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By the way, I should give a shout out to Mark Crews also - he has definitely been helpful in the past, as he is here. Sorry for forgetting about you, Mark. Maybe we should form the Method API Real World (tm) user group. :-)

Hey Suzanne, We use Mac OS X as well and have been unable to reproduce this behaviour. Go to Customize > Portals > click Edit... next to the approrpiate portal and ensure that the Portal Name field is not blank. If it isn't then advise those customers to clear their browser history and try again. Are you able to replicate this on ...

And David, I really do appreciate your responsiveness, but gbisaga has nailed it: it seems like there's not really an understanding of how the API will actually be used in the real world. I want to implement this software in more places, but further API development has to be part of that. 

Outstanding! I'm actually working from within a WordPress front end, but I'm sure there's useful structure in your code that would help answer some of the questions I'm having. I don't mean to sound frustrated, but I just keep hearing the same answers over and over which don't actually address my questions. I'm not sure ...

I totally feel your pain because I am in the same boat. There are some folks here on the forum who are trying to be helpful (Dave from Method being one), but often I find we are not speaking the same language. I suspect the biggest problem is that Method people have never really had to use their API to solve real business problems, so they are not ...

Hi, I'm finding that a handful of our customers that are having trouble logging into the Portal, are using a MAC (and I'm assuming Safari - but can't say for sure).  The error message they get is something like this:   "Portal name was not specified in the URL - Please check the URL prvided and try again" Any ...

Hi ImTheirWebIT I'd have to say that I've gotten great support from these guys. Have you tried using MethodAPISelect_XMLV2 instead of the DataSet Select? Instead of returning a .Net object it returns raw xml. From Method's API documentation here's an example xml response for the Select_XMLV2 method <?xml ...

Thanks, Dave, but aside from learning that Like is supported and joins are not, that just wasn't very helpful. I've used all the documentation at http://www.methodintegration.com/Method-API-for-QuickBooks-CRM.aspx, but don't see much in the way of actual data examples in there. You offer some code examples in .Net and VBA, and ...

Hi Matt and ImTheirWebGuy, Good catch Matt. ImTheirWebGuy you're gonna want to look at the documentation here http://www.methodintegration.com/Method-API-for-QuickBooks-CRM.aspx - like is supported - (referr ing to t he documentation) datReturnedDataSet is a dataset passed in by reference....see my example above for the c# ...

Hi Matt! OK, that solved the initial error message. Now, how do I use the rest of the fields?  - Can I use a "Like" operator in the strWhereClause (or any other fuzzy operator?)  - Putting any value at all in datReturnedDataSet causes an error; what's the syntax for value in this field?  - Since ...