Utility Calls

This topic describes API calls that your client applications can invoke to obtain the system timestamp, user information, and change user passwords.

For a list of Apex-related calls, see Apex-Related Calls, for a list of core calls, see Core Calls, and for a list of describe calls, see Describe Calls.

Note

The following table lists the API utility calls described in this topic:

Task / Call	Description
`getServerTimestamp()`	Retrieves the current system timestamp from the API.
`changeOwnPassword()`	Allows users to change their own passwords.
`getUserInfo()`	Retrieves personal information for the user associated with the current session.
`match()`	Evaluates sObjects provided as an input for matches among Leads, using the matching rule specified in the input MatchOptions. This call can be used only with the Standard Matching Rule for Leads on Accounts.
`renderEmailTemplate()`	Replaces merge fields in text bodies of email templates with values from Salesforce records, even for polymorphic fields. The email template bodies and their corresponding `whoId` and `whatId` values are specified in the argument.
`resetPassword()`	Changes a user’s password to a system-generated value.
`sendEmail()`	Immediately sends an email message.
`sendEmailMessage()`	Immediately sends up to 10 draft email messages.
`setPassword()`	Sets the specified user’s password to the specified value.

Samples

The samples in this section are based on the enterprise WSDL file. They assume that you have already imported the WSDL file and created a connection. To learn how to do so, see the Quick Start tutorial.