How to give a Class to an QBO v3 entity? - intuit-partner-platform

Question

In v2 of QBO we had an ability to pass the Class (e.g. string name of a class) to any of the entities (Customer, Invoice, Payment etc). To be able to sort/group them by the classes. The question is: how to do the same in v3?
Tried to send some Class entities to QBO - they are being created, but never assigned to any of entities. If you give, for example, a Class Reference to an Invoice (setClassRef()) - it won't populate the Class field of Invoice in QBO. And what is more interesting - if you give an existing Class (created via Classes menu of QBO - https://qbo.intuit.com/app/class) to an Invoice in QBO (populate Class field) and then fetch this invoice's entity - it WON'T contain any Class reference information. Which is strange.
Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Please check if you have enabled Class tracking from Preference Tab
Here is one example where class is being referenced from Invoice.
<IntuitResponse xmlns="http://schema.intuit.com/finance/v3" time="2014-03-03T09:14:13.444-08:00">
<QueryResponse startPosition="1" maxResults="1" totalCount="1">
<Invoice domain="QBO" sparse="false">
<Id>1</Id>
<SyncToken>0</SyncToken>
<MetaData>
<CreateTime>2014-03-03T09:13:52-08:00</CreateTime>
<LastUpdatedTime>2014-03-03T09:13:52-08:00</LastUpdatedTime>
</MetaData>
<DocNumber>1001</DocNumber>
<TxnDate>2014-03-03</TxnDate>
<CurrencyRef name="United States Dollar">USD</CurrencyRef>
<Line>
<Id>1</Id>
<LineNum>1</LineNum>
<Description>Test product desc</Description>
<Amount>0</Amount>
<DetailType>SalesItemLineDetail</DetailType>
<SalesItemLineDetail>
<ItemRef name="Hours">2</ItemRef>
<UnitPrice>0</UnitPrice>
<Qty>1</Qty>
<TaxCodeRef>NON</TaxCodeRef>
</SalesItemLineDetail>
</Line>
<Line>
<Amount>0</Amount>
<DetailType>SubTotalLineDetail</DetailType>
<SubTotalLineDetail />
</Line>
<CustomerRef name="Customer123">2</CustomerRef>
<BillAddr>
<Id>2</Id>
<Line1>Customer123</Line1>
<Lat>32.8856854</Lat>
<Long>-96.9343488</Long>
</BillAddr>
<ClassRef name="CLASS-1">3000000000000199718</ClassRef>
<SalesTermRef>3</SalesTermRef>
<DueDate>2014-04-02</DueDate>
<TotalAmt>0</TotalAmt>
<ApplyTaxAfterDiscount>false</ApplyTaxAfterDiscount>
<PrintStatus>NotSet</PrintStatus>
<EmailStatus>NotSet</EmailStatus>
<Balance>0</Balance>
<Deposit>0</Deposit>
<AllowIPNPayment>false</AllowIPNPayment>
<AllowOnlinePayment>false</AllowOnlinePayment>
<AllowOnlineCreditCardPayment>false</AllowOnlineCreditCardPayment>
<AllowOnlineACHPayment>false</AllowOnlineACHPayment>
</Invoice>
</QueryResponse>
</IntuitResponse>
UI snapshot
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