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@MrDigitronic - the September version is now available. Here's the help center article on the Google Calendar: http://www.methodintegration.com/method/kb.aspx?folder=methodcrm&article=How-Google-Calendar-sync-works&id=214 Paul

Hi Marybeth! [quote user="Marybeth Murphy"]I'm trying to play with conversions of leads into customers, and it seems that it can only be done via opportunities.[/quote] There are a few ways to convert leads into customers, closing your opportunities is one but you can also convert a lead right from the edit lead page.  If ...

"September" version will be available later today The following updates are now available on the staging site.  You can access the September version by clicking "Switch to the September Version" when you sign into Method. Google Calendar sync is here! - Method now syncs nicely with Google Calendar. Your Method ...

I'm back! I'm trying to play with conversions of leads into customers, and it seems that it can only be done via opportunities. What I want to know is, what is an opportunity used for? It seems more specific than campaigns and specific to a particular lead/customer. Are opportunities to be used as a series of contact to make one particular ...

(claps from our Dev team for using Linq) Paul

Dave Thanks for your reply.  We've found it easier to use LINQ to xml instead ado dataset.  As such we can easily dig out the attributes.  We can take the approach you've suggested, It'll just take a couple of extra lines code.

Hi LaCrews Good suggestion...unfortunately it is not going to be done at this time. For the select XML methods you will need to check whether the MethodIntegration node has children. For the select dataset methods need need to check the row count of the first datatatable of the dataset Dave  

Hi SmileJV and LaCrews, Some fields are not meant to be populated by users. An example of this is the RecordID field of the contacts table. This field is an identity field that is automatically populated when a new record is added. This is probably where your insert is failing. Following up on LaCrew's point. Some fields are ...

Hi Dominic Riccetti, We don't allow table join queries via the API. I'll put in a suggestion about allowing this in the future. To accomplish what you are trying to do you need to link the tables first and then query the resulting table via the API. I'm gonna point you at the following ...

Is it possible to get an attribute that is a count of the number of records in the returned xml?  This would be especially helpful when the call is successful but no records are returned and no record tags are in the xml.