How to Retrieve an ExactTarget Email?

Question

How to retrieve an Exact Target Email?

I followed from the sample here:

and I have the below code:

var retrieveRequest = new RetrieveRequest();
        retrieveRequest.ObjectType = "Email";
        retrieveRequest.Properties = new []
                                         {
                                             "ID","Name"
                                         };

        // add the filter
        var simpleFilterPart = new SimpleFilterPart
                                   {
                                       SimpleOperator = SimpleOperators.equals,
                                       Property = "Name",
                                       Value = new[] { "EmailTemplateTest1" },

                                   };

        retrieveRequest.Filter = simpleFilterPart;

        APIObject[] apiObjects;

        string requestId;
        var result = this._soapClient.Retrieve(retrieveRequest, out requestId, out apiObjects);

But when it runs, the "result" variable contains the below error message:

**Error: Invalid column name 'Name'.
Invalid column name 'EmailTemplateTest1'.**

"Name" is a column name for my Email Template whose name is "EmailTemplateTest1".

Not sure what could be wrong? the column names and values look fine to me.

Should I be specifying the Folder path (e.g. Folder1/Folder2/Folder3) in which the email template is located? if so, how?

Any thought?

thanks

Answer 1

I have been struggling with the ExactTarget soap api as well. The only way I have been able to retrieve an email is by setting :

retrievRequest.QueryAllAccounts = true

retrievRequest.QueryAllAccountsSpecified = true