URI - Production and Developer Sandbox

Ephantus Kiragu

Are there different URIs for dev and production? I just want to be sure when testing with postman, especially creating resources, I don't mess things up. I haven't been able to identify different URIs, yet, looking through the documentation.

Ben Wong

Hey Ephantus Kiragu‍,


If you're referring to the endpoint URIs, then no there are not different URIs for dev and production. Where the API call is made is determined by the OAuth Authorization flow where a user selects which environment the app is authorized to make API calls to. So if an organization has a dev and production environment, a user will need to authorize the app the make calls to each one. The OAuth process will return an access_token for each environment. Here are some links to resources that may help:


This explains the Blackbaud customer data model and illustrates how an org can have a test environment and a production environment:
https://developer.blackbaud.com/skyapi/docs/basics#customer-data-model


This explains the Authorization code flow. Step 2 is when the user selects and environment to authorize:
https://developer.blackbaud.com/skyapi/docs/authorization/auth-code-flow


This is the Authorization code flow tutorial:
https://developer.blackbaud.com/skyapi/docs/authorization/auth-code-flow/tutorial


Let me know if this documentation helps.


Thanks!