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The Constituent API was updated on 8/8/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the Relationship (Edit) endpoint. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 08/09/2017 10:06 AM

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SKY API & SKY UX Quarterly Update Webinar

Want a concise recap of what's been delivered for SKY API in the past quarter? Curious to learn what the SKY API product teams are working on now or have queued up next on the roadmap? Want to engage directly with the SKY API product managers and ask them anything ? If so, be sure to register for the Blackbaud SKY API and SKY UX Quarterly Update webinar series. ... more

Posted by Dan Bowman in SKY API Announcements on 08/02/2017 12:15 PM

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Developer Blog Series: How To Handle Common SKY API Errors

It would be wonderful if every call to a SKY API had valid data, proper formatting, and an environment that was never in a bad state. Unfortunately, things don’t always work that way. Many problems can occur during an API request, ranging from bad requests to insufficient permissions to issues with SKY API itself. This blog post describes some errors ... more

Posted by Conor Wright in SKY API Announcements on 08/02/2017 10:56 AM

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Developer Blog Series: API Lists & Sort_token

Lately we’ve been getting a lot of questions and hearing a bit of confusion around how lists work within SKY API. I’m the first one to admit that they are a bit complex, so I would like to take a minute to give you a glance into how the sausage is made, explain why and how lists work the way they do, and hopefully provide some insights to improve your experience ... more

Posted by Halley Coplin in SKY API Announcements on 07/12/2017 10:34 AM

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The Accounts Payable API was updated on 6/30/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the following new endpoints: Invoice attachment - Post Media type (List) - Get more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 06/30/2017 03:32 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 6/27/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We updated the concept of inactive addresses to be consistent across address endpoints and better aligned with the web interface. Now, addresses are only marked inactive if their end_date is in the past. more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 06/28/2017 01:14 PM

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The General Ledger API was updated on 6/15/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We made several changes to the Get Account (Search) , Get Project (Search) , Get Journal entry batch (List) , and Get Transaction distribution (List) endpoints. The following properties are now returned: date_added , date_modified , added_by , and ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 06/15/2017 12:18 PM

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API Request Throttling

API request throttling is a fairly standard practice throughout the web. Most SaaS companies that provide web APIs do not permit unlimited API use. Some companies throttle requests to protect their backend resources where load and throughput are important metrics of service delivery, while others throttle requests as part of a broader business ... more

Posted by Ben Lambert in SKY API Announcements on 06/07/2017 09:00 AM

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SKY API Status Page...Subscribe To Updates Today!

Developers using APIs to deliver mission-critical functionality in their applications need to know immediately if those APIs are unavailable or response times are spiking. It's also important to know why an incident is occurring and when a resolution could be expected. For this reason, we introduced a SKY API Status page last year, to keep our ... more

Posted by Dan Bowman in SKY API Announcements on 06/05/2017 09:28 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 5/12/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the comment property to the relationship entity. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 05/12/2017 02:32 PM

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Changes To The Opportunity API (Beta)

The Opportunity API was updated on 5/10/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. The Opportunity (GET) endpoint now returns the date_added and date_modified properties. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 05/10/2017 02:44 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 5/9/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. The Communication preference (Edit) endpoint can now patch the start and end fields . The Action (Get) and Action list (Single constituent) endpoints now return the date_added and date_modified properties. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 05/09/2017 03:26 PM

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Changes To The Fundraising API (Beta)

The Opportunity API (Beta) was updated on 5/9/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. The Appeal list , Campaign list , and Fund list endpoints now exclude inactive records by default. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 05/09/2017 03:25 PM

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Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe!

