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BulkData GetBulkContacts Method


Retrieves the list of contacts, created at the organization, up to 96 hours in the past. This will retrieve all contacts on an account. Empty fields will not be returned.

Parameters

Name Data Type Is Required
OrgID Long Required
Description The organization’s ID number.
BeginDate DateTime Required
Description The beginning date of the date range for which to pull the list of new contacts. This date cannot be more then 96 hours in the past.
EndDate DateTime Optional
Description The end date of the date range for which to pull the list of new contacts. This will default to SYSDATE if left undefined.

Returned Parameters

Name Data Type
CONTACT_ID Long
Description The contact’s ID number.
ACCOUNT_ID Long
Description The account’s ID number.
ACCOUNT_NAME String
Description The name on the account. This may differ from the primary contact in some instances.
FIRST_NAME String
Description The contact’s first name.
LAST_NAME String
Description The contact’s last name.
KNOWN_AS String
Description The name by which the customer prefers to be called.
CONTACT_TYPE_NUM Integer
Description The numeric value of the contact type.
Available values:

  • 1 – Account Manager
  • 2 – Account User
  • 3 – Account Contact Only
  • 4 – Business Contact Record
CONTACT_TYPE_VAL String
Description The textual value of the contact type.
Available values:

  • Account Manager – 1
  • Account User – 2
  • Account Contact Only – 3
  • Business Contact Record – 4
EMPLOYER String
Description The customer’s current employer.
ACTIVE Boolean
Description Indicates if the contact is active (“True”) or not (“False”).
EMAIL String
Description The contact’s email address. This is the customer’s username if eStore/eCommerce are supported.
ECOMM_CODE String
Description No longer returned.
FLEX_01 String
Description A custom field, set up by the organization, designed to hold additional contact information. This is not displayed in the Store application.
FLEX_02 String
Description A custom field, set up by the organization, designed to hold additional contact information. This is not displayed in the Store application.
FLEX_03 String
Description A custom field, set up by the organization, designed to hold additional contact information. This is not displayed in the Store application.
FLEX_04 String
Description A custom field, set up by the organization, designed to hold additional contact information. This is not displayed in the Store application.
FLEX_05 String
Description A custom field, set up by the organization, designed to hold additional contact information. This is not displayed in the Store application.
CREATED_DATE DateTime
Description The date the contact was created.
CREATED_BY_ID Long
Description The user’s ID that created the contact.
CREATED_BY_NAME String
Description The first and last name of the user that created the contact.
UPDATED_DATE DateTime
Description The date the contact was last updated.
UPDATED_BY_ID Long
Description The user’s ID that last updated the contact.
UPDATED_BY_NAME String
Description The user’s first and last name that last updated the contact.
ORG_ID Long
Description The organizations ID number.

Example

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

// Create request and response objects
BulkData.LookupUser_Request user_request = new BulkData.LookupUser_Request();
BulkData.BulkDataSoapClient service = new BulkData.BulkDataSoapClient();
BulkData.BulkData_Request request = new BulkData.BulkData_Request();

Here’s my sample code of the Request and user objects.

// request
user_request.Username = "user";
user_request.Password = "pass";
user_request.Channel = 999;

request.OrgID = 123546;
request.BeginDate = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1);
request.BeginDate = DateTime.Today;

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

// Call the method that will load the response object
try
{
  BulkData.BulkContacts_Response response;
  response = service.GetBulkContacts(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 BulkData Methods.

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