msnp-wiki/docs/services/abservice/abgroupadd.md

# Introduction
`ABGroupAdd` is one of the SOAP actions the [Address Book Service](../abservice.md) provides.

Creates a contact group.

# Client/Request
The template used in this action is described on the [Address Book Service](../abservice.md) main page.

## ABGroupAdd
This element has only one attribute:
* `xmlns:` Is always set to `http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook`.

### abId
This element contains your [Address Book Service](../abservice.md) GUID.

### groupAddOptions
This element has only one child:
* `<fRenameOnMsgrConflict>`: Should this group be renamed if it conflicts with
  a group that already exists in the Messenger Service (`true` or `false`)?

### groupInfo
This element only contains the `<GroupInfo>` element.

#### GroupInfo
This element contains four children:
* `<name>`: The name of the group.
* `<groupType>`: The GUID type of group:
	* `C8529CE2-6EAD-434d-881F-341E17DB3FF8`: A contact group.
* `<fMessenger>`: Unknown purpose (`true` or `false`).

##### annotations
This element only contains one or multiple `<Annotation>` element(s).

###### Annotation
This element only has two children:
* `<Name>`: The key of this annotation.
* `<Value>`: The value of this annotation.

Usually only used to set `MSN.IM.Display` to `1`.

# Server/Response
The template used in this action is described on the [Address Book Service](../abservice.md) main page.

## ABGroupAddResponse
This element has only one attribute:
* `xmlns:` Is always set to `http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook`.

### ABGroupAddResult
This element only contains the `<guid>` element.

#### guid
This element only contains the GUID of the newly created group.

# Examples

## Client/Request
```
POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABGroupAdd
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1486

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
		xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
		xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
		<soap:Header>
				<ABApplicationHeader
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<ApplicationID>996CDE1E-AA53-4477-B943-2BE802EA6166</ApplicationID>
						<IsMigration>false</IsMigration>
						<PartnerScenario>GroupSave</PartnerScenario>
				</ABApplicationHeader>
				<ABAuthHeader
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<ManagedGroupRequest>false</ManagedGroupRequest>
						<TicketToken>t=ticket&amp;p=profile</TicketToken>
				</ABAuthHeader>
		</soap:Header>
		<soap:Body>
				<ABGroupAdd
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
						<groupAddOptions>
								<fRenameOnMsgrConflict>false</fRenameOnMsgrConflict>
						</groupAddOptions>
						<groupInfo>
								<GroupInfo>
									<name>Friends</name>
									<groupType>C8529CE2-6EAD-434d-881F-341E17DB3FF8</groupType>
									<fMessenger>false</fMessenger>
									<annotations>
										<Annotation>
											<Name>MSN.IM.Display</Name>
											<Value>1</Value>
										</Annotation>
									</annotations>
								</GroupInfo>
						</groupInfo>
				</ABGroupAdd>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
```

## Server/Response
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 903

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
		xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>
		<soap:Header>
				<ServiceHeader
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<Version>12.01.1111.0000</Version>
						<CacheKey>12r1;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo1NTo1Ni45NDla</CacheKey>
						<CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
						<PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
						<SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
				</ServiceHeader>
		</soap:Header>
		<soap:Body>
				<ABGroupAddResponse
						xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
						<ABGroupAddResult>
								<guid>f60efbe7-94af-4b16-b926-e4e10878d329</guid>
						</ABGroupAddResult>
				</ABGroupAddResponse>
		</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
```