We are excited to see more and more people asking questions and sharing feedback in the SKY API Community! All this growth and activity means it is a great time to post some security-related best practices and reminders. Today I’d like to talk about posting questions and screenshots. When working with SKY API, there are three sensitive values that ... more

Posted by Ben Lambert in SKY API Announcements on 05/08/2017 11:30 AM

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The General Ledger API was updated on 5/5/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We increased the maximum record limit from 500 to 5000 on the Transaction distribution endpoint. We added the following new endpoints: Budget grant (List) - Get Budget project (List) - Get more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 05/08/2017 10:11 AM

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Developer Blog Series: Synchronize Data To Raiser’s Edge NXT From A Custom Data Source

The Accounts Payable API was updated on 5/5/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the following new endpoints: Invoice 1099 amount (Get) Invoice 1099 box numbers (Get) more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 05/08/2017 09:59 AM

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New Tutorial: Create An App With SKY API

The Shared Changelog was updated on 5/4/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added a new step-by-step guide to help you learn the steps required to Create an App with SKY API . We recommend you complete this guide after you follow the Getting Started documentation. more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 05/04/2017 01:01 PM

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Last month , we covered the basics of how to synchronize data to a custom data source with SKY API. It is equally important to synchronize the changes in your custom data source with your data in Raiser’s Edge NXT. If you have a Workato subscription, then the Raiser’s Edge NXT connector available in the easy-to-use Workato recipe builder might suit your ... more

Posted by Lori Weiss in SKY API Announcements on 05/03/2017 12:01 PM

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Changes To The Opportunity API (Beta)

The Opportunity API was updated on 4/28/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. The new linked_gifts property on the opportunity entity provides an array of identifiers for gifts that are related to an opportunity. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 04/28/2017 02:31 PM

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Scheduled Maintenance - April 30, 2017

Schedule maintenance is planned for April 30, 2017. more

Posted by Dan Bowman in SKY API Announcements on 04/27/2017 10:47 AM

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Changes To The Gift API (Beta)

The Gift API (Beta) was updated on 4/25/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the following new endpoints : Gift custom field (Create) Gift custom field (Edit) Gift custom field categories (Get) Gift custom field category values (Get) more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 04/26/2017 12:56 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 4/25/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added several new properties to the relationship entity . We added the following new endpoints: Relationship (Create) Relationship types (Get) Organization contact types (Get) more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 04/26/2017 11:22 AM

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Release News: Treasury API (Beta)

The Treasury API (Beta) was released for a public beta on 4/25/2017. This API manages information related to bank accounts, including related entities such as adjustments, checks, and deposits. The initial release contains endpoints to retrieve a list of all bank accounts and bank account transactions, and to manage deposits, cash receipts, and ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 04/25/2017 12:23 PM

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Developer Blog Series: Synchronize Data To A Custom Data Source With SKY API

The Constituent API was updated on 4/20/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. The date_added parameter on the Constituent list endpoint now returns a sort_token to ensure that constituents are stably sorted . The new sort parameter on the Constituent list endpoint sorts constituents based on specified fields. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 04/21/2017 01:51 PM

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Release News: Opportunity API (Beta)

The Opportunity API (Beta) was released for a public beta on 4/12/2017. This API manages opportunity information and related entities such as opportunity fundraisers, opportunity attachments, and opportunity custom fields. See the changelog for more information. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 04/12/2017 11:59 AM

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Synchronizing data across multiple data sources is often an integral part of any strategy that uses multiple third-party providers. If you have a Workato subscription, then our Raiser’s Edge NXT recipe that uses the easy-to-use Workato UI might suit your needs. However, if you don’t have a subscription to Workato or have a complex synchronization ... more

Posted by Jason Tremper in SKY API Announcements on 04/05/2017 10:07 AM

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Changes To The Gift API (Beta)

The Gift API (Beta) was updated on 3/20/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the post_date property to the gift entity . more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 03/21/2017 10:48 AM

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New: PHP Code Sample and Tutorial

In response to a request from our SKY API Community , we are pleased to announce a new PHP code sample and accompanying PHP tutorial . These two new resources demonstrate the Blackbaud Auth Code Flow using PHP. Thanks for helping us improve the documentation! more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 03/10/2017 06:11 PM

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Release News: Fundraising, Betas, And Gifts... Oh My!

