Gift List by Constituent via Gift API

Bob Rowe
Bob Rowe
Second Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant
in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® APIs

I am simply looking to pull a list of Gifts by constituent id. The Gift API indicates this should be doable with this built URI

but result is always an empty array even when I have verified via RENXT the constituentId and the fact they have a gift.

Any suggestions?

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  • Ben Lambert
    Ben Lambert
    Ninth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant

    @Bob Rowe One thing to check is to make sure you're using the constituent “system record ID” and not the “user-defined constituent ID”. You can get the system record ID from the address bar in the browser (so in your example, do you see 111 in the address bar when you navigate to a constituent record in RENXT like this:

    https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/constituent/records/111?svcid=renxt&envid=YOURENVIRONMENTID

  • Bob Rowe
    Bob Rowe
    Second Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant

    @Ben Lambert

    Thanks… I figured that out after some experimentation.

    Also, any insights into the differences between.

    “Constituent Id” - User Defined
    “System Id” - Internal Unique Identifier
    “Lookup Id” - ??
    “Integration Id” - ?? (assume with your own 3rd Party DB/system)

    Seems like a lot to keep track of.

  • Ben Lambert
    Ben Lambert
    Ninth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant

    @Bob Rowe Thanks for the feedback, we know this is a confusing aspect of the developer program - these are concepts that have long histories and many reasons why they are named what they are, and it's difficult to find the right language to use for all audiences (customers, end-users, developers, citizen developers, etc.).

    We have some documentation that might be useful to read here:

    https://docs.blackbaud.com/microsoft-connectors-docs/microsoft-power-platform/basics/key-concepts

    Most of that is oriented towards Power Platform users but some of the concepts aren't exclusive to that audience and we might consider moving some content into the developer portal docs.

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