All picklists for Contact, Opty, Lead, Activity objects - Exported to exter

Question

We have a requirement for extracting all picklists to an external database on a daily basis. We would like to use the Web Services to do that. We have no cascading picklists. We would like to use English and French languages (if not possible to haev English and French side by side, then English alone would be ok). Initial snapshot would take everything and then, only records which have been modified since last time data was extracted (if possible).
It would be nice to have the external table look like:
Object
Field Name
Value English
Value French
Enabled flag
Date CRMOD created
Date CRMOD modified
1) What would be the WS call(s) to achieve initial extract?
2) Can we extract for all objects at once or do we have to go object by object?
3) What would be the WS call(s) to get records that would have changed since last time?
Thanks

Answer 1

The web service for this is in the services WSDL. Its a pretty straight forward SOAP message with only a few parameters to set.
From the web services guide:
Support for Multi-Select Picklists
A multi-select picklist is a picklist from which the user can select multiple values. In Web Services
On Demand, multi-select picklists are only exposed for the following record types:
■ Account
■ Activity
■ Contact
■ Custom Object 01
■ Custom Object 02
■ Custom Object 03
■ Lead
■ Opportunity
■ Service Request
For these record types, all standard and custom multi-select picklist fields are exposed. You can add,
remove, replace or query selections in parent-level multi-select picklist fields, however child-level
multi-select picklist fields are not supported.
Input and output values are language-independent code (LIC) delimited, but the multi-select picklist
delimiter is always a semicolon regardless of locale for input and output: <LIC1>;<LIC2>.
I hope this helps