Programatically returning the existing list of products/services

[philz]

Hello All,

I am working on a c# plugin that will create opurtinities based on invoices created in another DB. I have the c# query working fine and have managed to kludge together a way to insert a new oppurtinty into ACT. So now I am trying to associate a product with this opportunity. Are products/services unique to each opportunty? Should'nt I be able to ask ACT for a list of the list of existing products and services the same way that I use GetStages("Commitment to Buy")? How do I do that?

Here is what I have so far:

// Create a new Oppurtinty

OpportunityManager OppMan = new OpportunityManager(this.application.ActFramework);
Stage[] stages = this.application.ActFramework.StageManager.GetStages("Commitment to Buy");
Opportunity o = OppMan.CreateOpportunity("", OpportunityStatus.Open, stages[0], DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1), false);

// Find product 

o.Update();

//end Create a new Oppurtinty

Thanks and Kindest Regards

[vivek · Accepted solution]

Hi Philz,

You should be able to simply call on the ProductManager and GetProducts() method:

ActFramework.Products.GetProducts(sortCriteria); which will return a ProductList collection from which you can itterate through.

HTH.

[vivek · Accepted solution]

Hi Philz,

You should be able to simply call on the ProductManager and GetProducts() method:

ActFramework.Products.GetProducts(sortCriteria); which will return a ProductList collection from which you can itterate through.

HTH.

[philz]

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vivek wrote:

Hi Philz,

You should be able to simply call on the ProductManager and GetProducts() method:

ActFramework.Products.GetProducts(sortCriteria); which will return a ProductList collection from which you can itterate through.

HTH.

Thank you! 

To summise for others my snippet looks like this and executes sucessfully:

OpportunityManager OppMan = new OpportunityManager(this.application.ActFramework);
Stage[] stages = this.application.ActFramework.StageManager.GetStages("Commitment to Buy");
Opportunity o = OppMan.CreateOpportunity("MoreTest123", OpportunityStatus.Open, stages[0], DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1), false);
SortCriteria[] sortCriteria = null;
ProductList prod = this.application.ActFramework.Products.GetProducts(sortCriteria);
string s = prod[0].ToString();
MessageBox.Show(s);
o.Update();