Visual Basic 6.0 Dynamics CRM: Create a Phone Call

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Creates a phone call record regarding the Fourth Coffee account (b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200), regarding the "Faulty product catalog" incident (c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8), from the system user Allie Bellew (832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4), to the contact Gabriele Cannata (57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200). A successful response is indicated by a 204 response status code with no response body.

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/web-api/phonecall?view=dynamics-ce-odata-9

CURL Command

curl -X POST https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
  -H "OData-MaxVersion: 4.0"  \
  -H "OData-Version: 4.0" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "subject": "Sample Phone Call 123",
    "phonenumber": "3125551920",
    "description": "Sample phone call created using the Chilkat Rest API",
    "scheduledend": "2018-04-29T11:56:21Z",
    "regardingobjectid_account@odata.bind": "/accounts(b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)",
    "actualdurationminutes": 25,
    "directioncode": true,
    "phonecall_activity_parties": [
        {   "partyid_systemuser@odata.bind": "/systemusers(832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4)",
            "participationtypemask": 1 },
        {   "partyid_contact@odata.bind": "/contacts(57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)",
            "participationtypemask": 2 },
        {   "partyid_incident@odata.bind": "/incidents(c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8)",
            "participationtypemask": 8 }
    ]
}'

Visual Basic 6.0 Example

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest
Dim success As Long

'  URL: https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "ConnectFailReason: " & rest.ConnectFailReason
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("subject","Sample Phone Call 123")
success = json.UpdateString("phonenumber","3125551920")
success = json.UpdateString("description","Sample phone call created using the Chilkat Rest API")
success = json.UpdateString("scheduledend","2018-04-29T11:56:21Z")
success = json.UpdateString("""regardingobjectid_account@odata.bind""","/accounts(b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)")
success = json.UpdateNumber("actualdurationminutes","25")
success = json.UpdateBool("directioncode",1)
success = json.UpdateString("phonecall_activity_parties[0].""partyid_systemuser@odata.bind""","/systemusers(832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4)")
success = json.UpdateNumber("phonecall_activity_parties[0].participationtypemask","1")
success = json.UpdateString("phonecall_activity_parties[1].""partyid_contact@odata.bind""","/contacts(57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)")
success = json.UpdateNumber("phonecall_activity_parties[1].participationtypemask","2")
success = json.UpdateString("phonecall_activity_parties[2].""partyid_incident@odata.bind""","/incidents(c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8)")
success = json.UpdateNumber("phonecall_activity_parties[2].participationtypemask","8")

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=utf-8")
success = rest.AddHeader("OData-Version","4.0")
success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
success = rest.AddHeader("OData-MaxVersion","4.0")
success = rest.AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN")

Dim sbRequestBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim respStatusCode As Long
respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If