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mdrussell0779mdrussell0779 

Getting ID of contact by email?

Guys,

 

I'm farily new to the API. I am successfully inserting data into our tables, but one of the tables requires a contact, so I'm wondering how I get the ID of the contact by a provided email address?

 

Example:


SforceService.Storage_Work_Order__c soh = new SforceService.Storage_Work_Order__c();

soh.Order_Date__c = new DateTime(2011, 9, 12);

soh.Order_Date__c = DateTime.Today;

 

// Get ID of requesting customer by provided email address.

 

soh.Requesting_Customer__r.Id = ????

^^^^^

 

I assume I'd need to build a contact object based on the result of the email address search and pass that object to the customer_r.id field. Does anyone have an example?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mcrosbymcrosby

Assuming your contact records have unique email addresses, you might try something like the following:

 

'using a binding to SforceService called "binding"

string queryString = "select Id from Contact where Email = '" + yourEmailParam + "'";
QueryResult qr = binding.query(queryString);

string contactId = '';

if(qr.size > 0)
{
    Contact c = (Contact)qr.records[0];
    contactId = c.Id;
}

soh.Requesting_Customer__c = contactId;