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Steve Tibbett (Snapclarity Inc.) asked in #Integration
Mar 10, 2020, 8:14 PM

Associate new PersonAccount with existing contact

I have a few thousand contacts and we're switching to Person Accounts since we're essentially a B2C company.

I'm writing a migration script using the API. I have a particular Contact, and I want to create a new PersonAccount associated with that contact.

I've tried just creating the account with the PersonAccountId value set to the contact's Id, but that gives me an error.

 

conn.sobject("Account").create({
      FirstName: contact.FirstName,
      LastName: contact.LastName,
      PersonAccountId: contact.Id
    });

That gets me 

INVALID_FIELD_FOR_INSERT_UPDATE: Unable to create/update fields: PersonContactId

I can see the PersonContactId field in the Account when I query it, but I guess it's read only.

What's the proper way to do this?

Thanks

 -- Steve

 
1 answer
  1. Steve Tibbett (Snapclarity Inc.)
    Mar 10, 2020, 8:19 PM

    Sorry, the code block should be:

    conn.sobject("Account").create({ 
      FirstName: contact.FirstName, 
      LastName: contact.LastName, 
      PersonContactId: contact.Id 
    });
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