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Create a Request, Change Order and Contact through Web Services via VB

Step1: Create a web reference in the front end.

1. Start the front end.
2. Go to Website menu and click “Add web reference”.
3. In the URL box provide the web service URL and click go. http://<hostname>:8080/axis/services/USD_R11_WebService?wsdl'''
4. We can find the methods being pulled out.
5. Add the webreference with the name “WebReference”.

Step 2: Create an Object of the web reference

<source lang="javascript">Dim ws As New WebReference.USD_WebService</source>

Step 3: Specify the Correct web service URL

<source lang="text">ws.Url = "http://<hostname>:8080/axis/services/USD_R11_WebService?wsdl"</source>

Step 4: Provide the username and password to get the sid value

<source lang="javascript">Dim username, password As String Dim sid As Integer username = "analyst1" password = "123" sid = ws.login(username, password)</source> where login is the method used to get the sid.

Step 5: Get the User Handle

<source lang="javascript">Dim userhandle As String userhandle = ws.getHandleForUserid(sid, username)</source> Where getHandleForUserid is the method

Step 6: Create a Request

<source lang="javascript">Dim attrVal(5), attr(1), prop(1), persistent_id As String Dim requestHandle, requestNumber As String attrVal = New String() {"customer", userhandle, "category", "<category id>", "description", "Description here"} prop = New String() {""} attr = New String() {persistent_id} requestHandle = "" requestNumber = "" ws.createRequest(sid, userhandle, attrVal, prop, "", attr, requestHandle, requestNumber)</source>

Step 7: Create a Change Order

<source lang="javascript">Dim attrVal(5), attr(1), prop(1), persistent_id As String Dim requestHandle, requestNumber As String attrVal = New String() {"requestor", userhandle, "category", "category id", "description", "description here"} prop = New String() {""} attr = New String() {cpersistent_id} requestHandle = "" requestNumber = "" ws.createChangeOrder(sid, userhandle, attrVal, prop, "", cattr, requestHandle, requestNumber)</source>

Step 8: Create a contact

<source lang="javascript">Dim attrVal(5), attr(1), persistent_id As String Dim contactHandle, contactNumber As String attrVal = New String() {"first_name","Mike", "last_name", "Tolland", "userid", "mike.tolland", "contact_num", "<Password here>", "email_address", "mike.tolland@abc.co.in", "phone_number", "00989876723"} attr = New String() {persistent_id} ws.createObject(sid, "cnt", attrVal, attr, contactHandle, contactNumber)</source>