Athletics Schedule Behaviors

Dan Bonville

I am encountering an issue with several of the clients I work with when trying to integrate athletics teams' schedules.  I have noted this behavior on several sites and tried other support avenues to no avail, so I am reaching out here.


The issue is described below:


I pulled a list of events for a team, using this call: https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/athletics/schedules?team_id=92999586&school_year=2020-2021&include_practice=true


That returns 26 events. However, each one of them has the following data in them:

"practice": false,

...

"scrimmage": false,


That confuses me as if I make this call: https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/athletics/schedules?team_id=92999586&school_year=2020-2021


....I get 0 events returned.


I would have expected the events returned in the first call to ALL be practices or scrimmages (and those flags "true") based on the fact I get 0 results when calling for non-practice events.


This seems to be a data issue or something as we would not be able to properly label practices as such in our system if the scrimmage/practice flag is not reliable.


I can provide more details and replicate this, I just didn't want to share client information in a public forum.


Thanks,

Dan

Dan Bonville

I could really use some assistance on this.  I know the post above is only three days old, but I have been hunting for an answer for a few weeks now.  My contact wasn't able to respond to me and the normal Blackbaud Support channel told me "we don't support the API", so this seems my only chance to get a response.  I have a couple of client projects parked because of this so it is fairly critical for us.

Dan Bonville

Blackbaud acknowledged this bug and recently pushed an update to address this, and that seems to have done the trick.