Set/clear interest on contact

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Version: 10

• 3 minutes to read

You can search for an interest and then set the interest to true or false. Here, we use a CRMScript.

Code

#setLanguageLevel 4;

Integer personId = 13;
Integer interestToSelectId = 5;

NSPersonAgent agent;
NSPersonEntity entity = agent.GetPersonEntity(personId);
NSSelectableMDOListItem[] interests = entity.GetInterests();

for (Integer i = 0; i < interests.length(); i++)
{
  NSSelectableMDOListItem interestsOrHeadings = interests[i];

  if (interestsOrHeadings.GetId() == interestToSelectId)
  {
    interestsOrHeadings.SetSelected(true);
    printLine("InterestId " + interestToSelectId.toString() + " with name: " + interestsOrHeadings.GetName() + " found on root level");
  }

  NSSelectableMDOListItem[] childItems = interestsOrHeadings.GetChildItems();
  for (Integer y = 0; y < childItems.length(); y++)
  {
    if (childItems[y].GetId() == interestToSelectId)
    {
      childItems[y].SetSelected(true);
      printLine("InterestId " + interestToSelectId.toString() + " with name: " + childItems[y].GetName() + " found as a childInterest under heading: " + interestsOrHeadings.GetName());
    }
  }
  interestsOrHeadings.SetChildItems(childItems);
}

entity.SetInterests(interests);
entity = agent.SavePersonEntity(entity);

Walk-through

In SuperOffice, you can define an interest both with and without a heading (an interest can also exist under multiple headings). Each interest has its unique ID, which we in the example above used to set a specific interestId to true. It doesn't matter if you move an interest to a different heading, as the unique ID stays consistent.

First, we need to loop the NSSelectableMDOListItem[] we get back from the GetInterests() method:

NSPersonAgent agent;
NSPersonEntity entity = agent.GetPersonEntity(personId);
NSSelectableMDOListItem[] interests = entity.GetInterests();

In this array, we can put interests/items on the root, without a heading. Or we can get an item for the heading, which then contains child items for the actual interests (nested).

This code block checks the root:

if (interestsOrHeadings.GetId() == interestToSelectId)
{
  interestsOrHeadings.SetSelected(true);
  printLine("InterestId " + interestToSelectId.toString() + " with name: " + interestsOrHeadings.GetName() + " found on root level");
}

Here, we get the child items for the item/heading and check each of the nested items:

NSSelectableMDOListItem[] childItems = interestsOrHeadings.GetChildItems();
for (Integer y = 0; y < childItems.length(); y++) 
{
  if (childItems[y].GetId() == interestToSelectId)
  {
    childItems[y].SetSelected(true);
    printLine("InterestId " + interestToSelectId.toString() + " with name: " + childItems[y].GetName() + " found as a childInterest under heading: " + interestsOrHeadings.GetName());
  }
}
interestsOrHeadings.SetChildItems(childItems);

Note

We also need to SetChildItems back into the interestOrHeadings array.