How do we insert or create a new contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM?

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For now we have completed the authentication process through azure. And now our next step is to create or insert a new contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Please provide me a rest API documentation through which i can create a new contact through iOS.

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ashlega 34,475 on at

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RE: How do we insert or create a new contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM?

Hi Rupesh,

have not worked with IOS, but this post seems to be covering the authentication and basic Web API:

scaleablesolutions.com/connect-ios-app-to-dynamics-crm-using-web-api

Once/if you have that, you'll find a bunch of examples on how to create records through Web API usage here:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg328090.aspx
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shivaram 3,315 on at

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RE: How do we insert or create a new contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM?

Hi Rupesh,

If you import Managed solution CRM Rest builder in to your solution, then you will get one button like CRM Resr Builder. once you click it, you will get options like, create, update,retrieve,retrieve Multiple etc. Once you select any thing and give any options and click generate query, then it will give you a query.

Hope it helps you

Best regards,

Shivaram
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Aric Levin 30,188 on at

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RE: How do we insert or create a new contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM?

Hi,

If you are using JavaScript, you can use something similar to the following code:

function createContact()

{

var serverURL = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl();

var contact = {};

contact["firstname"] = "John";

contact["lastname"] = "Smith";

contact["emailaddress1"] = "john.smith@contoso.com";

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();

req.open("POST", crmServerUrl + "/api/data/v8.0/contacts", true);

req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");

req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");

req.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");

req.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");

req.onreadystatechange = function () {

if (this.readyState == 4 /* complete */) {

req.onreadystatechange = null;

if (this.status == 204) {

var contactUrl = this.getResponseHeader("OData-EntityId");

} else {

var error = JSON.parse(this.response).error;

alert(error.message);

}

}

};

req.send(JSON.stringify(contact));

}

If you are using Azure, and you want to do this using C#, see the following code sample from Microsoft:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../mt779074.aspx

You can also see this article by scalable solutions how to add authentication to the code above.

scaleablesolutions.com/web-api-authentication-from-javascript

Hope this helps.
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RE: How do we insert or create a new contact in Microsoft Dynamics CRM?

You can use mscrm sdk .

web api to be exposed and that should be published on the server.

consume this web api from ios.