# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Client/Request
  • ABGroupUpdate
    • abId
    • groups
      • Group
        • groupInfo
• Server/Response
  • ABGroupUpdateResponse
• Examples
  • Client/Request
  • Server/Response

# Introduction

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

Changes information about a contact group.

# Client/Request

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

# ABGroupUpdate

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.

# groups

This element only contains <Group> elements

# Group

This element contains three children:

• <groupId>: The GUID of the group to modify.
• <groupInfo>: Explained below.
• <propertiesChanged>: A space delimited list of changes made in <groupInfo>:
  • GroupName

# groupInfo

This element contains only one child:

• <name>: The new name of the group.

# Server/Response

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

# ABGroupUpdateResponse

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/ABGroupUpdate
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1276

<?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>GroupSave</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>
                <ABGroupUpdate
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                >
                        <abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
                        <groups>
                                <Group>
                                        <groupId>f60efbe7-94af-4b16-b926-e4e10878d329</groupId>
                                        <groupInfo>
                                            <name>Other People</name>
                                        </groupInfo>
                                        <propertiesChanged>GroupName </propertiesChanged>
                                </Group>
                        </groups>
                </ABGroupUpdate>
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

# Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 772; charset=utf-8

<?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;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo0ODowOS44MDNa</CacheKey>
                        <CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
                        <PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
                        <SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
                </ServiceHeader>
        </soap:Header>
        <soap:Body>
                <ABGroupUpdateResponse
                        xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
                />
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>