# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Client/Request
  • ABContactUpdate
    • abId
    • contacts
      • Contact
        • contactId
        • contactInfo
        • propertiesChanged
• Server/Response
  • ABContactUpdateResponse
• Examples
  • Client/Request
  • Server/Response

# Introduction

ABContactUpdate is one of the SOAP actions the Address Book Service provides.

Modifies information about a contact from the Forward List (FL). For modifying a contact's information from any other list, see the Contact Sharing Service.

# Client/Request

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

# ABContactUpdate

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# abId

This element contains your Address Book Service GUID.

# contacts

This element contains one or multiple <Contact> elements.

# Contact

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# contactId

This element only contains the GUID of the contact you would like to modify.

# contactInfo

For more information about this element, read the <contactInfo> article.

The most relevant children are:

• <displayName>: The new display name for this contact.
• <isMessengerUser>: If this is set to false, this user is to be treated as a e-mail contact instead of an Instant Messaging Contact.

# propertiesChanged

This element only contains the space delimited list of updated items in <contactInfo>. The valid values are the following:

• DisplayName
• IsMessengerUser
• ContactFirstName
• ContactLastName
• Comment
• MiddleName
• ContactPrimaryEmailType
• ContactEmail
• ContactLocation
• ContactPhone
• ContactWebSite
• Annotation

# Server/Response

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

# ABContactUpdateResponse

This empty element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# Examples

# Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABContactUpdate
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1378

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
        xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
        <soap:Header>
                <ABApplicationHeader
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                >
                        <ApplicationID>996CDE1E-AA53-4477-B943-2BE802EA6166</ApplicationID>
                        <IsMigration>false</IsMigration>
                        <PartnerScenario>Timer</PartnerScenario>
                </ABApplicationHeader>
                <ABAuthHeader
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                >
                        <ManagedGroupRequest>false</ManagedGroupRequest>
                        <TicketToken>t=ticket&amp;p=profile</TicketToken>
                </ABAuthHeader>
        </soap:Header>
        <soap:Body>
                <ABContactUpdate
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                >
                        <abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
                        <contacts>
                                <Contact
                                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                                >
                                        <contactId>c1f9a363-4ee9-4a33-a434-b056a4c55b98</contactId>
                                        <contactInfo>
                                                <displayName>another user</displayName>
                                        </contactInfo>
                                        <propertiesChanged>DisplayName <propertiesChanged>
                                </Contact>
                        </contacts>
                </ABContactUpdate>
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

# Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 774

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
        xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>
        <soap:Header>
                <ServiceHeader
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                >
                        <Version>12.01.1111.0000</Version>
                        <CacheKey>12r1;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo0Nzo1OS4zMDZa</CacheKey>
                        <CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
                        <PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
                        <SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
                </ServiceHeader>
        </soap:Header>
        <soap:Body>
                <ABContactUpdateResponse
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                />
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>