Hi,

I'm coding a Win32 program to create leads in saleslogix using sdata client library. I was able to insert a lead and the associated LeadAddress by instantiating a SDataPayload that looks like this:

SDataPayload leadPayload = new SDataPayload();
            leadPayload.ResourceName = "Lead";
            leadPayload.Namespace = "http://schemas.sage.com/dynamic/2007";
            
            leadPayload.Values.Add("Company", entityDictionary["Company"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("FirstName", entityDictionary["FirstName"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("MiddleName", entityDictionary["MiddleName"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("LastName", entityDictionary["LastName"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("Title", entityDictionary["Title"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("WorkPhone", entityDictionary["WorkPhone"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("EMail", entityDictionary["EMail"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("Notes", entityDictionary["Notes"]);
            

            //Create Address
            SDataPayload addressPayload = new SDataPayload();
            addressPayload.ResourceName = "Address";
            addressPayload.Values.Add("Address1", entityDictionary["Address1"]);
            addressPayload.Values.Add("City", entityDictionary["City"]);
            addressPayload.Values.Add("State", entityDictionary["State"]);
            addressPayload.Values.Add("PostalCode", entityDictionary["PostalCode"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("LeadAddress", addressPayload);

 So far, so good, this works ok, the entity is created without problem, by default it is assigned owner "Everyone".

Now, I'm not sure how to explicitly set the Owner of that Lead. I tried setting a nested payload, using a similar pattern to the address entity, like this:

SDataPayload ownerPayload = new SDataPayload();
            ownerPayload.ResourceName = "Owner";
            ownerPayload.Values.Add("OwnerId", entityDictionary["SeccodeId"]);
            leadPayload.Values.Add("Owner", ownerPayload);

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work.

I've been googling around for maybe an hour without much luck. Could anyone shed some light into this???

Thanks!!!

This post of mine might help: http://customerfx.com/pages/crmdeveloper/2011/12/01/including-nested-payloads-with-sdata-for-saleslogix.aspx

Basically, you're on the right track. You create an nested payload. You could do it all inline with something like this:

leadPayload.Values["Owner"] =
    new SDataPayload {
        Values = {
            { "OwnerId", "SECCODE VALUE" }
        }
    };

or get the nested payload already contained in the template (if you're creating the lead from a template - if not just create a new payload, set the values and then set it back to the property in the main load payload), set the values and then set it back in the main lead payload like this:

var leadOwnerPayload = (SDataPayload)payload.Values["Owner"];
leadOwnerPayload.Values["OwnerId"] = "SECCODE VALUE";