Good news, everyone! I am pleased to announce that we have released two new APIs as open Betas today , the Gift API and Fundraising API . Let me explain how open Betas work: Our Process SKY API development teams take an iterative approach to expanding our existing and upcoming APIs. What this means for new endpoints, entities, and APIs is that the initial ... more

Posted by Halley Coplin in SKY API Announcements on 03/08/2017 10:10 AM

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SKY API Documentation Comments

The SKY API developer site now offers commenting capability through Disqus. We encourage community involvement to improve our documentation. We will monitor comments just like we monitor feedback in our GitHub repository , and we will incorporate feedback to make our docs better. See something that is unclear? Want more detail? Leave a comment and ... more

Posted by Brandon Hare in SKY API Announcements on 03/03/2017 04:10 PM

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Developer Blog Series: What Is A Breaking Change?

A comment on a recent Community blog post raised a question about whether a planned change for the constituent API was a breaking change. This question prompted us to review our definition of breaking changes and document how we handle those changes. This blog post defines breaking changes for the SKY API, describes how we announce breaking changes and ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 03/01/2017 02:58 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 2/23/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. The new custom_field_category parameter to the Constituent list endpoint retrieves constituents based on their active custom fields . The Fundraiser list (Single constituent) endpoint now returns the appropriate value for the ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 02/23/2017 08:42 PM

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Issue: Applications Page

We are aware of an issue on the Control Panel, Applications page in SKY API enabled Blackbaud products. The Applications page does not load. Previous applications you authorized do not appear. While they have not been deleted, during this time you may get an error message that your application doesn’t have access to any SKY API enabled Blackbaud ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 02/17/2017 10:13 AM

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Developer Blog Series: An In-Depth Guide To Ratings Using SKY API

The Constituent API was updated on 2/9/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Countries (Get) Education (Create) Education (Edit) Education (Delete) Education schools (Get) Education types (Get) Education statuses (Get) Education subjects (Get) Education degrees (Get) ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 02/10/2017 03:27 PM

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SKY API Documentation Is Now Open Source

We are excited to announce that SKY API Documentation is now open source in GitHub . To make our documentation even better, we welcome contributions from the developer community in the form of pull requests or issues. See something in the docs that could be clearer? A typo? Let us know , or help us out and submit a fix. On the SKY API developer website , you ... more

Posted by Brandon Hare in SKY API Announcements on 02/07/2017 09:00 AM

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Ratings are among the most complex entities that the Constituent API surfaces. The complexities include optionally required fields, value fields that are dynamic based on the data type, and categories that may or may not include a source. So I’ve put together an in-depth guide to ratings and their intricacies. When dealing with ratings, the first ... more

Posted by Cameron Beacham in SKY API Announcements on 02/01/2017 04:41 PM

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A breaking change is planned for the Constituent API. We are updating properties on the education entity to improve overall feature parity and to support upcoming education endpoints. See our Changelog for more information. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 01/31/2017 12:04 PM

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The General Ledger API was updated on 01/18/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Account Project Account cashflows (List) Account working capitals (List) Account custom fields (List) more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 01/18/2017 05:00 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 1/11/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We updated the do_not_mail and preferred properties on the Address (Create) endpoint to set the default value to false. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 01/11/2017 09:24 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 1/10/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We added the campus , known_name , and social_organization properties to the education entity. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 01/10/2017 09:42 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 1/6/2017. See our Changelog entries for more information. We updated the Constituent custom field list (Single constituent) and the Constituent code list (Single constituent) endpoints to populate some of their properties. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 01/06/2017 03:01 PM

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New: SKY API Status Page

We added a new Status link to the Support menu. This link takes you to our new SKY API status page. The status page provides the current state of API availability, as well as specific details on downtime incidents. We also provide the option for you to subscribe to automatic incident notifications by email, SMS, or feed. For more information, including ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 12/07/2016 12:19 PM

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The Accounts Payable API was updated on 12/06/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Invoice custom field (List) Vendor custom field (List) We added new custom field entities to the following endpoints: Invoice (Post) Invoice (Get) Vendor (Post) Vendor (Get) Changed For consistency ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 12/07/2016 12:04 PM

