CreateCustomer

Description

This method creates a new customer.

Parameters

Interfaces

• Dynamics GP
• Sales

Examples

The following C# example creates a new customer with the key value “CONTOSO”. The Name property is set, and all other properties are left as default values.

 Legacy endpoint

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DynamicsGPWebServiceSample.DynamicsGPService;

namespace DynamicsGPWebServiceSample
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			CompanyKey companyKey;
			Context context;
			Customer customer;
			CustomerKey customerKey;
			Policy customerPolicy;

			// Create an instance of the service
			DynamicsGP wsDynamicsGP = new DynamicsGP();

			// Be sure that default credentials are being used
			wsDynamicsGP.UseDefaultCredentials = true;

			// Create a context with which to call the service
			context = new Context();

			// Specify which company to use (sample company)
			companyKey = new CompanyKey();
			companyKey.Id = (-1);

			// Set up the context
			context.OrganizationKey = (OrganizationKey)companyKey;

			// Create a new customer object
			customer = new Customer();

			// Create a customer key
			customerKey = new CustomerKey();
			customerKey.Id = "CONTOSO";
			customer.Key = customerKey;

			// Set properties for the new customer
			customer.Name = "Contoso, Ltd";

			// Get the create policy for the customer
			customerPolicy = wsDynamicsGP.GetPolicyByOperation("CreateCustomer", context);

			// Create the customer
			wsDynamicsGP.CreateCustomer(customer, context, customerPolicy);
	}
}
}

 Native endpoint

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DynamicsGPWebServiceSample.DynamicsGPService;

namespace DynamicsGPWebServiceSample
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			CompanyKey companyKey;
			Context context;
			Customer customer;
			CustomerKey customerKey;
			Policy customerPolicy;

			// Create an instance of the service
			DynamicsGPClient wsDynamicsGP = new DynamicsGPClient();

			// Create a context with which to call the service
			context = new Context();

			// Specify which company to use (sample company)
			companyKey = new CompanyKey();
			companyKey.Id = (-1);

			// Set up the context
			context.OrganizationKey = (OrganizationKey)companyKey;

			// Create a new customer object
			customer = new Customer();

			// Create a customer key
			customerKey = new CustomerKey();
			customerKey.Id = "CONTOSO";
			customer.Key = customerKey;

			// Set properties for the new customer
			customer.Name = "Contoso, Ltd";

			// Get the create policy for the customer
			customerPolicy = wsDynamicsGP.GetPolicyByOperation("CreateCustomer", context);

			// Create the customer
			wsDynamicsGP.CreateCustomer(customer, context, customerPolicy);

			// Close the service
			if(wsDynamicsGP.State != CommunicationState.Faulted)
			{
				wsDynamicsGP.Close();
		}
	}
}
}

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