"Named Guest" Support?

Creston Jamison

Within RE NXT, for guest participants, you can create a constituent record for them OR create a “Named Guest”. Which kinda looks like a constituent record but is not? Is it possible to create “Named Guest” records with the SKY API?

The desire is to create constituents for registrants from a 3rd party system but create additional guests as “Named Guests”. According to the API docs, no name, address, email, etc. can be added to a participant, yet it appears in RE NXT, this is possible?

Thanks!

Samantha McGuin

Hi Creston,

The “Named Guest" in webview Events is actually a Relationship record, aka a Non-constituent record.

You can use the Create Relationship endpoint to create the Relationship/Named Guest record and then the Create Participant endpoint to create the Named Guest as a participant of the event.

Let us know if that works for you!

Samantha McGuin
Principal Product Manager
Blackbaud

Creston Jamison

Hi Samantha,

Thank you for the response. What you said makes sense, but I am a little fuzzy on the details as I looked over the API docs into how to create them. It brings forth a lot of questions. Maybe there is some documentation somewhere that describes constituent vs. non-constituent records vs. system record ids better?

When creating a relationship, the POST API docs says:

The identifier of the reciprocal relationship is in the reciprocal_relationship_id property.

But, I do not see a reciprocal_relationship_id property anywhere (other than that sentence near the top of the docs). I see a relation_id but it says to use the system record id. How is that related to the constituent id?

Here is a scenario. Someone who is a constituent in the system registers for something. We can create a participant record for them and enter their constituent_id for that participant record. That part makes sense. However, their spouse is coming as well. The spouse already has a relationship record. When pulling that spouse record, it has a relation_id. That relation_id can be used to lookup a constituent using GET constituent. However, the returned record has is_constituent as false. So it is stored in constituents yet it is a non-constituent?

So, to create a participant record for this spouse, can we just use the relation_id from the relationship record and place it in the constituent_id field when making the POST create participant call?