Mailbox
• Organization
• OpportunityProduct
• Product *
• Publisher *
• Queue
• Resource *
• SalesLiterature
• SalesOrder
• SystemUser *
• Territory
• TransactionCurrency

To disable or enable the entity image, go to the entity in Customizations. You will see the Primary Image field, which is set to either [None] or the field name of the entity image, in this case, Entity Image:

If we try to add a new image field to a system entity, we will get an error message, as you can only have one image per file:

Error message – “A custom image attribute can only be added to a custom entity”:

To add an entity image to a custom entity, create the new entity:

Create a new Entity Image field:

Note if you try to add a second field of type image to the form, it will automatically default the name to entityimage and not allow you to add a second image field:

The entity image field should then be set on the form properties:

Now, to show the image, select one of your forms, e.g. the Main Form. Open it and go to Form Properties:

Click on Display tab and select Show image in the form:

Save and Publish the entity. You will now see the custom entity has images enabled:

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