How to add a product to an Opportunity?

[vivek]

Hopefully someone can put me out of my misery! I seem to be going round in circles trying to work out how to add a product to an Opportunity.

To use the Opportunity.UpdateProducts(...) method you need an OpportunityProduct Object. I can get a Product Object via the ActApplication.ActFramework.Producsts.GetProductByName("myProduct"); But how on earth do I make the Product Object into a OpportunityProduct Object?

I presume that a OpportuityProduct SubEntity object is a wrapper or abstraction object to the Product and each OpportunityProduct has a unique ID that is associated with an Opportunity object and is different to a Product ID.

Can someone let me know if it is possible to add a product to a Opportunity with the new ACT! 2010 SDK It used to be a fairly straight forward procedure previously but my brain is tied up in knots now!

Yours very confused,

[mwood]

George recently posted something on getting products for opportunities, let me know if that helps, if not I have a few product samples I can probably pull from.

Here is his post.

[vivek]

Hiya Matthew,

Thanks for the quick reply and link.

I had a look through the code that George had posted but the problem is I am attempting to create a new OpportunityProduct Object i.e. I have a new Opportunity object and would like to add Products to that new Opp.

The Opportunity.UpdateProducts method only takes OpportunityProduct objects and I can not find any way to convert a Product to a OpportunityProduct, if that makes any sense! haha

[mwood · Accepted solution]

This sample adds a new OpportunityProduct to the current opportunity

Opportunity o = ActApp.ApplicationState.CurrentOpportunity;

            OpportunityProduct oppProd = ActApp.ActFramework.Products.OpportunityProductManager.CreateCustomEntity();
            oppProd.Name = "Test Prod";
            oppProd.Quantity = 1;
            oppProd.Cost = 100;
            oppProd.Price = 50;
            oppProd.Discount = 0;
            oppProd.SetOpportunities(ActApp.ActFramework.Opportunities.GetOpportunityAsOpportunityList(o));
            oppProd.Update();

[vivek]

Thanks Matthew, that did the trick. For some reason I just had not noticed the strange OpportunityProductManager property, mind you I dont think I would have guessed that that was the way forward

Cheers once again