The following sample updates an existing account record.

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Date date = new Date();

protected AccountRepository accountRepository;

//for this example, it is assumed that you already know the target account record's unique key (where uniqueKey is a String variable)

AccountUpdate account = new AccountUpdate();

account.setUniqueKey(uniqueKey);

account.setName("Budget 2009 Q2");

account.setAllocated(15000.00);

account.setAllocationLimit(20000.00);

account.setUsed(5000.00);

account.setAvailable(10000.00);

account.setStartOn(date);

account.setAccountOverdraftType(AccountOverdraftType.ALLOW_NEGATIVE);

account.setType(AccountType.BUDGET);

account.setActive(true);

//setting the autoPost property to true indicates that financial transactions can post to this account;

account.setAutoPost(true);

account.setParentAccountUniqueKey("ACCT_1519");

accountRepository.updateAccount(account);