Where to find Level_id?

John Bozek

Good morning all I very new at working with APIs and am trying to discerne what or where I would find the Levelid for my organization. Unfortunately chat support has told me to reference an advanced list “school level.schoollevel” which returns a string of letters rather than an integer. I am referencing the below documentation which says Level_ID is an integer

API Reference - SKY API (blackbaud.com)

My goal is to be able to query the api and write the contents to a spreadsheet for a daily e-mail. any tips or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Brian Gray

@John Bozek - You can get a list of school level names and their IDs from Core school levels (https://developer.sky.blackbaud.com/api#api=school&operation=v1levelsget ).

These IDs are not changeable over time, so I have them hard-coded in most of my programs.

You could also have your code read through the data returned by this endpoint and look for the name you want, then store the associated ID number.

John Bozek

@Brian Gray I appreciate the insight! I am still struggling making my first authorized api call - I am somehow not inputting my key correctly so I am not sure this works though it seems like it would return the value I need. I was shown another more brute force way that I wanted to add to this thread.

Core > Settings > School Information > School and Grade Levels

Open dev tools, network tab

Expand the school level you need

Edit any grade level

Credit : Juan V. from support chat

Brian Gray

@John Bozek - See the Getting Started page on the Developers' website. You will need to do steps 1 and 2. After that, you can go to the API documentation pages t read about a specific API call. The page for Core Levels Get is here.

In the top right corner of each page is a Try It button. That allows you to enter parameters (if required) to see the data returned. This is a good way to verify that the application you created is working.

• At the top of any endpoint doc page, click Sign In. If prompted for credentials, use the same credentials you used to create the developer account and application. (Sometimes the page already knows which account to use. Sometimes it doesn't.)
• Click the Try It button.
• A dialog window will fly out from the right.
• A small pop-up window will appear. Click the Authorize button.
• If the API call requires parameters, enter them in the appropriate fields. (Core Levels Get is a good endpoint to start with, because it has no parameters.)
• Scroll to the bottom of the dialog and click the Send button.

Once you get a successful response, you can choose other endpoints from the menu on the left side of the page.