Web Services Activity Insert problem with linking to child contact records

Question

Hi - I am trying to use WS 2.0 to insert a new activity and link it to a list of contacts. I have converted this from WS 1.0. It works fine without the contact linking code but fails with the following message when linking to the contact records...
Update operation on integration component 'Activity' failed because no matching record in business component 'Action' with search specification '[Description] = "Test2"' could be found.(SBL-EAI-04403)
Here is a simplified version of the code in question...
activity2.Activity act = new activity2.Activity();
act.Url = cs.crmSessionUrl;
activity2.ActivityInsert_Input input = new activity2.ActivityInsert_Input();
input.ListOfActivity = new activity2.ListOfActivityData();
input.ListOfActivity.Activity = new activity2.ActivityData[1];
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0] = new activity2.ActivityData();
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].Subject = "Test2";
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].Activity = "Task";
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].Status = "Completed";
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].Type = "Email";
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].DueDate = DateTime.Parse( DateTime.Now.ToString("M/d/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].AccountId = "AEGA-BGV8Z9";
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].ListOfContact = new activity2.ListOfContactData();
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].ListOfContact.Contact = new activity2.ContactData[1];
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].ListOfContact.Contact[0] = new activity2.ContactData();
input.ListOfActivity.Activity[0].ListOfContact.Contact[0].Id = "AEGA-CCMEWM";
activity2.ActivityInsert_Output output = act.ActivityInsert(input);
Any suggestions would be great!

Answer 1

Try using execute instead.
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:ns="urn:crmondemand/ws/ecbs/activity/10/2004"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"
xmlns:data="urn:/crmondemand/xml/Activity/Data">
<soapenv:Header>
<wsse:Security>
<wsse:UsernameToken>
<wsse:Username>yourusername</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">yourpassword</wsse:Password>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<ns:ActivityExecute_Input>
<data:ListOfActivity lastpage="?" recordcount="?">
<data:Activity operation="insert">
<Subject>Test7</Subject>
<AccountId>AALA-5KC0OV</AccountId>
<Type>Email</Type>
<Status>Completed</Status>
<Activity>Task</Activity>
<data:ListOfContact>
<data:Contact >
<data:Id>AALA-5851K0</data:Id>
</data:Contact>
</data:ListOfContact>
</data:Activity>
</data:ListOfActivity>
</ns:ActivityExecute_Input>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns:ActivityExecute_Output xmlns:ns="urn:crmondemand/ws/ecbs/activity/10/2004">
<ListOfActivity xmlns="urn:/crmondemand/xml/Activity/Data">
<Activity>
<ModifiedDate>2012-06-07T01:00:09Z</ModifiedDate>
<CreatedDate>2012-06-07T01:00:09Z</CreatedDate>
<ModifiedById>AALA-583LBZ</ModifiedById>
<CreatedById>AALA-583LBZ</CreatedById>
<ModId>1</ModId>
<Id>AALA-5TG95O</Id>
<CreatedBy>Web Services Administrator, 06/06/2012 18:00:09</CreatedBy>
<ModifiedBy>Web Services Administrator, 06/06/2012 18:00:09</ModifiedBy>
<ListOfContact>
<Contact>
<ModifiedDate>2012-03-19T20:19:55Z</ModifiedDate>
<CreatedDate>2012-03-05T21:43:14Z</CreatedDate>
<ModifiedById>AALA-583LBZ</ModifiedById>
<CreatedById>AALA-583LBZ</CreatedById>
<ModId>79</ModId>
<Id>AALA-5851K0</Id>
<CreatedBy>Web Services Administrator, 03/05/2012 13:43:14</CreatedBy>
<ModifiedBy>Web Services Administrator, 03/05/2012 13:43:14</ModifiedBy>
</Contact>
</ListOfContact>
</Activity>
</ListOfActivity>
</ns:ActivityExecute_Output>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>