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Re: paying bills

paul — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:20:27 GMT

Is there any update on this?

Customer Portal with Payment Options?

paul — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:25:41 GMT

I'm testing out using the Customer Portal feature in the Method Integration so that my customers can view their invoices and account details. The feature works great, but I'd love it if I could customize this feature to be able to add payments as a feature. It looks like printing an invoice is pretty straight forward, so customers could mail in a check, but I'd like them to have the option of making credit card payments online.

I believe these are called Sales Receipts in Quickbooks, but I'm not certain. So, Is there a way to add in creation of Sales Receipts to the Customer Portal?

Thanks!

Re: MethodAPIInsert error with input field array

paul — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:29:06 GMT

Peter,

Looks good! Thanks a ton! i just found out another good practice for using nusoap. I found some documentation that recommmends using the nusoap_client constructor in case the PHP install has both SoapClient and Nusoap installed, that way you know you're getting the right object!

I.e. $client = new nusoap_client('https://www.methodintegration.com/MethodAPI/service.asmx?wsdl', true);

Thanks again!

Tempuri.org on production

paul — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:12:33 GMT

I noticed tempuri.org on your production WSDL in many places. Might be worth updating.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempuri

SOAP response envelope of containing ArrayOfString

paul — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:09:26 GMT

Do any API respones return data of the tns:ArrayOfString type. I need to see how the envelope is formed and I only API requests envelopes that adhere to that spec.

Re: MethodAPIInsert error with input field array

paul — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:33:36 GMT

I just looked out at my outbound SOAP envelope and it looks like this

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<MethodAPIInsert>
<strCompanyAccount>MYCOMPANY</strCompanyAccount>
<strLogin>MYUSERNAME</strLogin>
<strPassword>MYPASSWORD</strPassword>
<strTable>Customer</strTable>
<arrInsertFieldsArray>
<string/>
</arrInsertFieldsArray>
<arrInsertValueArray>
<string/>
</arrInsertValueArray>
<intResponseRecordID/>
</MethodAPIInsert>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

So clearly, something is messed up with the input array elements. I'm using PHP's Nusoap library and it might be handling the request data improperly.Could you please provide and example of a property formatted SOAP envelope for creating a Customer ( or any request that uses sub arrrays ).

Thanks!

Re: Email Questions - Field Services, All day event

paul — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:08:58 GMT

Ryan,

Could please be more specific with the solution youre suggesting. I'm under the "Customize" tab and I dont see

I've logged in done the following steps:

Click "Customize" in the top tab bar.

Click "Tables/Fields" in the sub tab bar.

And I don't see "AddEditWorkOrder" in the list anywhere.

Am I missing something?

MethodAPISelect_XML limit question

paul — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:06:24 GMT

Hello,

I'm experimenting with the API and wanted to just browse some of the data in some of tables. To put it more simply, I'd like to run the equivalent of this SQL query over the API.

Select Name from Customers limit 5;

It looks like I should be using the MethodAPISelect_XML to accomplish this. In the documentation I see some flags for manipulating the query such as 'Having','GroupBy' and 'OrderBy'. I was wondering if there was a flag for limiting the number of elements in the response document?

Gracias!

Re: MethodAPIInsert error with input field array

paul — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:39:08 GMT

Paul.

Thanks for the response. I think I see what youre saying, but I dont know if it applies here. PHP arrays natively assign indexing without construction arguments (i.e. default sizing), so when I say

$fieldArray = array('Name');

I've just created an arrray with one element indexed at position 0. So

echo $fieldArray[0];

would print out 'Name'

I've worked with other less dynamic languages where going off the end of an array can be quite problematic, but PHP is pretty flexible with such things.

Also, in addition I tried using PHPs associative array function with indexing manually forced in just to make sure I wasnt overlooking something.

'arrInsertFieldsArray' => array( '0' => 'Name'),
'arrInsertValueArray' => array( '0' => 'Frank the Tank'),

Which is roughly equivalent to :

'arrInsertFieldsArray' => array('Name'),
'arrInsertValueArray' => array('Frank the Tank'),

But I was just trying to experiment with your suggestion. But alas, I'm still seeing the same error.

Thanks for your time,

Paul

Re: MethodAPIInsert error with input field array

paul — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:24:20 GMT

Paul,

Thanks for your quick response. So far, I'm finding the API pretty nice to work with, but I haven't quite gotten my customer insert test to work yet. Here's a block of my code in PHP. Please note that I noticed all of your code samples were in VB and ASP.NET, so once my project is complete, I'd be glad to post my code so other PHP developers can reuse some snippets.

Does everything look in order?

<?php

//@TODO : Add in SSL encryption componenet, currently just communicating over unsecure HTTP

    //use the nusoap library
    require_once('lib/nusoap.php');

   //define the SOAP Client and point to the SOAP Server
   $client = new soapclient('http://www.methodintegration.com/MethodAPI/service.asmx?wsdl',true);

   $array = array( 'strCompanyAccount' => 'MYCOMPANY',
                      'strLogin' => 'MYNAME',
                      'strPassword' => 'MYPASSWORD',
                      'strTable' => 'Customer',
                      'arrInsertFieldsArray' => array('Name'),
                      'arrInsertValueArray' => array('Frank The Tank'),
                      'intResponseRecordID' => $id,
                   );

   print_r( $client->call('MethodAPIInsert', $array));

   echo 'Response code : '.$id;

   //kill the client
   unset($client);

/*
   Framework for the call based upon this element from the WSDL
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="strCompanyAccount" type="s:string"/>
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="strLogin" type="s:string"/>
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="strPassword" type="s:string"/>
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="strTable" type="s:string"/>
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="arrInsertFieldsArray" type="tns:ArrayOfString"/>
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="arrInsertValueArray" type="tns:ArrayOfString"/>
   <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="intResponseRecordID" type="s:string"/>
*/

?>

When I run this test insert, I'm still getting this response:

Array
(
[MethodAPIInsertResult] => A blank field name was entered in the arrInsertFieldArray. Please verify there are no empty items in the arrInsertFieldArray.
[intResponseRecordID] =>
)

Thanks for your time!