Rest - Contacts - Staff

Purpose

TUsed for creating, editing and deleting Staff from the Views system.

Base URL

https://app.viewsapp.net/api/restful/contacts/staff

Schema

https://app.viewsapp.net/api/restful/contacts/staff/schema(.xml|.json|.xsd)

Creating a staff record

Once you have created your data file, you can send it using the following:

curl --url <Base URL> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml -X POST -d "<xml>"

If there is a problem with creating that record, you will get a response containing all the errors, plus a copy of the translated data you supplied.

If the record was created successfully, the service will return a complete reocrd for the newly created record if the attribute id set as the newly created id.

Fetching a staff record

curl --url <Base URL>/<id> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml

This will return an xml file similar to this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<staff id="100001">
   <Nickname></Nickname>
   <Forename>John</Forename>
   <Surname>Smith</Surname>
   ...
   <Created>2011-05-09 10:26:09</Created>
   <CreatedBy>a.user</CreatedBy>
   <Updated>2011-05-09 10:26:09</Updated>
   <UpdatedBy>a.user</UpdatedBy>
   <Archived>0000-00-00 00:00:00</Archived>
   <ArchivedBy></ArchivedBy>
   <Type>1</Type>
   <PersonID>100001</PersonID>
   <TypeName>staff</TypeName>
</staff>

Fetching multiple staff records in one call

It is possible to use the search endpoint to retrieve multiple records

curl --url <Base URL>/search?PersonID[]=xxx&PersonID[]=xxx&PersonID[]=xxx& -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml

Depending on how many you are fetching, you may need to use POST rather than GET

Searching for a staff record

curl --url <Base URL>/search?q=<query> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml

query - This is a text string to use to search for in the staff records

You can search for any field for a specific value by setting the field as a parameter. Please refer to the schema for field names.

There are also a series of fields that you use -from and -to modifiers to express a range:

DateOfBirth - yyyy-mm-dd
Age - int (Please note that this is in days)
Created - yyyy-mm-dd
Updated - yyyy-mm-dd
Archived - yyyy-mm-dd

Searching for staff that have volunteered

This can be achieved by adding hasvolunteeres to the search method as so:

curl --url <Base URL>/search?hasvoluteered&q=<query> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml

The default is to filter the results to those that have volunteering records, however you can negate the search results by setting this parameter to one of the following values:

0
no
false

For example:

curl --url <Base URL>/search?hasvoluteered&q=<query> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml

Updating a staff record

curl --url <Base URL>/<id> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml -X PUT -d "<xml>"

id - The ID of the staff

The XML should be in the same format as the create XML. However, you only need to supply fields that you wish to update. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<staff id="100001">
   <Forename>Jane</Forename>
   <Surname>Smith</Surname>
</staff>

The above would result in updating staff 1000001's Forename and Surname values

Archiving a staff record

curl --url <Base URL>/<id>/archive -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml -X PUT -d '<status>1</status>'

id - The ID of the staff record

This will set the archive flag on a staff record. If you set the status to 0, then it will remove the archive flag.

Deleting a staff record

curl --url <Base URL>/<id> -u<username>:<password> -H Content-Type:text/xml -X DELETE

id - The ID of the staff

This should be used with great care as it will permenently delete a staff record.