Company name changing on all contacts

sloftin at October 31st, 2017 14:36 — #1

When we create a contact that has the same company_name as existing contacts, then do an update for that contact that includes a different company_name, it changes the company_name for all contacts in the system that had the previous value.

dem at November 1st, 2017 03:13 — #2

Scott,
short answer is company_name will be changed for all contacts within this company in one case, when company_id also present in request and not changed and new company_name is unique.

Full answer with all cases for company change in contact update:

Full update (without partial param)

company_name is only provided
- with multiple contacts within company, contact will be moved to other company (split)
- if last in company, contact will be moved to other existing company and error will be raised if company has some details and cannot be removed
- if last in company, company will be renamed if name is unique
company_id is only provided
- with multiple contacts in company contact will be moved to other company
- when last in company, contact will be moved to other company and error will be raised if company has some details and cannot be removed
- Error will be raised if invalid ID will be provided
Both company_id and company_name are present
- when company_name is only changed, contact will be moved to other company if company with given name exists
- when company_name is only changed, company will be renamed if name is unique
- will raise error if invalid ID will be provided
- when last contact in company, move will be allowed only if company does not contain any data
- when both values are different, contact will be moved to new company and the other company will be renamed; error will be raised when new name is not unique
- if any of those will be set to null, contact will be removed from company
neither company_id nor company_name are present
- when multiple contacts in company, contact will be removed from company
- will remove company details only if it is not containing any data
- company cannot be removed from contact which does not have lastname

Partial update (with partial=1)

company_name is only provided - the same behaviour as in case of full update
company_id is only provided
- contact will be moved into new company
- if last contact in company, error will be raised if company contains some data
- error will be raised if invalid ID will be provided (i.e. company does not exists)
both company_name annd company_id are present - the same behaviour as in case of full update
neither company_id nor company_name are present
- no action on company data will be taken

I hope this answer helps.

Update : corrected rules for case company_name is only provided.

Kind regards,
Mikhail