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Associating Contacts to Accounts and Opportunities Resources

You can use the REST API to associate existing contacts resources to existing Accounts and Opportunities resources.

The following details are for a request to associate an existing child Contacts resource (including the contact Id and role), Account Contacts, to an existing Accounts resource on the Oracle CRM On Demand Server:

• URL: https://<host>/OnDemand/user/Rest/028/Accounts/1QA2-22789P/child/AccountContactRoles/1QA2-23MIPS
• HTTP Method: PATCH
• Content-Type: application/vnd.oracle.adf.resource+json
• Request body:

{
  "AccountContactRoles":[{
    "ContactId":"1QA2-2278B3",
    "Role":"Approver"
  }
 ]
}

The following are the details for the response to a successful request and returns the role and Contact Id from the original request:

• HTTP Code: 200
• Content-Type: application/vnd.oracle.adf.resource+json
• Response body:

{
   "AccountContactRoles":[{
     "Role":"Approver",
     "ContactId":"1QA2-2278B3",
   "links":{
     "self":{
       "rel":"self",
       "href":"/OnDemand/user/Rest/028/Accounts/1QA2-22789P/child/AccountContactRoles/1QA2-23MIPS"},
     "canonical":{
        "rel":"canonical",
        "href":"/OnDemand/user/Rest/028/Accounts/1QA2-22789P/child/AccountContactRoles/1QA2-23MIPS"},
     "parent":{
        "rel":"parent",
         "href":"/OnDemand/user/Rest/028/Accounts/1QA2-22789P"}
     }
   }
 ]
}