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- Customer Actions
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- Customer Fields Actions
- Get Many by External ID
- Get Many Customer Objects (By Status)
- Get Many Customer Objects (By Status List)
- Get Available Account IDs
- Get Available Payment Methods
- Get Available Workflows
- Get Account
- Get Payment Information
- Get Payment Method Description
- Get Created By Resource ID
- Get Project Manager ID
- Get Source of Contact
- Get Date of Initial Contact
- Get Dossier
- Update Payment Information
- Update Project Manager ID
- Update Source of Contact
- Update Date of Initial Contact
- Update Dossier
- Resource Fields Actions
- Order Fields Actions
- Get Creation Date
- Get Delivery Comment
- Get External ID
- Get Language Combination
- Get Links
- Get Master Project ID
- Get Order Closing Date
- Get Order Confirmations
- Get Order Date
- Get Order Number for View
- Get Project Category
- Get Project Status
- Get Request ID
- Get Subject
- Create Project Linking
- Get List of Templates
- Set Request ID
- Set Creation Date
- Set EN15038 Requested
- Set External ID
- Set Master Project ID
- Set Project Category
- Item Fields Actions
- Job Fields Actions
- Update Job Status
- Run Automatic Job
- Get Comment
- Update Comment
- Get Description
- Update Description
- Get Due Date
- Update Due Date
- Get Delivery Date
- Get Creation Date
- Get Job Number
- Get Currency
- Get Resource ID
- Update Contact Person ID
- Get Contact Person ID
- Get Delivery Note
- Update Delivery Note
- Get Payable ID
- Update CAT Report
- Customer Contact Actions
Customer Contact → Get by External ID
AI-generatedSummary
Seek a Customer Contact by its ExternalID
Inputs
- ExternalID (required) — External identifier for the customer contact; passed to the seekByExternalID operation.
Output shape
a single Customer Contact record
Returns the matching contact data; missing ID yields an error unless continueOnFail is enabled.
Examples
Example 1: Fetch a contact using a known external identifier
ExternalID = CUST-00123
Example 2: Attempt lookup with an empty ID
ExternalID = (empty) – will likely fail or return error