Creating Customer Location - acumatica

Question

My requirement is to create a customer location part of downloading order from 3rd party shopping cart.
I have tried this below code and It is not saving any location and also not raising any error.
private static void CreateCustomerLocation(Customer cust, string locationcode, OrderDTO ord, OrderDownloadActivityEntry grp)
{
try
{
LocationMaint graph = CustomerLocationMaint.CreateInstance<CustomerLocationMaint>();
SelectedLocation loc = new SelectedLocation();
loc.BAccountID = cust.BAccountID;
loc.LocationCD = locationcode;
loc.Descr = ord.CustomerLocationName;
loc.IsContactSameAsMain = false;
loc.IsAddressSameAsMain = false;
graph.Location.Insert(loc);
Contact contact = new Contact();
contact.Attention = ord.OrderCustomerContactName;
contact.Phone1 = ord.OrderCustomerContactPhone;
contact.DisplayName = ord.CustomerLocationName;
contact.LastName = ord.OrderCustomerContactName;
contact = graph.Contact.Update(contact);
Address address = new Address();
address.AddressLine1 = ord.OrderShippingLocationAddress1;
address.AddressLine2 = ord.OrderShippingLocationAddress2;
address.City = ord.OrderShippingLocationCity;
address.State = ord.OrderShippingLocationState;
address.PostalCode = ord.OrderShippingLocationZip;
address.CountryID = "US";
contact = graph.Contact.Update(contact);
address = graph.Address.Update(address);
loc.DefAddressID = address.AddressID;
loc.DefContactID = contact.ContactID;
graph.Location.Update(loc);
graph.Save.Press();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
grp.AddLogData(SessionID, "Create Location", "Create Location falied", null, null, e.StackTrace);
}
}
I am not able to figure out where i am making mistake. any suggestion for this issue?
Update
I have tried the following code and I am getting the following error
CARAccountLocationID' cannot be empty.
private static void CreateCustomerLocation(Customer cust, string locationcode, OrderDTO ord, OrderDownloadActivityEntry grp)
{
try
{
LocationMaint graph = PXGraph.CreateInstance<CustomerLocationMaint>();
graph.BusinessAccount.Current = PXSelect<BAccount, Where<BAccount.bAccountID, Equal<Required<BAccount.bAccountID>>>>.Select(graph, cust.BAccountID);
var newLocation = (Location)graph.Location.Cache.CreateInstance();
var locType = LocTypeList.CustomerLoc;
newLocation.LocType = locType;
graph.Location.Insert(newLocation);
var loc = (Location)graph.Location.Cache.CreateCopy(graph.Location.Current);
Contact contact = graph.Contact.Cache.CreateCopy(graph.Contact.Current) as Contact;
contact.Attention = ord.OrderCustomerContactName;
contact.Phone1 = ord.OrderCustomerContactPhone;
contact.DisplayName = ord.CustomerLocationName;
contact.LastName = ord.OrderCustomerContactName;
contact = graph.Contact.Update(contact);
Address address = graph.Address.Cache.CreateCopy(graph.Address.Current) as Address;
address.AddressLine1 = ord.OrderShippingLocationAddress1;
address.AddressLine2 = ord.OrderShippingLocationAddress2;
address.City = ord.OrderShippingLocationCity;
address.State = ord.OrderShippingLocationState;
address.PostalCode = ord.OrderShippingLocationZip;
address.CountryID = "US";
contact = graph.Contact.Update(contact);
address = graph.Address.Update(address);
contact.DefAddressID = address.AddressID;
loc.IsAddressSameAsMain = false;
loc.IsContactSameAsMain = false;
loc.IsAPAccountSameAsMain = true;
loc.IsAPPaymentInfoSameAsMain = true;
loc.IsARAccountSameAsMain = true;
loc.LocationCD = locationcode;
loc.Descr = ord.CustomerLocationName;
loc = graph.Location.Update(loc);
loc.BAccountID = cust.BAccountID;
graph.Location.Cache.RaiseFieldUpdated<Location.isARAccountSameAsMain>(loc, null);
if (loc.CARAccountLocationID == null)
loc.CARAccountLocationID = cust.DefLocationID;
graph.Location.Update(loc);
graph.Save.Press();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
grp.AddLogData(SessionID, "Create Location", "Create Location falied", null, null, e.StackTrace);
}
}

Answer 1

CARAccountLocationID is the LocationID of the MAIN location for a given BAccount/Customer. It is used by the business logic when setting GLAccounts.SameAsDefaultLocationS on screen AR303020.
I've seen the "'CARAccountLocationID' cannot be empty." error when creating a location without first setting the Customer.
The resolution was to first set the customer, then set SameAsDefaultLocationS, then set the rest of the fields.
In the screen API order of operations matters.
In your case you might need to directly set loc.CARAccountLocationID to the LocationID of the customer's MAIN location.