Mark an appointment as Scheduled in CRM 2011 - dynamics-crm-2011

Question

I have a Silverlight application that creates an appointment but since it's not marked as "Scheduled" it will not show up in the Calendar. I am using the SOAP service for this, and here is some sample code that fires on a button click that creates an appointment but it does not show up in the Calendar:
TestCommand = new RelayCommand(() =>
{
var soapCtx = ServiceHelper.GetSingletonSoapService();
var activityId = Guid.NewGuid();
var appt = new Entity()
{
Id = activityId,
LogicalName = "appointment"
};
appt["activityid"] = activityId;
appt["scheduledstart"] = DateTime.Now.Date;
appt["scheduledend"] = DateTime.Now.Date.AddHours(1);
appt["description"] = "Test 1 2 3";
appt["subject"] = "Test Command Button Appointment";
appt["location"] = "Location 1 2 3";
soapCtx.BeginCreate(appt, ar =>
{
var response = soapCtx.EndCreate(ar);
var bookRequest = new OrganizationRequest();
bookRequest.RequestName = "Book";
bookRequest["Target"] = appt;
soapCtx.BeginExecute(bookRequest,
new AsyncCallback(OnBookRequestedCompleted), soapCtx);
}, null);
});
void OnBookRequestedCompleted(IAsyncResult ar)
{
var soapCtx = (IOrganizationService)ar.AsyncState;
var response = soapCtx.EndExecute(ar);
}
I keep getting "NotFound" exception in the OnBookRequestedCompleted method. Is there a different way of doing this?

Answer 1

Use Fiddler to debug your HTTP request/response and this will give you details about the 'Not Found' exception.

Answer 2

You should not be setting the ActivityId field it is returned by the BookRequest. if BookResponse.ValidationResult.ValidationSuccess == true, apptId = BookResponse.ValidationResult.ActivityId
You need to call SetStateRequest with the id returned by the BookRequest to set the state to Scheduled
For example:
SetStateRequest state = new SetStateRequest();
state.State = new OptionSetValue(3); // Scheduled
state.Status = new OptionSetValue(5); // Busy
state.EntityMoniker = new EntityReference("appointment", apptId);
SetStateResponse stateSet = (SetStateResponse)this.orgService.Execute(state);