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Last post 02-26-2008 7:14 PM by Fergal O'donnell. 4 replies.
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  • 02-21-2008 6:45 PM

    Merge Constituents

    Is is possible to call the Merge Constituents fuction through the API? If so how?

    Thanks, Fergal. 

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  • 02-22-2008 3:59 AM In reply to

    • David Zeidman
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    Re: Merge Constituents

    There is no equivalent merge function in the API unfortunately. You have to do it manually.

     David

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  • 02-24-2008 10:28 PM In reply to

    Re: Merge Constituents


    Thanks David.

    Is it possible to detect that a merge has happen after the event. What I need to do is somehow detect a merge of constituent A into constituent B so I can pass that information onto other database systems.

    After I merge (with the delete option) Constituent A into Constituent B I can see in the Raisers Edge database that:

    • The rows for constituent A has been completely deleted.
    • Constituent B has been updated (by looking at the timestamp)

    What I cannot detect is

    • If constituent A was just deleted or was the delete part of a merge operation.
    • Was constituent B just updated or was it part of a merge operation.
    • If the update was part of a merge, what was the constituent Id of the record that was merged into it.

    Fergal.

     

  • 02-25-2008 6:33 AM In reply to

    • David Zeidman
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    Re: Merge Constituents

    In VBA there is are two MergeConstituent events; before and after the merge. You could track the merge here.

    David

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  • 02-26-2008 7:14 PM In reply to

    Re: Merge Constituents

    Thanks David!

    That was exactly what I needed, I hadn't realised that those events existed.

     Fergal.

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