Create a new Business Unit Via API

Question

I am trying to create a new Business unit via API. I am only finding create new user or update an existing account. Can someone send me a sample code to create a new business unit using Account ID?

I got it to work its as i missed bu.ParentIDSpecified = true;.

Here is the sample code to create a business unit to an existing account.

BusinessUnit bu = new BusinessUnit();
bu.AccountType = AccountTypeEnum.BUSINESS_UNIT;      
bu.Name = "TestAPI";
bu.Email = "Test@businessunit.com";
bu.FromName = "Test BU";
bu.ParentID = // my account id
//This tells that create user in subaccount
ClientID clientID = new ClientID();            
clientID.ID = XXXX;
clientID.IDSpecified = true;
bu.Client = clientID;

String requestId = null;
String overAllStatus = null;
CreateResult[] results = client.Create(new CreateOptions(), new APIObject[] { bu }, out requestId, out overAllStatus);

Answer 1

Below is the SOAP Envelope for creating a Business Unit -

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing" xmlns:u="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
<s:Header>
  <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">Create</a:Action>
  <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:5dfca442-f1a0-4f7c-9419-8ace5658d2a3</a:MessageID>
  <a:ReplyTo>
     <a:Address>http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous</a:Address>
  </a:ReplyTo>
  <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">https://webservice.s6.exacttarget.com/Service.asmx</a:To>
  <o:Security s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns:o="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">
     <o:UsernameToken u:Id="uuid-88b91f91-bac2-489b-90fb-37e7b256e20c-1">
        <o:Username>xxx</o:Username>
        <o:Password>xxx</o:Password>
     </o:UsernameToken>
  </o:Security>
</s:Header>
<s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <CreateRequest xmlns="http://exacttarget.com/wsdl/partnerAPI">
     <Options>

     </Options>
     <Objects xsi:type="BusinessUnit">
        <PartnerKey xsi:nil="true"/>
        <ObjectID xsi:nil="true"/>
        <AccountType>BUSINESS_UNIT</AccountType>
        <ParentID>{{TopLevelBU}}</ParentID>
        <OrgID>{{TopLevelBU}}</OrgID>
        <Name>Maneesh Test BU1</Name>
        <Email>xxx@xxx.com</Email>
        <FromName>Maneesh From Name</FromName>
        <BusinessName>Maneesh and Company1</BusinessName>
        <Address>123 Main St.</Address>
        <City>Indianapolis</City>
        <State>IN</State>
        <Zip>46202</Zip>
        <IsActive>1</IsActive>

        <IsTestAccount>false</IsTestAccount>
        <EditionID>3</EditionID>
        <Subscription xsi:nil="true"/>
     </Objects>
  </CreateRequest>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>