Using Sky API to Create Inquiries

Dino Vandenheede
Dino Vandenheede
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I'm interested in creating new inquiry records using POSTs. I believe I need to create a user first and then create an admissions candidate using that user ID. Is this correct? Has anyone used the SKY API to generate inquiries instead of using the standard Blackbaud inquiry form? Any insights or examples would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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  • Stephen Boyle
    Stephen Boyle Blackbaud Employee
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    @Dino Vandenheede
    The operations you mention will create a Candidate in EMS, but not an Inquiry. An Inquiry exists prior to a candidate being created, though it contains candidate information. Processing Inquiries in EMS is one of the ways to create a candidate.

    That said, the API does not have the ability to POST inquiries today. As we announced in our PUBs, however, we are working on that capability as we speak and it should be available soon.

  • Dino Vandenheede
    Dino Vandenheede
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    @Stephen Boyle
    This is great to hear. Thank you for the update! If you need someone to do testing, I'm available.


  • Stephen Boyle
    Stephen Boyle Blackbaud Employee
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    @Dino Vandenheede
    The Inquiry (create) endpoint was recently released. It's the phase 1 version, so it only includes candidate, entering year and parent info. More info will get added to it over time. But if that is all you need, then this will work for you.

  • Stephen Boyle
    Stephen Boyle Blackbaud Employee
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    @Dino Vandenheede
    The Inquiry list (Get) was just released, and we will continue to add more data to the output of both the Post and the Get as we work on this area.

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