Authentication: retrieve session ID for a user

You can use a session ID (SID) to authenticate your calls to the SData API and perform actions under the user account to which the SID belongs. To retrieve a session ID, submit your user name and password to Sage CRM as shown below.

Headers

Key	Value
Content-Type	application/xml

HTTP

POST http://{{server}}/crm/eware.dll/webservices/soap

URI parameters

Name	Description
{{server}}	Name or IP address of a Sage CRM server.

Request body

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<soap:Body>

<logon xmlns="http://tempuri.org/type">

<username></username>

<password></password>

</logon>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Tag	Description
<username></username>	Use this tag to submit the user name of the Sage CRM account whose SID you want to retrieve. Example <username>Admin</username>
<password></password>	Use this tag to submit the password of the Sage CRM account whose SID you want to retrieve.

Sample response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

    <SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<SOAP-ENV:Body>

<logonresponsetype xmlns="http://tempuri.org/type">

<result>

<sessionid>125407476439516</sessionid>

</result>

</logonresponsetype>

</SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Name	Description
<sessionid></sessionid>	Contains SID of the user account.