I’ve been working on integrations recently, in particular SOAP and utilising the out of the box direct web services as much as possible.

One of the things that I couldn’t figure out when querying to search for records, is how to do advanced searches without using the __encoded_query element. The reason I was looking for a simpler method was that I was automating the interface from another system and making this other system generate the encoded query wasn’t always the cleanest way of doing it.

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