2010 Act Premium - SDK - Fields not updating immediately

[bobberino1]

Hi,

I'm using Act 2010 Premium with SDK and I'm trying to get the values of the contact fields after they're updated.  The fields aren't updated until I click on a company and then a contact within that company and then return to the original contact that has been changed. 

 Contact contact =  application.ApplicationState.CurrentContact;

contact.Update();

Act.Framework.MutableEntities.MutableEntity.FieldCollection contactFields = contact.Fields;

string newCompanyName = Convert.ToString(contactFields["Contact.Company", false]);  

the newCompanyName retains the old value until the steps taken above..

Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?

Bob

[mwood]

Rather than forcing an update for the current contact you could monitor the Contact_Updated event and make the changes at that point. Another option could be to do the same with except with the FieldChanged event which occurs after changing a field then leaving for another.

Also how are you setting the field value? .SetValue?

Hope this helps.

[GLComputi…]

Are you changing the field in ACT! or via the SDK?

[bobberino1]

No, not changing the fields via SDK.  Just trying to obtain the values using the SDK. 

 I found a solution.  I couldn't use application.ApplicationState.CurrentContact to get the updated values so I used 

private ActFramework ACTFM;

ContactList

contactList = ACTFM.Contacts.GetContactsByID

as long as I click the save button, I could get the most updated values.

I hope that helps anyone researching this in the future