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CRMContact.GrantAccess Method

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The GrantAccess method grants a user or team access to the specified contact. This method also applies to all child objects of the contact. For all child objects, if the caller does not have share privileges for those object types or share rights to the objects, the child objects are not shared. As a result, the owner of the object or a user who shares the object with share rights automatically has share rights to all child objects of the contact. In this case, only the lack of privileges for a particular object type prevents the child objects from being shared.

Syntax

[Visual Basic .NET]
Public Sub GrantAccess(
  ByVal Caller As CUserAuth,
  ByVal ContactId As String,
  ByVal Rights As UInt32,
  ByVal Grantee As CSecurityPrincipal
)
[C#]
public void GrantAccess(
  CUserAuth  Caller,
  string  ContactId,
  uint  Rights,
  CSecurityPrincipal  Grantee
);
[C++]
public: void GrantAccess(
  CUserAuth*  Caller,
  String*  ContactId,
  unsigned long  Rights,
  CSecurityPrincipal*  Grantee
);

Parameters

Caller

Specifies the identity of the caller. The caller must have the prvShareContact privilege to perform this action. See CUserAuth.

ContactId

Specifies the ID of the contact.

Rights

Specifies the set of rights to be granted. See ACCESSRIGHTS.

Grantee

Specifies the team or user that is to be granted access to the contact. See CSecurityPrincipal.

Return Value

No return value.

Remarks

If there is an error, SOAP throws an exception and the error message is reported in System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException.Detail.OuterXml.

All IDs passed to the platform are GUIDs wrapped in braces. For example: {6522D89A-A752-4455-A2B0-51494C6957C3}

Example

[C#]
// strServer should be set with the name of the platform Web server
string strServer = "myservername";

// virtualDirectory should be set with the name of the Microsoft CRM
// virtual directory on the platform Web server
string virtualDirectory = "mscrmservices";
string strDir = "https://" + strServer + "/" + virtualDirectory + "/";

// BizUser proxy object
Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.BizUser bizUser = new Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.BizUser ();
bizUser.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
bizUser.Url = strDir + "BizUser.srf";

// CRMContact proxy object
Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CRMContact contact = new Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CRMContact ();
contact.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
contact.Url = strDir + "CRMContact.srf";

string strErrorMsg;
string strContactId = "{ECF99EF1-3858-4E06-ABD9-EBFE526BF9FF}";
string strUserId = "{ECF99EF1-3858-4E06-ABD9-EBFE526BF9FF}";

try
{
   Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CUserAuth userAuth = bizUser.WhoAmI();

   // Create a new security principal
   Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CSecurityPrincipal securityPrincipal = new Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CSecurityPrincipal();
   securityPrincipal.Id = strUserId;
   securityPrincipal.Type = Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.SecurityPrincipalType.sptUser;

   uint rights = Microsoft.CRM.Flags.AccessRights.CRM_ACCESS_READ;

   // Share the contact with the user
   contact.GrantAccess(userAuth, strContactId, rights, securityPrincipal);
}
catch (System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException err)
{
   // Process the platform error here
   strErrorMsg = ("ErrorMessage: " + err.Message + " " + err.Detail.OuterXml + " Source: " + err.Source );
}
catch (Exception err)
{
   // Process other errors here
   strErrorMsg = ("ErrorMessage: " + err.Message );
}

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.CRM.Proxy

Assembly: microsoft.crm.proxy.dll

See Also

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