Capture Lead - Already in System?

[ategenkamp]

I'm using this on a webform to capture a lead and it works great to capture a lead, but if the lead is already in the system, how do I update that lead? I'd like to add a comment or just append to the description of the lead in Espo if they're already in the system but right now it just doesn't do anything.

require_once(__DIR__.'/EspoApiClient.php');
$client = new EspoApiClient($url);
$formData = [
'salutationName' => $data['user_salutation'],
'firstName' => $data['user_first'],
'lastName' => $data['user_last'],
'accountName' => $data['user_organization'],
'title' => $data['user_title'],
//'phoneNumber' => $data['user_phone'],
'emailAddress' => $data['user_email'],
'description' => '(ID#'.$data['geoid'].')',
];
$client->request('POST', 'LeadCapture/' . $apiKey, $formData);

[item]

Hi,

try to add :
'duplicateCheck' => true

maybe that's do what you search
duplicateCheck search on emailAddress or phoneNumber

[rabii]

Hi,

As item said you can set updateDuplicateCheck to true on recordDefs but i am not sure if that would work with API. read this https://docs.espocrm.com/development...d-while-update

Otherwise instead of making the post request to the CRM you could firstly make a get request to check if a record exist in the database, if it exists then you can make a request to update the record returned (lead). check out these links below has all info you need to make it work:

https://docs.espocrm.com/development...rams/#examples
https://docs.espocrm.com/development...rud-operations

[item]

Hello rabii,
i respond with my knowledge..
i have just see this : https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/b...pture.php#L702

Maybe

[rabii]

Interesting, this might solve his problem.
thanks for sharing