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Adds a rental contact to the specified account and returns a copy of the contact information. Also adds addresses and phone numbers to the new contact.

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, an AddNewContact request object and an AddNewContact response object.  We can define and create those like this:

// Create request, response, address and phone objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.Contact_Request  request = new SWS.Contact_Request();
SWS.Contact_Response response;

SWS.ContactAddress address = new SWS.ContactAddress();         
SWS.ContactPhone phone = new SWS.ContactPhone();

Create the parameters for the address, phone and contact request objects. Note, no ID’s other than account ID are entered. This method is creating a new address, phone and contact and associating them with a previously established account.

//Create a new address record
address.Active = true;
address.Addr1 = "123 Main St";
address.City = "My Town";
address.State = "UT";
address.PostalCode = "12345";
address.AddrType = SWS.AddressType.HOME;

//Create a new phone record
phone.Active = true;
phone.Phone = "800-555-1212";
phone.PhoneType = SWS.PhoneType.MOBILE;

//Add new contact request object
request.AcctID = 123545;
request.Active = true;
request.Addresses = new SWS.ContactAddress[]{ address };
request.Phones = new SWS.ContactPhone[] { phone };
request.FirstName = "First";
request.LastName = "Last";
request.ContactType = SWS.ContactType.ACCOUNT_MANAGER;
request.Email = "first@co.com";

Now we can call the method.

try
 {
    // Call the method that will load the response object
    response = service.AddNewContact(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.