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Opportunities - Original Ask Amt/Date - SKY API

Luis Puesan

Hi everyone,

Learning more about using SKY API and while messing around calling values from the SKY Developer Test database, I found some constituents with opportunities and added my own opportunities to a constituent.

The thing is, via the SKY API you can call upon the values 'original ask'[original_ask_amount] and 'original ask date'[original_ask_date] which I assume would auto-populate with the very first values that an opportunity ever gets.

When I called for those values, I can see everything else in an opportunity via the API, except those two fields, the values are always absent. Are those values naturally supposed to be blank, and the assumption is that we are supposed to 'WRITE' into that value so that the value is stored in the backend of a RE NXT environment?

The RE NXT web view opportunity edit dialog exposes Ask amount and Ask date but no field for original ask. If the RE NXT never writes it, and the field is API-only, it would explain why the values are blank for all the test records I used.

BTW I want to shoutout that the SKY API is such a powerful tool, really great documentation too - kudos to the team that created it.

Tl;dr: Are [original_ask_amount] and [original_ask_date] API-write-only? In SKY API they come from OpportunityRead, OpportunityEdit, and OpportunityAdd

Edit: It is possible that this value only exists for migrations from other DBs, hence why would be empty if not migrating data.

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Jordan Wells

I have seen similar behavior with API fields that don’t have a direct equivalent in the RE NXT interface. My guess would be that original_ask_amount and original_ask_date are historical/API fields rather than values that RE NXT automatically populates when an opportunity is created. It would be interesting to know whether anyone has confirmed if they’re only populated during data migration or can be explicitly written through the SKY API. I would also be curious whether similar behavior occurs with other nonprofit data APIs, such as the Nonprofit Check Plus API and Charity API, where certain fields may depend on the source data available.

Luis Puesan

I will be testing tomorrow if we can write into it, but from the documentation it looks like we should be able to!

Dan Snyder

@Luis Puesan I am wondering if this is something off the test database? I have always known the Original Ask Amount/Date to be automatically added after the first entry and save. I just checked an opportunity that was created via Power Automate and has not been changed since it was entered and the Original Ask Amount (there was no ask date to sync) is listed in database view, web view, and displays when I use the try it on the get opportunity page.

You cannot write a value to those two fields that I am aware of so not something you would need to do.

Hope I understood your question and hope you get a solution soon. @Todd Yellin maybe something you might have some insight into?

Luis Puesan

@Jordan Wells @Dan Snyder

Reporting back that I was able to successfully write into those values:

Although, the weird thing is that once I edited that opportunity in webview (I changed the expected ask amount up by 5 dollars and modified the date added by 1 day)

It removed the values I manually added via SKY API. Which then seems pointless to be able to GET/PATCH that value, if it gets overwritten by any edits on the opportunity? Opportunities can be slightly changed constantly (esp the status)

Maybe something that isn't intended? And it isn't just based on the SKY Dev Database - these are APIs that exist for all RE NXT customers that use SKY API per my understanding.

Alex Wong

Great post, exposing how gap in RE NXT, SKY API, and dbview can misalign. lol

hope to bring some clarity:

original ask amount and date was originally not available via SKY API nor RE NXT webview directly. Looking at changed log in SKY API

You can see that this is added only since 6/22/2026.

The functionality of seeing and editing Original Ask Date/Amount is added now (not sure since when) to RE NXT webivew:

This functionality always been available in the dbview Proposal:

So to "complete" the full functionality of RE NXT webview, Blackbaud added this new few months ago.

Alex Wong

Confirming that I am seeing the same thing. You can update the original ask date/amount in dbview, webview or API PATCH, it does not matter, the moment you "save" (even without editing anything from ask/expected/funded date/amount) the editing panel in webview, the original ask date/amount is deleted.

This is a bug, You will want to report this to Blackbaud Support.

@Erik Leaver tagging you on a bug to help on follow up. Though this isn't an API bug. This is a Webview Bug.

Luis Puesan

Thank you as per usual Alex for the detailed reply! I didn't know about that spot in webview to manually add it and I can't access database view currently at my new role unfortunately

Safe to assume then that the reason the value gets deleted when editing anything on an opportunity is most likely an oversight from the SKY API team?

I discovered another bug like the above but with the lists_v2 API, any ideas as to who/how I can report it?

Alex Wong

I tested create opportunity vis API and dbview, original amount/date is filled in automatically in both case. You can write value to these 2 fields via PATCH (edit) and POST (create) opportunity now. Useful in some sense, however, until Blackbaud fix the bug that causes these 2 fields to be reset/deleted though.

Alex Wong

Be careful when you report to Blackbaud Support, as they will quickly send you to Community for API support. When you report this to support.blackbuad.com, make sure you don't say it's an oversight from SKY API team, the bug is not with API, it is with RE NXT webview functionality (even though there's a chance that underneath the hood, RE NXT calls SKY APIs). So you want to present the bug as a RE NXT webview bug without mentioning API.

if you discover additional API bug, you can post in Community first to gather other's comment, otherwise, you can report the bug to Blackbaud Support directly too.

Erik Leaver

I'm always happy to help with monitoring & helping make sure support cases around APIs are triaged appropriately. Can tag me with the case number in community.