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The General Ledger API was updated on 12/06/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Journal entry custom field (List) Project custom field (List) Budget Budget (List) Budget account (List) Ledger summary (List) We added new custom field entities to the following endpoints: Project ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 12/07/2016 11:57 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 11/16/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. The Constituent list endpoint now includes an option to filter constituents based on their associated constituent codes. more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 11/16/2016 10:09 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 11/14/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Constituent code list (All constituents) Constituent custom field list (All constituents) Changed We implemented a new naming convention for list endpoints to better indicate whether the endpoints return ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 11/15/2016 11:15 AM

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The General Ledger API was updated on 11/01/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Create project (Post) Create project contact (Post) more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 11/02/2016 03:19 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 10/20/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Address (List) Email address (List) Online presence (List) Phone (List) We are aware of an issue with the new Address (List) where the formatted_address and inactive attributes are not populated on the ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 10/20/2016 03:00 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 10/17/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Changed The fundraisers property on the action entity now contains an array of strings populated with the constituent_id of fundraisers instead of an array of action fundraiser entities . New We added the following endpoints: Action custom ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 10/18/2016 02:05 PM

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New: Application Logos

The Shared Changelog was updated on 10/17/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New Logos can now be associated with your applications. The logo is the icon that users will see on the consent form when they give an application authorization to use their product's account to access the API. Logos can be added to new and existing ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 10/17/2016 05:23 PM

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Issue: Constituent API

We are aware of an intermittent issue affecting a subset of Raiser's Edge NXT tenants, whereby Constituent API requests result in exceedingly long response times or timeouts. We are researching the issue and will post another update soon when we have more information. Resolved: Service has been restored as of 10/17/2016 at 9:30am EDT (1:30pm UTC). more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 10/15/2016 11:07 AM

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The Accounts Payable API was updated on 10/12/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Changed For consistency across APIs, we implemented the following changes: All responses to POST requests changed from "Recordid" to "record_id". The following endpoints and their associated fields changed from CamelCase to snake_case: ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 10/14/2016 04:40 PM

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The General Ledger API was updated on 10/06/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Fiscal year (List) Class (List) Account structure Account segment value (List) Account code (List) Account fund (List) Project type (List) Project status (List) Project division (List) Project ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 10/14/2016 04:39 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 10/3/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Prospect status (Get) Fundraiser (List) more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 10/04/2016 09:53 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 9/28/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Breaking Change Planned We will change the fundraisers property on the action entity so that it contains a list of strings populated with the constituent_id of fundraisers instead of an array of action fundraiser entities. Changed Th e ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 09/29/2016 03:28 PM

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Breaking Changes To The Constituent API

A breaking change is planned for the Constituent API. See the changelog for more details. We will change the query string parameter includeInactive to include_inactive on the Constituent (List) endpoint . more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 09/23/2016 11:21 AM

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Developer Blog Series: Backend For Frontend (BFF) Authorization Code Flow

The Constituent API was updated on 9/14/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Breaking Change Planned The Constituent (List) endpoint will no longer return deceased constituents by default. Instead, they will be included by setting a new include_deceased option to true. We will also change the following query string ... more

Posted by John Lyons in SKY API Announcements on 09/20/2016 09:23 AM

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The Backend for Frontend, or BFF, pattern has been the talk of the town in the world of microservices over the past few months. Since we are a microservice shop under the hood here at Blackbaud, I thought that I would take some time to talk about the BFF pattern and how it may relate to your applications as you work with SKY API. But first, a quick overview of ... more

Posted by Halley Coplin in SKY API Announcements on 09/19/2016 10:45 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 9/7/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Communication preference (Edit) Constituent rating (Create) Constituent rating (Edit) Constituent rating (Delete) Changed We added the lookup_id property to the search results entity. more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 09/07/2016 02:04 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 8/31/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Action Attachment (Get list) Action Attachment (Post) Changed We changed the URL for the Constituent Attachment (Post) endpoint to /constituents/attachments . The constituentId is now expected in the ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/31/2016 04:59 PM

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Breaking Changes To The Constituent API

