Ability to add Education Subjects through the API

ESO Team
ESO Team
Name Dropper Facilitator 1
in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® APIs

Hello,

I've been using the Raiser's Edge Constituent API with the goal of being able to create a brand new constituent (this is done), and creating a new education (here's the trouble). As I was working through it, I haven't found a way to add a new subject, because of this error:

The 'Major/Minor' and 'Subject of Study (For the UK only)' tables do not contain an active entry named 'My Amazing Test Subject'.

And that call was made POSTing to constituent/v1/educations. If I use an existing subject, I have no doubt the call would succeed.

I can get the list of subjects through constituent/v1/educations/subjects, but there doesn't seem to be a way to POST, only GET. I've been browsing through all the endpoints, and nothing is really standing out. What should I be looking for?

Comments

  • Alex Wong
    Alex Wong Community All-Star
    Ninth Anniversary Kudos 5 Facilitator 3 Raiser's Edge NXT Fall 2025 Product Update Briefing Badge

    @ESO Team
    Subjects is table entries in the Major/Minor table. To add to this code table, you need to use the code table endpoint to add table entry.

    https://developer.sky.blackbaud.com/api#api=nxt-data-integration&operation=CreateTableEntry

    which you need to know the code table id for Major/Minor, go to RE NXT > Settings > Table and select the Major/Minor table and look at the URL for the code table id.

    d543bc88c1eb656817efdaf212709459-huge-im

    In my case, code table id is 5079, since this is a default code table, not user created code table, yours is likely the same 5079, but verify first.

  • ESO Team
    ESO Team
    Name Dropper Facilitator 1

    Thank you very much @Alex Wong! Confirmed 5079 for us as well. This is exactly what I needed. I got a bit too tunnel visioned focusing on the Constituent endpoints so much I forgot to consider the others.

    Again, thank you!

Categories