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Returns a rental contact from a rental contact ID or a collection of rental contacts for an account ID. If you retrieve the contacts by the account ID, do not use the CONTACT_TYPE 4 (Business Contact Record) as the primary contact in a rental. This will cause problems with the rental and may destabilize the account. The Business Contact Record is for Store use only.

Parameters

Returned Parameters

Example

As with every method we need to pass in credentials. We do this with the LookupUser request object.

We’ll assume you’ve got a web reference, let’s name it SWS, in your Visual Studio project.  At this point we need to our objects.  We’ll need the standard service object, a GetContacts request object and a GetContacts response object.  We can define and create those like this:

// Create request and response objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.GetContacts_Request request = new SWS.GetContacts_Request();
SWS.GetContacts_Response response;

Here’s my sample code of the Request object.

// GetContacts Request
request.SiteID = 123456;
request.AcctID = 123456;

Finally we can call the method and pass across the login object and the request object to get our contacts. It’s a good idea to do this in a Try Catch block.

// Call the method that will load the response object
try
{
  response = service.GetContacts(user_request,request);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Note that if something goes wrong the service will respond with an exception. You’ll want to take a look at that message returned in that exception so it can be debugged.

For a full list of methods see SWS Methods.