A breaking change is planned for the Constituent API. See the changelog for more details. All POST endpoints will now return a JSON object containing the id, in the form { "id": "123" } , instead of the current string response. UPDATE : This change took effect on Friday, September 02, 2016. more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/29/2016 11:37 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 8/26/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Breaking Change Planned We will change the URL for the Constituent Attachment (Post) endpoint to /constituents/attachments . Changed We renamed the proposal_id property to opportunity_id on actions to be consistent with product verbiage. ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/29/2016 11:30 AM

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Breaking Changes To The Constituent API

Breaking changes are planned for the Constituent API. See the changelog for more details. The data type assigned to the value property on the rating entity will be changed from a string to an object. As it stands today, all values are returned as a string, which must then be parsed (by the requestor) into the intended type. After release, the ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/29/2016 11:21 AM

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Breaking Change: Record Limits For General Ledger And Accounts Payable APIs

The Constituent API was updated on 8/22/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added a new endpoint -- Currency configuration (Get). Changed The data type assigned to the value property on the rating entity was changed from a string to an object. Previously, all values were returned as strings that needed to be parsed (by ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/23/2016 10:34 AM

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We changed the default and maximum record limits on several search and list endpoints. See the General Ledger Changelog and Accounts Payable Changelog for more information. more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 08/12/2016 01:52 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 8/11/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoints: Communication preference (Create) Communication preference (Delete) Communication preference (Get list) Changed We added start and end to the Communication Preference entity to represent optional ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/11/2016 04:52 PM

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Accounts Payable API Is Now Available

Accounts Payable API is now available in our Partner Beta . Use this API to manage accounts payable, including vendors and invoices. Review SKY's authorization workflow SKY API uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol to authorize API requests. This provides a mechanism for your application to access Blackbaud customer data without exposing any user ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 08/04/2016 01:56 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 8/3/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added a new endpoint -- Communication preference (Get list). Changed We removed boolean_value , code_table_value , constituent_id_value , date_value , fuzzy_date_value , currency_value , numeric_value , text_value and replaced them ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 08/03/2016 05:20 PM

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Developer Blog Series: A REST Client Is Your Friend

As a developer building an app against the Sky API, you're going to have occasions where it will be handy to have tools that can easily generate one-off requests to the API from somewhere other than your app. REST clients are one such tool. This blog post briefly discusses the purpose of a REST client and the benefits of adding it to your toolset. more

Posted by Chris Rodgers in SKY API Announcements on 08/01/2016 12:32 PM

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Breaking Change: Changing Custom Field Entity

A breaking change for the Constituent API is planned to take effect on Monday, August 1st. See the changelog for more details. We willl remove boolean_value , code_table_value , constituent_id_value , date_value , fuzzy_date_value , currency_value , numeric_value , text_value and replace them with a single value property for use ... more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 07/29/2016 03:48 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 7/27/2016. We added a new endpoint -- Constituent (Edit). See our Changelog entries for more information. more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 07/27/2016 05:32 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 7/22/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New Added the following endpoints: Rating Custom field Custom field category values Changed We added the date_added , date_modified , title_2 , suffix_2 , marital_status , deceased_date properties to the Constituent entity. more

Posted by Lindsey Rix in SKY API Announcements on 07/27/2016 05:28 PM

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Changes to the Constituent API

The Constituent API was updated on 7/18/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. New We added the following endpoint: Operation Method Route Constituent (Create) POST /constituents Changed We removed the business property from the Constituent entity. more

Posted by Dan Bowman in SKY API Announcements on 07/18/2016 11:48 PM

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Changes to the Constituent API

The Constituent API was updated on 7/7/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. We renamed kind to type and types to tags on the Attachment entity. We renamed nickname to preferred_name on the Constituent entity. more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 07/08/2016 10:07 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 7/1/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Added the following endpoints: First, latest, greatest gifts. Custom constituent field categories Titles Suffixes Marital Statuses more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 07/01/2016 03:08 PM

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Breaking Change: Changing Attachment And Constituent Entities

