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Create a BC Customer linked to a Contact using Page web services

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Hello folks,

In Business Central, our client has exposed page web services. Hence I am able to consume the SOAP based page service of Customer, Contact, etc.

Using these web services, I can create Customer or Contact record separately from a C# Console application. But can't link Customer to a Contact or vice versa. It generates an error when Customer object has a reference to Contact.No.
Error:   Message=Contact CT000055 <contact_name> is not related to customer 5025 <customer_name>.


From BC web UI, I can create a Contact (Type = Company) and then from Actions menu, I can create an associated Customer for this Contact. By doing so, the Contact gets linked to a Customer. I am trying to achieve the same results using the C# code with SOAP based page services.

Further if a Customer record is created (without any Contact) from UI then it automatically creates a Contact (type=Company) with same name as Customer. I would like to know if this has been configured intentionally. Rather is this feature hindering the C# code to link a Customer to Contact.

Please suggest the appropriate C# code to create a Customer record linked to a Contact.

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    divyeshchitte Profile Picture
    970 on at

    Make sure that all your Customer's have a Contact created with a Type of Company for the Customer. If they don't Create Contacts from Customer and then you can Create the Contact under that customer

    For eg:

    Contact No Type Company No
    C001 Company C001 This will Be your Customer
    C002 Person C001 This will Be your Contact
  • Ajay Chawla Profile Picture
    15 on at

    Hi Divyesh,

    Thanks for the response.

    The Contacts are created as Type=Company. But I can't find a code (C# code using BC page services) to create a BC customer from these Contact.

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