Did you manage to solve the check number issue? I too now need to populate that field and it does not seem like it is doing so.

UPDATE: I realised that you need to have the payment type set to cheque (or check depending where you are in the world!). It will then work.

David

Thanks for your suggestions. I will definitely give it a go. One workaround would be to copy an existing batch and change the values. The problem is that no two batches are alike. The number of gifts in a batch vary so while I could copy a previous batch, or even set up a batch template in the GUI in order to copy that batch over, I would have to ensure that there were a large number of gifts present to cover the number that I may require in a later batch. I would have to loop through it and then change the values from the template batch to the new batch. Of course this could work but it is really long winded workaround which really should not be necessary.

Heather, I have, unfortunately, not tried to write the check number to a batch. It does sound like a similar case. Are you able to populate it through the GUI?

David

When I try to populate GIFT_fld_Check_Number it doesn’t seem to actually populate (no errors, it just never shows up in RE despite definitely being populated in my debug checks). When I try to populate GIFT_fld_Description, it throws what to me appears to be an entirely unrelated error about a column that I’m not attempting to access. BATCHAPI_fld_DESCRIPTION, on the other hand, works beautifully.

Have you tried using these fields at all? Any thoughts? I wish there were more documentation on this stuff.

Thanks much

-Heather

Private Sub CreateBackupBatch(ByVal sSrcBatchNbr As String)
Dim oSrcBatch As CBatchAPI = New CBatchAPI
Dim oBkpBatch As CBatchAPI = New CBatchAPI
Dim oBkpTempRecords As CTempRecords

‘ Create a new, empty batch based on the design of an existing batch
CreateBatchFromTemplate(sSrcBatchNbr, sSrcBatchNbr & ” BKP”)

oSrcBatch.Init(coSC)
Try
oSrcBatch.LoadByNumber(sSrcBatchNbr)
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try

oBkpBatch.Init(coSC)
Try
oBkpBatch.LoadByNumber(sSrcBatchNbr & ” BKP”)
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try
oBkpTempRecords = oBkpBatch.TempRecords

oBkpBatch.Fields(EBatchAPIFields.BATCHAPI_fld_BATCH_NUMER) &= ” ” & Now.ToString
oBkpBatch.Save()

Dim oSrcBatchFields As CBatchFields = oSrcBatch.BatchFields

‘ Copy all batch rows except the template row from source to target
For Each oSrcTempRec As CTempRecord In oSrcBatch.TempRecords
If oSrcTempRec.Fields(oSrcBatchFields.Count + 2) “0″ Then
‘ BD (below) is an import alias for Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BatchData,
‘ all other Batch API classes are referenced from Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BBREAPI
Dim oBkpTempRec As BD.CTempRecord = oBkpTempRecords.Add()
oBkpTempRec.DataObject = oSrcTempRec.DataObject
For Each oSrcBatchField As CBatchField In oSrcBatchFields
Dim i As Integer = oSrcBatchField.Fields(EBatchFieldFields.BatchField_fld_Sequence)
If oBkpTempRec.Fields(i) oSrcTempRec.Fields(i) Then
oBkpTempRec.Fields(i) = oSrcTempRec.Fields(i)
End If
Next
End If
oBkpTempRecords.Save()
Next

oBkpBatch.Save()

oBkpTempRecords = Nothing

oSrcBatch.CloseDown()
FinalReleaseComObject(oSrcBatch)

oBkpBatch.CloseDown()
FinalReleaseComObject(oBkpBatch)
End Sub