A breaking change for the Constituent API is planned to take effect on Wednesday, July 6th. See the changelog for more details. We will rename kind to type and types to tags on the Attachment entity. We will rename nickname to preferred_name on the Constituent entity. more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 06/30/2016 06:34 PM

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Breaking Change: Removing General Ledger API Endpoint

In the coming days, a breaking change will occur for General Ledger API. We plan to remove the Journal entry batch (Edit) endpoint. See our Changelog entries for more information. UPDATE: This change took effect on Tuesday, July 5. more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 06/30/2016 02:54 PM

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Changes to General Ledger API

The General Ledger API was updated on 6/28/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. We now accept application ID and secret in the request body, in addition to the Authorization header. Created a C# Auth Code Flow code sample and tutorial . more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 06/28/2016 03:05 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 6/27/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Added a new endpoint -- Address (Edit) We now accept application ID and secret in the request body, in addition to the Authorization header. Created a C# Auth Code Flow code sample and tutorial . Added the ability to retrieve inactive email ... more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 06/27/2016 05:36 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 6/15/2016 and 6/20/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Added a new endpoint -- Address (Delete) . Updated the Constituent (Get List) endpoint to include a new, optional postal_code parameter which provides the ability to filter constituents by postal code based on their preferred ... more

Posted by Dan Bowman in SKY API Announcements on 06/20/2016 11:10 PM

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General Ledger API Is Now Available

General Ledger API is now available in our Partner Beta . Use this API to post transactions to the general ledger. Review SKY's authorization workflow SKY API uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol to authorize API requests. This provides a mechanism for your application to access Blackbaud customer data without exposing any user credentials ... more

Posted by Ellyn Hassell in SKY API Announcements on 06/13/2016 11:56 AM

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Breaking Change: API Versioning

As part of making the transition from the SKY API's Tech Preview phase to Beta , we will be introducing a breaking change . We wanted to let you know in advance, so that you can prepare to update any code currently consuming the SKY API. We will be adding a versioning indicator to the Constituent API and General Leger APIs' base URLs. Specifically, all ... more

Posted by Dan Bowman in SKY API Announcements on 06/12/2016 11:50 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 6/9/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. We've added the OAuth2 Implicit Flow for use in web browser and mobile apps where application secret confidentiality is not guaranteed. A new feature allows you to export API definitions in Swagger and WADL formats from within the API Console . Use ... more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 06/09/2016 11:25 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 6/1/2016 and 6/6/2016. See our Changelog entries for more information. Added the following endpoints: Lifetime giving (Get) Memberships (Get list) Action types (Get list) Action status types (Get list) more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 06/06/2016 02:47 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 5/24/2016. See our Changelog entry for more information. Renamed send_mail to do_not_mail on the Address entity. Added the Address types (Get List) endpoint. more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 05/24/2016 04:00 PM

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The Constituent API was updated on 5/20/2016. See our Changelog entry for more information. Breaking changes announced on the Address entity and Constituent entity. New endpoints to add, edit, and delete Phones. New endpoints to list Phone types, Email address types, Online presence types, and Constituent code types. more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 05/24/2016 11:15 AM

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Breaking Change: Changing Address And Constituent Entities

During our SKY API Tech Preview 2.0 period, the API will be subject to a few periodic breaking changes as we refine and improve it. We wanted to let you know in advance that one of these changes is scheduled to be introduced in the next day or so. We will be removing business and seasonal properties for an Address and the business property from a ... more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 05/16/2016 10:56 AM

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The Constituent API was updated on 5/13/2016. See our Changelog entry for more information. A next_link property has been added to our paginated collection responses and represents the URI for the next page of results. This property takes into account any relevant pagination parameters, such as limit , offset , or last_modified , and date_added ... more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 05/13/2016 11:29 AM

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Developer Next Steps

Welcome to SKY API. This article provides guidance for those of you who are new to the API. I t assumes that you recently requested or were approved for a subscription. If not, be sure to complete our Getting Started guide. After you are approved, your developer account is added as a user in the sandbox database/tenant and your subscription key is ... more

Posted by Trip Ottinger in SKY API Announcements on 05/12/2016 10:48 AM

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