Consolidate Info from Button Add-in

David Stevens

Hi everyone,

We're working on our first implementation with the SKY add-ins for the adaptive cards and buttons. We know we can have the constituent id sent when a user presses a button on the constituent and use that to make calls to the SKY API but are there more options to send without needing to do additional calls?

Alex Wong

@David Stevens
your questions is not making a lot of sense to me to help, so let me see if i can break it down a bit.

• “we know we can have the constituent id sent when a user presses a button on the constituent"
  • more specifically, you can create an “addin action” which is going under the “Add-in” button “section” of a constituent page (or any page that allow addin), and when that button is clicked, the underlying web application will be called and given the constituent system record id (or system record id of the record type where the addin is added)
  • but this has nothing to do with adaptive card
  • the passed in constituent record id is not going to allow you to make SKY API, to make SKY API calls, you need authorization token and subscription key. the constituent record id just allow your web application to know which constituent the button is clicked from so you are more likely going to make SKY API relevent to this constituent
  • If you are planning to use Power Automate that has official Blackbaud connector, then you don't need to worry about subscription key/authorization token, otherwise, you will need to manage getting that token on your own app
• “but are there more option to send without needing to do additional calls?”
  • confusing question, so instead of trying to understand this, how about we start with what are you trying to create/do

David Stevens

@Alex Wong Hi Alex,

Sorry for the confusion on this. We're working with another vendor so I'm a little slow on all of this. We are using Power Automate like you mentioned so we aren't worrying about the authorization. We're mostly wanting to know if, when the add-in button on the record is clicked, if the only information that gets passed is that system record id.

Alex Wong

when the add-in button on the record is clicked, if the only information that gets passed is that system record id.

Yes only the system record id

Ben Lambert

Hi David, Alex is correct about the system record ID - that is the only piece of “context” that is made available to button add-ins on the constituent page. In case it helps, here is the documentation that lists the specific context values made available for each extension point:

https://developer.blackbaud.com/skyapi/docs/addins/concepts/extension-points