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January 18, 2013 3 comments

There are 2 calls that you would use to get information on rules for a specific site.

First you would call GetSiteRules in order to find the specific rule_id’s that you wanted to look up for a site.
Then you would call GetSiteRuleValue with the rule_id that you looked up before in order to see what the specific site you were looking for is using.

GetSiteRules: https://centershiftdevx.com/2011/04/20/sws-getsiterules-method/

GetSiteRuleValue: https://centershiftdevx.com/2011/04/20/sws-getsiterulevalue-method/

Here are the rule_id’s that are for the Reservation Rules

RULE_ID = 299
RULE NAME = Reservation Parameters
DESCRIPTION = Sets general reservation parameters for this site.

RULE_ID = 300
RULE NAME = Reservation Threshold Logic
DESCRIPTION = Sets vacancy threshold logic for allowing reservations based on count and/or percentage.

RULE_ID = 301
RULE NAME = % Available Threshold
DESCRIPTION = Sets the minimum percentage (for example, .25 equals 25%) of units that must be available before a reservation can be made.

RULE_ID = 302
RULE NAME = Quantity Available Threshold
DESCRIPTION = Sets the minimum number of units that must be available before a reservation can be made.

SWS getTenantLetterListV2 Method

October 10, 2012 1 comment

Retrieves tenant letter document information for an entire site, account and/or rental item. Receipts are excluded if they were centrally mailed. Includes additional return fields not found in the original version GetTenantLetterList.

Parameters

Name DataType Is Required
AcctID Long Optional*
Description The account’s ID number. This is returned when you use the CreateNewAccount method or can be retrieved with the SearchBy method.
* AcctID, RentalID or SiteID is required.
EndDate DateTime Optional
Description The end of the date range for which you are requesting the letters. Defaults to the StartDate if left undefined.
RentalID Long Optional*
Description The rental item’s ID number. This is returned when using the MakeReservation method or can be searched for using the SearchBy method.
* AcctID, RentalID or SiteID is required.
SiteID Long Optional*
Description The site’s ID number. This can be found using the GetSiteList method.
* AcctID, RentalID or SiteID is required.
StartDate DateTime Optional
Description The start of the date range for which you are requesting the letters. Defaults to today if left undefined.

Returned Parameters

Name DataType
ACCT_ID Long
Description The account’s ID number.
CERTIFIED String
Description Indicates that the letter is flagged to be sent as certified mail (“Y”) or as regular mail (“N”).
CREATED DateTime
Description The created date and time of the record.
EXPORT_DATE String
Description The date the letter was exported to a .pdf for printing.
EXPORT_ID Long
Description The export ID number in which the letter was sent.
GROUP_MEANING String
Description The textual value of the LTR_TYPE_GROUP.
LTR_NAME String
Description The textual value of the LTR_TYPE_ID
LTR_NUM Long
Description The letter number. This is system generated when the letter is generated and is primarily used for tracking.
LTR_TYPE_GROUP Integer
Description The group number assigned to the letter template type.
Common values:

  • 1 – Invoice
  • 2 – Late Notice
  • 8 – Welcome Letter
LTR_TYPE_ID Long
Description The ID to the specific letter template used to generate the letter.
MAIL_LOCAL String
Description Indicates if the letter will be printed and mailed by the site (“Y”) or sent through centralized mail (“N”).
PRINT_MEANING String
Description The textual value of the PRINT_SPECIAL parameter.
PRINT_SPECIAL Integer
Description The type of special printing required for the letter. The default is “0” for “Plain Letter”.
RENTAL_ID Long
Description The rental item’s ID number.
SITE_ID Long
Description The site’s ID number.
UNIT_NUMBER String
Description The unit’s number as assigned by the organization. This is not the UnitID.
VERSION Integer
Description The version number of the letter template that was used to create the letter. Defaults to 1 if there have been no updates.
WHO_CREATED String
Description The name of the user that created the letter.
SCHEDULED DateTime
Description The date and time the letter was scheduled to be created.
MAILED_DATE DateTime
Description The date and time the letter was mailed, if done through centralized mailing.
ERROR_CODE Integer
Description The error codes numeric value. While this is called an error code, it does not necessarily indicate an error has occured.
ERROR_CODE_MEANING String
Description The textual value of the ERROR_CODE. While this is called an error code, it does not necessarily indicate an error has occured.

Example

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

We will assume you have a web reference, let us name it SWS, in your Visual Studio project. At this point we need to define our objects. We’ll need the standard service object, a GetTenantDocList request object, and a GetTenantLetterListV2 response object. We can define and create those like this:

// Create a request and response objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.getTenantDocList_Request request = new SWS.getTenantDocList_Request();
SWS.getTenantLetterListV2_Response response;

Here is a sample code of the request object:

// GetTenantDocList Request
request.SiteID = 123456;
request.AcctID = 123456;
request.RentalID = 123456;
request.StartDate = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-30);
request.EndDate = DateTime.Today;

Finally we can call the method and pass across the login object and the request object to retrieve our requested information. 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.getTenantLetterListV2(user_request, request);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Note that if something goes wrong the service will respond with an exception. You will want to capture the message in the exception so it can be debugged.

For a full list of methods see SWS Methods.