Syntax

sfdcCreateAccount(sfdcConnection, sfdcAccount, [sfdcAPIVersion])

Description

Creates an account in the Salesforce environment.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
sfdcConnection	SFDCConnection	Yes	Salesforce Connection - it is the object resulted from the call to the connectToSalesforce routine.
sfdcAccount	SFDCAccount	Yes	Structure containing the fields of the account that will be created. This is a predefined structure type described below. When creating an account, only the Name field is required.
sfdcAPIVersion	string	No	The Salesforce API version to be called when creating the account, it should have the following form: "vXX.X" - eg: "v43.0", "v42.0". It is not required and if empty, the latest available version will be used.

SFDCAccount fields

Note that the Name field is required, the rest of the fields are optional.

Field	Type
Name	string
AccountNumber	string
AnnualRevenue	string
BillingCity	string
BillingCountry	string
BillingPostalCode	string
BillingState	string
BillingStreet	string
Description	string
Fax	string
Industry	string
NumberOfEmployees	number
Ownership	string
Phone	string
Rating	string
ShippingCity	string
ShippingCountry	string
ShippingPostalCode	string
ShippingState	string
ShippingStreet	string
Sic	string
Site	string
TickerSymbol	string
Type	string
Website	string

Return type

string - Salesforce Account ID

Example

The following example will create an account in Salesforce with the specified fields.

SFDCConnection conn = connectToSalesforce("SFDC_test");

logPrint("WARN", "Connected to SF: " + conn.instance_url + " - " + conn.access_token);

SFDCAccount newAccount;
newAccount.Name = "Created with routine";
newAccount.Description = "This is my new account";
newAccount.NumberOfEmployees = 312;
newAccount.Industry = "Phone production";

string accId = sfdcCreateAccount(conn, newAccount);
logPrint("WARN",  "Created account with id: " + accId);

sfdcCreateAccount