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The_Doc
Ultimate Cover User
3 years ago
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API Question - POST Item

Hi Folks   Thought I might get lucky with an API knowledgeable user able to answer this question quickly.   I am an API developer and GET and POST many things via the API, however, I have never P...
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    Mike_James
    3 years ago

    Hi The_Doc , updating existing items is done via a PUT operation. According to https://developer.myob.com/api/myob-business-api/v2/inventory/item/, "Items shown with [tick] are required when posting or puting data".

     

    It would pay to expand the page display to show all the element notes. (Click the link at the end - "To view the descriptions for the elements you can either hover (over) any attribute to reveal details or click here to show all details")

     

    You'll definitely need to include the row version, which should be obtained immediately prior to the PUT operation. I'm not sure that all the other UIDs (ticked) are required, but a trial (using Postman?) should confirm that.

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The_Doc
Ultimate Cover User
3 years ago

Hi Mike_James 

 

No problem - always happy to correct or be corrected - interestingly MYOB has never quite made that clear.

 

At least I retain some of my hair having pulled patches out in the last month and wasted enormous time hoping to solve the problem and time slips away.

 

You may be interested in why I am doing it - well, firstly I opened my developer yappa to a client who asked me if something was possible in his wishlist - and I said yep!!!

 

A new webcart selling from an live MYOB perpetual inventory system - pricing is based on purchase standard cost - and wanting to beat the inevitable supplier general price rise on all their supplied products dribbling through as new orders reflect the price change - through the MYOB to Web integrator I have built being able to select a supplier - and all products supplied and applying a increase factor to the Standard purchase prices as a bulk update - loading them into the web - then flushing these new Std Prices back to the parent MYOB file and products they apply to ( because if we don't the old price coming through wipes out the new Std price).

 

I suppose we could disallow an update coming from MYOB overwriting if less than the new one - hmm might work - would save agony of writing inventory back to MYOB.

 

Regards The Doc

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