Departments are only associated with non-individual contacts.
The method available for Departments is exposed under '/contacts/{contactid}/departments'
Departments by ContactID Fetch
Method Type: GET
returns a list of departments for a specific non-individual contact record
'/contacts/{contactid}/departments'
Departments By ContactID Fetch
The URI '/contacts/{contactid}/notes', when coupled with Method Type 'GET', returns a List of Departments associated with a specific Contact Record. A good Business Contact record to test with is ABC Company. The URI is as follows.
https://api2.redtailtechnology.com/crm/v1/rest/contacts/{ContactID}/departments
https://api2.redtailtechnology.com/crm/v1/rest/contacts/1625436/departments
Below is a sample request in C# using our URI, sample credentials, and the method type. The content type "text/json" work equally well.
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("https://api2.redtailtechnology.com/crm/v1/rest/contacts/1625436/departments");
req.Headers[System.Net.HttpRequestHeader.Authorization] = "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes("6C135EDF-C37C-4039-AEF3-5DFC079F9E6A:Statementone:sonedemo"));
req.Method = "GET";
req.ContentType = "text/xml";
//and here's the response stream.
HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
The following is a condensed XML response. The XML response will include up to 50 notes per page and provide a total count of the related note records.
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