On the SKY API Developer Portal, we added two new sample applications to the App Showcase .  Siri iOS sample A native Swift application for iOS that demonstrates how to access constituent data via SKY API, experiments with Siri capabilities, displays a native SKY UX adaptation, and negotiates security using OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow. Hey ... more

The Webhook API is now available and is in beta! To participate in the beta, contact the  Blackbaud SKY Developer team . We will update the new changelog with any additions or improvements to the API. The Webhook API enables 3rd-party applications to subscribe to specific events that happen within the Blackbaud system. For example, when constituents ... more

The Event API (Beta) was updated on 5/18/2020. See our  Changelog  entries for more information. To better support integrations that use participant information, we updated the  Get event participant list  endpoint to return more details about a participant’s name. When name is requested, the response now returns the following fields: ... more

A new  Headless Data Sync  sample application has been added to the App Showcase. It is a SKY API console application that demonstrates how to query for records that have been modified since the last data synchronization. This is useful for applications that need to update a custom data source based on changes to Blackbaud data, and require no user ... more

The General Ledger API was updated on 5/01/2020. See our Changelog entries for more information. We updated the Journal entry entity to enable reverse transactions for several endpoints: We added the reverse_date and reverse_transaction_id properties for the Journal entry batch (Get) and Journal entry (List) endpoints. We added the ... more

The School API is updated. The endpoint for  User Extended List  returns races as additional information. Individuals can have multiple values for the  Races field in Education Management. This enables schools to more accurately track demographic information. In comparison, the older Ethnicity field is a single select field and is thus less ... more

The SKY Add-ins framework was updated on 4/24/2020. See the  changelog  for more information. We added support for showing page-blocking waits. With the new  showWait  and  hideWait  methods you can now request the parent page to render a wait indicator over the full page, or remove it. more

For a limited time, all SKY Developers are invited to receive free access to an FENXT environment to try out making SKY Add-ins and basic read-only SKY API applications. Interested SKY Developers can request an invitation to this FENXT environment by messaging Paul Gibson via the community with the name of your SKY Developer application that has an Add-in defined.  This FENXT sandbox joins the RENXT sandbox previously announced that many SKY Developers have been trying out. more

A new shared changelog was posted on 4/17/2020. See the  changelog  for more information. OAuth token responses have been updated to include additional information about the consenting user. After login, the user will now be asked to provide consent for your application to access their Blackbaud data and  user information . If the user grants access ... more

The Gift API was updated on 04/16/2020. See our  Changelog  entries for more information. The  Gift (Create)  and  Gift (Batch)  endpoints now support PayPal and Venmo for the  payment_method  of a payment. more

The Event API (Beta) was updated on 4/15/2020. See our  Changelog  entries for more information. more

The Gift API was updated on 04/02/2020. See our  Changelog  entries for more information. For the  Gift (Get)  and  Gift list (Get)  endpoints, we added PayPal and Venmo to the list of available payment_method values returned in a gift's payment information. more

We deprecated the  use_masterpass  transaction parameter for Blackbaud Checkout because MasterCard removed the Masterpass wallet as a payment option starting on March 31. The change is related to Visa and MasterCard joining forces to provide a one-click digital wallet solution that will combine Masterpass and Visa Checkout. The switch to the ... more

Add-ins were updated on 3/31/2020. See the  changelog  for more information. We added the Event Tile Dashboard and Participant Tile Dashboard to the list of extension points  to enable tile add-ins on the Event and Participant record pages. more

The School API has been released. The Beta phase is complete; the API is now Generally Available (GA).  This API provides access to school information such as users, academics, admissions, athletics, content, general school info, and lists. This release contains endpoints previously available in the Legacy 'ON' API and new endpoints to extend the ... more

A breaking change we previously announced is now live. We updated  (PATCH) Single user . Specifically, when a user sets  /school/v1/users/extended?base_role_ids=1   the API will return 1000 results. , the next_link  now returns  /school/v1/users/extended?base_role_ids=1&marker=3173483  which is the correct  next_link . This change ... more

The Event API (Beta) was updated on 3/30/2020. See our Changelog entries for more information. We changed the following endpoints: Get Event List We removed the  last_modified_from  and  last_modified_to  request parameters. We removed the  last_modified  response field. We now return most response fields by default when the  fields ... more

A new shared changelog was posted on 3/24/2020. The redirect URI is no longer a required field when you add an application, so it was moved from the Register application and Edit application screens to the Redirect URIs tile on the Application details page. However, if your application wants to request authorization to a Blackbaud customer's data, it ... more

A new shared changelog was posted on 3/20/2020. See the  changelog  for more information. We added and updated the following SKY API documentation. Added a new  Developer account  section on the Basics page. This section provides details about what it means to create a SKY Developer account and how to sign up for a Blackbaud ID. A Blackbaud ID is a ... more

TL;DR For a limited time, all SKY Developers are invited to receive free access to an RENXT environment to try out making SKY Add-ins and basic read-only SKY API applications. Interested SKY Developers can request an invitation to this RENXT environment by messaging Paul Gibson via the community with the name of your SKY Developer application that has an Add-in defined. more

We will update  (Patch) Single User . Specifically, when a user sets /school/v1/users/extended?base_role_ids=1 , the API will return 1000 results and the next_link will return correctly.   This change fixes a bug that was originally reported in the  Blackbaud SKY Developer community .  We plan to complete this change March 31, ... more

Add-ins framework was updated on 3/6/2020. See the  changelog  for more information. For full-page modals, we added an  AddinModalConfig type with a fullPage boolean property (default: false ) to indicate if a full-page modal add-in will be displayed. When fullPage  is set to  true , this instructs the host application to adjust the display ... more

The Event API (Beta) was released on 3/3/2020. This API includes endpoints to add, edit, and delete events and participants. It also includes endpoints to manage prices, fees, payments, and participant options. For more information, check out the entity and endpoint references. See the changelog for more information.   more

The General Ledger API was updated on 2/27/2020. See our  Changelog  entries for more information. We made the following changes to the Transaction distribution (List) endpoint: When listing transaction distributions, the  ui_batch_id  property is now returned. When filtering transaction distributions, the  ui_batch_id  filter is now ... more

The Gift API was updated on 02/21/2020. See our  Changelog  entries for more information. We added the  Batch Gift (Create)  endpoint. Use this endpoint to add a gift to an unapproved batch. In the future, we plan to support the ability to create and edit batches through the API. more