StartAsyncMailMerge

The StartAsyncMailMerge method performs a mail merge asynchronously.

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Usage

Privileges. This method requires Create privileges.

Parameters.

The parameters for the StartAsyncMailMerge method are described in the following table.

Parameter

Data Type

Value

sessionToken

String

Valid sessionToken returned by the general.CreateUserSession method

contentId

Integer

Internal ID of a content record

mailMergeTemplateId

Integer

Internal ID of a Mail Merge Template record

Output. This method returns an integer. This integer value is used to identify this particular execution of the Mail Merge process. If there is a failure, the API issues an exception.

Samples

Sample C# Code

int exportId = record.StartAsyncMailMerge(sSessionToken, 17, 25);

Sample Request

The following is a sample SOAP 1.1 request and response. The placeholders shown would be replaced with actual values. SOAP 1.2 also is supported.

POST /Archer/ws/record.asmx HTTP/1.1

Host: localhost

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: length

SOAPAction: "http://archer-tech.com/webservices/StartAsyncMailMerge"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

    <soap:Body>

      <StartAsyncMailMerge xmlns="http://archer-tech.com/webservices/">

        <sessionToken>string</sessionToken>

        <contentId>int</contentId>

        <mailMergeTemplateId>int</mailMergeTemplateId>

      </StartAsyncMailMerge>

    </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

    <soap:Body>

      <StartAsyncMailMergeResponse xmlns="http://archer-tech.com/webservices/">

        <StartAsyncMailMergeResult>int</StartAsyncMailMergeResult>

      </StartAsyncMailMergeResponse>

    </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>