I am new to Quickbooks and given task of integrating Quickbooks desktop and web application(c#) via webconnector.I have written Webservice and communicated between Quickbooks and web application throught qbfc and qbxml.My doubts are,
Whenever a record is updated/inserted say for eg.Customer data ,I need it to be updated automatically to my webapplication..Is that possible?
How will I know that record is updated/inserted ?
Can someone please help me out?
Whenever a record is updated/inserted say for eg.Customer data ,I need
it to be updated automatically to my webapplication..Is that possible?
Yes.
How will I know that record is updated/inserted ?
Query QuickBooks by the TimeModified timestamp. That will give you a list of objects that have changed since the given date/time.
If you simply need one way integration ie. Whenever a new customer is created in Quickbooks add it to your database, then you can either write a windows service or a scheduled exe that runs every x minutes and updates the data.
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I have an application which uses the data from web server. When you first launch the app, it downloads the data and then work with it. But what if the data on web site was changed. How can I know from the application that the data was changed, and if so, what data should I download?
My first idea was each time when you run the application to check the number of entries in the local database on your phone and the number of entries on web server, and if they are not equal, delete all data in local database and then download all data again. But I think that it will take more time than if the application just loads 5-10 needed records instead of all data.
The second idea was when the information on the site changes, website somehow has to inform the application to load some records. But I don’t know if it is possible to do(
Another idea was to compare the id of the last entry in the application database with last id on website. And if they are not equal download the information from the next id.
Are there any suggestions how can I accomplish this?
I am not sure that you have any database or web services but my suggestion is parsing data from the web with JSON or XML.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSXMLParser_Class/
this class reference is will be clear for you.
Also in my opinion, if you are new in swift and want to choose easy way for this operation search for iOS package managers.
If you want to use a package manager for your project, e.g Pod
https://cocoapods.org/pods/Alamofire
would be a good startig point.
Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift.
Hope to helped you
I have a database of many users,which i want to store on both locally and on my server.Whenever user updates any information,i successfully updates it in local database using core database. But how to change this information into the server?? I am not getting this please help?
I thinking of sqlite file to server every time user updates his information. but how to send data of sqlite file to server?
Add a column to your local DB that is the last time updated. (I think there may be a way to get SQLite to fill this in semi-automatically for you, but even doing it "manually" is no big deal.) Then, when you want to upload updates, query for rows updated since the last upload. Ship to the server as JSON records.
You can also keep a separate table that tracks updates, but that's for more complex scenarios.
You have to use some tactics for this. Here is a short explanation of this work.
Database Structure
Web service
You have to design database at local and server side and manage flag(Bool) and update time.
Like when you launch app then you have to check your local data and take last update date and send request to server what's new update after this date. If there is any update then you can send data as a result of that webservice and handle that response at local device.
When you do some changes at local device then you have to manage flag, update time and created date. flag will show it has update on server or not. If updated then Y otherwise N. And you have to send created and updated date with this.
During this request you have to manage in a same timezone. You can use standard UTC timezone because there may be chances that User can switch in different timezones so handle this.
If you need more clarification then you can ask at our chat room https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/43424/coders-diary
This approach definitely work for you.
I'm new to fogbugz, so I may be making some incorrect assumptions. However, my understanding is that when a ticket is Closed, then the assigned To field becomes "Closed".
How can I search for all of the tickets for which I was the assigned person BEFORE it was closed?
I don't think there is any way to do this via UI / Dashboard, instead you have to use FOGBUGZ API & code to get the data you want. Use the API to get the tickets under milestone and then loop through to get the Assigned To / Developer . That's how we have been playing.
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I have now played with the QBO and QBD APIs and feel I have a fair understanding of how it thinks and how to interact with it. So now it is time to design the actual integration solution.
Inside my application you can create new customers, quote services, perform services, and soon, pass invoices to QuickBooks, sounds easy.
But what if the customer is not in QB yet? No problem - for each invoice I will look up the customer (need the id anyway) and if it doesn’t exist, add it. But if I have to look up the customer for each invoice it seems like it might be slow. I will likely have 30,000 customers and have 500-3000 invoices per day.
So my question is this; what are others doing?
a) Are you storing the QB id for each customer in your data?
b) How do you detect address changes (changed in your app and changed in QB)?
c) Is the batch submission interface so much faster I should use that?
Thanks for your help!
We often times do store the QB id in our database for use. If we post an invoice into QB, we'll then store the QB id for future use if we need to modify it.
As far as detecting changes on the customer record and other info, there's a couple ways to handle the conflict resolution. One is to keep a timestamp on your side as to when changes are made. You can then compare this with the timestamp of the last change on the QB record and then make your decision as to which one gets updated.
FreddyMac,
To detect changes on the Intuit side you can construct a query with a CDCasOf Filter, which will return only the data that has changed since a date you provide. (ChangeDataCapture as of)
https://ipp.developer.intuit.com/0010_Intuit_Partner_Platform/0050_Data_Services/0500_QuickBooks_Windows/0100_Calling_Data_Services/0015_Retrieving_Objects
You need to keep track of data changes on your side.
The batch submission is not faster, its just easier for you to write the code.
The IPP SDK can queue the API calls for your and aggregate the responses.
regards,
Jarred
How do I track or get notified whenever a record is inserted or updated in a DB? I would like to notify an external application of the changes in near real time whenever such changes in DB occur. Are there DBMS independent and application programming language independent ways of doing this? If not, then is it possible with MS Access and MS SQL Server in particular? I'm looking to avoid continuous polling of DB of course.
With SQL Server it is possible to load a DLL within SQL Server itself and call methods from this with extended stored procedures. The DLL could then notify other applications - usually via a TCP socket.
I think the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server allows you to raise events in your .NET code based on server conditions and events. I haven't tried it, and I haven't heard of any 'DBMS independent' way of doing this (without polling DB every X milliseconds).
With MS-Access, I keep track of record changes or record additions with fields in the main table that store the user name and date when the record is created or updated.
You need to use a windows API to record the user name, usually run when switchboard form is opened.
I am digging to find a away to track specific changes. My data base is used for project management. I would like to keep track of what specifically was changed, not just who and when that I have now.
I think this meets the requirements of the original question. I can later add the windows API that reads the name of the user.
Private Sub Form_BeforeInsert(Cancel As Integer)
Me!UserCreated = UCase(CurrentUser())
Me!DateCreated = Now()
End Sub
Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer)
Me!DateModified = Now()
Me!UserModified = UCase(CurrentUser())
End Sub
-- Mike
To do this with SQL Server, you use the Notification Service - write a dll that subscribes to notifications from the DB for data updates which you can process in some way.
However, MS has said that they are removing this from SQL Server 2008.
Oracle has something similar (though they tend to leave their technology in place), but I've not seen anything that is database-neutral.