Hi,

I am currenlty participating in a proof of concept with a potential Enterprise Client.

Problem: Want to Create custom fields in an Opportunity that are calculated from other fields.

Proposed Solution: Write a web service sitting at client site, triggered from a web-link which passes Opportunity ID.

Q1: How do I pass the OpporunityID as a parameter, from a web-link on the Opportunity Page?

Q2: I have written a c# test client. (currently searches for Opportunity by Name, to get hold of the object).

This works, allows me to gain access to the opportunity. I can query the values of two of the custom fields and from that calculate the other two.

When I set the value of the other two and update (using the API update method). The  custom fields do not update.

As a test I tried to update the NextStep attribute of the same object before calling update. This worked fine for the next step update, but still nothing on the custom fields.

I beleive that the downloaded WSDL file generates the proxy classes in VS OK as

a: the VS.NET intellisense contains the custom fields and

b: I can retreive custom values fine.

Any Suggestions much appreciated

Thanks, Gareth.

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Code:

-- This is the Update Routine.

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......

public static ArrayList oppList = new ArrayList();

.........

oppList = connection.queryOpportunity (txtOppName.Text,howMany);

....

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private void btnUpdateOp_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

Opportunity opp;

btnUpdateOp.Enabled=false;

opp=(Opportunity) oppList[0];

opp.PFM__c= System.Convert.ToDouble(txtPFM.Text);

opp.Commission__c =System.Convert.ToDouble(txtCom.Text);

opp.NextStep=txtNextStep.Text;

connection.updateOpportunity(opp);

btnUpdateOp.Enabled=true;

}

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public bool updateOpportunity(Opportunity pOp)

{

....

SaveResult[] saveResults = binding.update(new WebReference.sObject[] { pOp});

...

}

(Note SaveResult[0].Success == True)