Snippet: OEOrderDetail.Fields.FieldByName["PROCESSCMD"].PutWithoutVerification("1");

with the brackets around "PROCESSCMD" I get squiggles under the part up to the period

CS0021 Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'method group'

With parentheses around "PROCESSCMD" I get squiggles under the part after the period 

'ViewField' does not contain a definition for 'PutWithoutVerification' and no extension method 'PutWithoutVerification' accepting a first argument of type 'ViewField' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

public static AccpacView OEOrderDetail;  

.Fields, not OEOrderDetailfields

prior lines from my actual code:

private ACCPAC.Advantage.View arCus;

...

arCus = mDBLinkCmpRW.OpenView("AR0024");

arCusOpt = mDBLinkCmpRW.OpenView("AR0400");
arCus.Compose(new ACCPAC.Advantage.View[] { arCusOpt });
arCusOpt.Compose (new ACCPAC.Advantage.View[] { arCus });

...

arCus.RecordCreate(ViewRecordCreate.DelayKey);

...

arCus.Fields.FieldByName["PROCESSCMD"].PutWithoutVerification("1");

Use the AccpacCOMAPI library, not the XAPI library.

Jay,

Thanks!  It works using COM instead Accpac Advantage.

Is there a way to get it to autopopulate the default optional fields but still record specific optional field values?

If PROCESSCMD is after setting the optional fields it overwrites them, and if it is before then calling arCusOpt.Insert() or Update() throws an error.  I suppose I could skip the optional fields on the insert routine and then pass the json file over to an update routine, but that feels rather wasteful.

Phil

I handle all my optionals like this:

static bool AddOrderOpt(string sOptfield, string sValue)
{
try
{
// Assumes that ArCustomerOpt as been composed
OEOrderOptional.Fields.FieldByName["optfield"].PutWithoutVerification(sOptfield);
if (OEOrderOptional.Read())
{
OEOrderOptional.Fields.FieldByName["value"].PutWithoutVerification(sValue);
OEOrderOptional.Update();
}
else
{
OEOrderOptional.RecordGenerate(false);
OEOrderOptional.Fields.FieldByName["OPTFIELD"].PutWithoutVerification(sOptfield);
OEOrderOptional.Fields.FieldByName["value"].PutWithoutVerification(sValue);
OEOrderOptional.Insert();
}
}
catch
{
HandleError("AddCustomerOpt", "");
return false;
}
return true;
}