Unable set organizer in Appointment (EntityCollection)

[Wirbelrind]

I'm trying to create a new appointment using the toolkit, but fail when setting the organizer or the required people.

Error messages:

• No parse handling implemented for type EntityCollection used by field organizer
• No parse handling implemented for type EntityCollection used by field
• No parse handling implemented for type EntityCollection used by field optionalattendees

$clientOptions = include(ROOT . '/system/config.php');
$clientSettings = new Settings($clientOptions);
$client = new Client($clientSettings);
$metadata = MetadataCollection::instance($client);
	
$salesorder = $client->entity('salesorder', $salesorderid);
        
$appointment = $client->entity('appointment');
$appointment->subject = $subject; //Betreff
$appointment->ownerid = $systemuserid;
$appointment->regardingobjectid = $salesorder;
$appointment->description = $description;
$appointment->statuscode = 1;
$appointment->statecode = 0;
$appointment->scheduledstart = strtotime($startdatetime);
$appointment->scheduledend = strtotime($enddatetime);
   
$appointmentID = $appointment->create();
     
$appointment = $client->entity('appointment', $appointmentID );
$appointment->requiredattendees =  new EntityReference ('systemuser', $systemuserid);
$appointment->update();

where is my mistake or how can I fill the appropriate fields

[georged]

Hi @Wirbelrind

requiredattendees (and any other similar fields) are arrays of ActivityParty records (see here).

I believe you have to set those before create the appointment as per C# sample. Try something like

$party = $client->entity('activityparty');
$party->partyid = new EntityReference ('systemuser', $systemuserid);
...
$appointment->requiredattendees = [ $party ];
$appointment->organizer = [ $party ];

$appointmentID = $appointment->create();

HTH
George

[Wirbelrind]

The error messages are now fixed but the data in activity party are still not registered.

At the table level I can see that the appointment is created, owner is set accordingly. But neither the organizer nor the required people.

Any other ideas where the problem could be?

Wirbelrind

[georged]

Hi @Wirbelrind

can you paste the full code creating the subscription please?

Thanks
George

[Wirbelrind]

@georged

Here is our complete test code

<?php
require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use AlexaCRM\CRMToolkit\Client;
use AlexaCRM\CRMToolkit\Entity;
use AlexaCRM\CRMToolkit\Entity\EntityReference;
use AlexaCRM\CRMToolkit\Entity\MetadataCollection;
use AlexaCRM\CRMToolkit\Settings;

session_start();
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

define("ROOT", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

include(ROOT . '/system/config.php');

class CRM {
    function getData($fetch) { //Daten einer fetchabfrage lesen
        $clientOptions = include( 'config.php' ); //Daten der CRM Verbindung
        $clientSettings = new Settings($clientOptions);
        $client = new Client($clientSettings);
        $metadata = MetadataCollection::instance($client);
        $crmdata = $client->retrieveMultiple($fetch);
        $data = null;
        $i = 0;
        foreach ($crmdata->Entities as $val) {
            $data[$i] = $val;
            $i++;
        }
        return $data;
    }
}

//vars for the test
$systemuserVar = '[email protected]';
$salesorderID = 'b12447aa-9d93-e711-80e3-3863bb34b7d0';



$clientOptions = include(ROOT . '/system/config.php'); 
$clientSettings = new Settings($clientOptions);
$client = new Client($clientSettings);
$metadata = MetadataCollection::instance($client);

$searchOwner = '<fetch mapping="logical" version="1.0">'
        . '<entity name="systemuser">'
            . '<all-attributes /> '
            . '<filter> '
                . '<condition attribute="internalemailaddress" operator="eq" value="'.$systemuserVar.'" />'
            . '</filter> '
           . '</entity>'
        . '</fetch>';

$oCRM = new CRM(); 
$systemuser = $oCRM->getData($searchOwner); //retrun object array
    
$salesorder = $client->entity('salesorder', $salesorderID);

$activityparty = $client->entity('activityparty');
$activityparty->partyid = new EntityReference('systemuser', $systemuser[0]);
    
$appointment = $client->entity('appointment');
$appointment->subject = 'test appointment';
$appointment->ownerid = $systemuser[0];
$appointment->regardingobjectid = $salesorder;
$appointment->description = 'description text';
$appointment->statuscode = 1;
$appointment->statecode = 0;
$appointment->scheduledstart = strtotime('24.01.2019 10:00');
$appointment->scheduledend = strtotime('24.01.2019 12:00');
    
$appointment->organizer = [ $activityparty ];
$appointment->requiredattendees = [ $activityparty ];
$appointmentID = $appointment->create();

I hope it helps

Wirbelrind

[georged]

Hi @Wirbelrind

$systemuser[0] is an entity, I don't believe it can be used everywhere where id is expected. It works for ownerid because we handle assignment of an entity to a lookup field. In other places where guid is required, it may not work. Basically instead of

$activityparty->partyid = new EntityReference('systemuser', $systemuser[0]);

try

$activityparty->partyid = new EntityReference('systemuser', $systemuser[0]->id);

Cheers
George

[RichPitul]

Did this ever work? I think I've tried every combination above and still nothing.

[georged]

@RichPitul activityparties is a, uhm, challenge. Can you share the code what you're trying to achieve and the error you're getting?

[RichPitul]

Hi @georged I am trying to do exactly this, create appointments and include a requiredattendee; which is a contact that is either already in CRM or a new Contact
I've tried all combinations of the above code; string guids of the contact , entity references, anything I can think of. Strangely I don't receive an error message; the appointment get's created, just without the attendee added.

`
function createAppointment($userId, $contactId, $start, $end, $subject, $description, $location, $contactEmail) {
$contactActivityParty = $this->service->entity('activityparty');
$contactActivityParty->partyid = new EntityReference('systemuser', $systemuser[0]->id);
$requiredAttendiesList = array();
$requiredAttendiesList[] = $contactActivityParty;

        $appointment = $this->service->entity('appointment');            
        $appointment->subject = $subject;
        $appointment->description = $description;
        $appointment->location = $location;
        $appointment->ownerid = $userId;            
                    
        $appointment->scheduledstart = strtotime($start);
        $appointment->scheduledend = strtotime($end);                        
        $appointment->requiredattendees = $requiredAttendiesList;
        $appointmentId = $appointment->create();

}
`

[georged]

@wizardist do we support activityparty in the above context?

[wizardist]

No, we do not.

This code implies deep insert and other forms of wizardry which are not supported. There is a plan to add support for easy activityparty handling in the Web API toolkit though so that a PHP equivalent of the code below is possible (see AlexaCRM/dynamics-webapi-toolkit#16)