TimeEntries 404 Error

[blabelle-sB]

Running the command "$Body = New-AutotaskBody -Resource TimeEntries" gives the error "New-AutotaskBody : Getting object failed: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found."

Creating the body in powershell directly and then running "New-AutotaskAPIResource -Resource TimeEntries -Body $Body" fails with the same error.

I have reproduced this on 2 devices, while it works on another 2. One of the ones that's not working is Azure Automate and I've tried powershell 5.1 as well as 7.2 with the same results in Azure. I've tried forcefully uninstalling and re-installing the module on my local computer.

[blabelle-sB]

I've found that using the "Add-AutotaskBaseURI" command fixes the issue. For some reason the other commands work without having to specify the uri, but the timeentries flag does not work if I don't specify the uri. What's more strange is that I need to run the "Add-AutotaskBaseURI" command immediately before the New-AutotaskAPIResource command. If I run it at the beginning of my script, it doesn't stick. Is there a way to make that stick so I don't have to re-run it before every command?

[TheMonzel]

Did you run Get-AutotaskAPIResource before New-AutotaskAPIResource? If so, I guess this is related to #49

[phyco1991]

@blabelle-sB @TheMonzel I spent a bit of time investigating this tonight and found what I believe is the root cause.

When running New-AutotaskBody -Resource Tickets after the Get-AutotaskAPIResource function, the URL is malformed due to the {PARENTID} placeholder string injected into ResourceURL by Get-AutotaskAPIResource.

The resulting URL the script attempts to call looks something like https://webservices6.autotask.net/ATServicesRest/V1.0/Tickets/{PARENTID}/entityInformation/fields

When it really should look like https://webservices6.autotask.net/ATServicesRest/V1.0/Tickets/entityInformation/fields

To fix this, we need to strip this placeholder if it's added by Get-AutotaskAPIResource

I added the below into New-AutotaskBody to achieve this

$ResourceURL = $ResourceURL -replace '(?i)/?{parentid}/?', ''

In this section specifically

    process {
        $ResourceURL = (($Script:Queries | Where-Object { $_.'Post' -eq $Resource }).Name | Select-Object -first 1) -replace '/query', '' | Select-Object -first 1
        if ( !$ResourceURL ) {
            $ResourceURL = (($Script:Queries | Where-Object { $_.'Patch' -eq $Resource }).Name | Select-Object -first 1) -replace '/query', '' | Select-Object -first 1
        }
        $ResourceURL = $ResourceURL -replace '(?i)/?{parentid}/?', '' # New code here to strip the {PARENTID} placeholder
        try {
            $resource = $PSBoundParameters.resource

I've already submitted one PR to the repo recently so will see if that gets approved, then move forward with pushing one for this change. But I'll push the change to my fork tonight if you would like to test.