How To Get Employees From Quickbooks Online Using C#

In this article, we will learn how to get employees from Quickbooks online in .NET MVC web application using SDK.

Before using any Quickbooks online API we need access token, if you don’t know how to get access token then you can find it here.

• First, we have to create a ServiceContext with Auth tokens and realmId.
• For that, we need access token and realmId
• For getting employees, we have to define a QueryService object.
• QueryService object needs a ServiceContext object as parameter.
• So we have to create a Quickbooks QueryService using ServiceContext.
• Here we are getting all employees from Quickbooks online, code is as below.

public ActionResult GetAllEmployee()
{
  List<Employee> EmployeeList = new List<Employee>();
  try
  {
    OAuth2RequestValidator oauthValidator = new OAuth2RequestValidator(Access_token);
    // Create a ServiceContext with Auth tokens and realmId
    ServiceContext serviceContext = new ServiceContext(RealmId, IntuitServicesType.QBO, oauthValidator);
    serviceContext.IppConfiguration.MinorVersion.Qbo = "23";
    serviceContext.IppConfiguration.BaseUrl.Qbo = QboBaseUrl;

    // Create a QuickBooks QueryService using ServiceContext
    QueryService<Employee> querySvc = new QueryService<Employee>(serviceContext);
    EmployeeList = querySvc.ExecuteIdsQuery("SELECT * FROM Employee").ToList();

    return View(EmployeeList);
  }
  catch (IdsException ex)
  {
    return View(EmployeeList);
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    return View(EmployeeList);
  }
}

• We will get all the employee list in the EmployeeList object.
• View Code is as below,

@model List<Intuit.Ipp.Data.Employee>

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "GetAllEmployee";
}

<h2>Quickbooks online Employee List</h2>

<div>
    <table class="table table-bordered">
        <tr>
            <th>QBO ID</th>
            <th>Display Name</th>
            <th>Given Name</th>
            <th>Family Name</th>
            <th>Email</th>
            <th>Primary Phone</th>
        </tr>

        @foreach (var Emp in Model)
        {
            <tr>
                <td>@Emp.Id</td>
                <td>@Emp.DisplayName</td>
                <td>@Emp.GivenName</td>
                <td>@Emp.FamilyName</td>
                @if (Emp.PrimaryEmailAddr != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Emp.PrimaryEmailAddr.Address))
                {
                    <td>@Emp.PrimaryEmailAddr.Address</td>
                }
                else
                {
                    <td></td>
                }

                @if (Emp.PrimaryPhone != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Emp.PrimaryPhone.FreeFormNumber))
                {
                    <td>@Emp.PrimaryPhone.FreeFormNumber</td>
                }
                else
                {
                    <td></td>
                }

            </tr>
        }

    </table>
</div>

• We can also write a query according to our requirements, as like below

string EXISTING_EMPLOYEE_QUERYBYID = string.Format("select * from Employee where DisplayName = '{0}'", "Tabish Employee");
Employee objEmployeeFound = queryService.ExecuteIdsQuery(EXISTING_EMPLOYEE_QUERYBYID).FirstOrDefault<Employee>();

• it will return an employee by DisplayName.
• We will get an employee whose DisplayName=”Tabish Employee” in the objEmployeeFound object.

So that’s how we can get employees or query employees from Quickbooks online.

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