Get a contact through entities layer

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Getting a contact through the entities layer is pretty straightforward. You need to import the SuperOffice.CRM.Entities namespace.

The following example shows how it is done.

using SuperOffice;
using SuperOffice.CRM.Entities;
using(SoSession mySession = SoSession.Authenticate("SAL0", ""))
{
  //Get a contact through Idx class
  Contact contactThroughIdx = Contact.GetFromIdxContactId(3);

  //Access the Name property
  string name = contactThroughIdx.Name;
}

When retrieving a Contact entity through an Idx class, you have to pass the ID of the entity. Then all its properties will be retrieved from the database and kept in memory. This allows you to access the properties.

You can alternatively use the services layer.