Power Automate Triggers for SKY APIs

Eric Eskildsen

Hi all,

I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year.

I was playing with the SKY connectors in Power Automate and noticed they don't have triggers yet, at least not the ones I checked out.

By triggers, I mean events like, “New user added,” or “Student withdrew from class.”

From this post, I gather the team was focusing on releasing the HTTP connector in late 2022, so it sounds like it's a young connector still with maybe more to come:

What I'm wondering is:

• Has anyone heard if/when triggers may be added?
• What are your workarounds in the meantime?
• Is there a need for triggers in your flows?

Alex Wong

@Eric Eskildsen
There is no predefined trigger in power automate for Blackbaud product. What they have is webhook:

For event like when constituent created/updated/deleted, gift created/updated/deleted

Eric Eskildsen

@Alex Wong, thanks—that makes sense.

Is there a roadmap for adding webhooks and/or triggers to the other solutions, or is that TBD?

Alex Wong

@Eric Eskildsen
not that I'm aware.. Blackbaud will have to answer that

Ben Regier

@Eric Eskildsen
As Alex said, there are no triggers yet, but webhooks are available. However, it is possible to use a webhook as a trigger for a Power Automate flow. Setting it up is significantly more involved than a normal PA trigger, but depending on your experience level with REST HTTP calls and the importance of the problem you're trying to solve, it could be worth looking into.

There some information on the process here, though it isn't exhaustive.