Rest - Work - Session Groups - Participants

Purpose

Used for administering participant registrations on session groups in the Views system.

Base URL

http://app.views.coop/api/restful/work/sessiongroups/<sid>/participants

• sid - This is the id of the session group

Note: If the Session Group has been archived, this API becomes read only.

Getting the list of participants

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

This will return a list of participants that are associated wit the session group, similar to the following:

<sessiongroup id="7">
    <participants>
        <participant id="123">
            <Name>Jane Smith</Name>
            <Type>1</Type>
            <Attended/>
            <FirstAttended/>
            <Nickname/>
            <Forename>Jane</Forename>
            <Surname>Smith</Surname>
            ...
            <EngagmentLevel>0</EngagmentLevel>
            <EngagmentLevelName>Not Set</EngagmentLevelName>
        </participant>
        <participant id="102">
            <Name>John Smith</Name>
            <Type>1</Type>
            <Attended/>
            <FirstAttended/>
            <Nickname/>
            <Forename>john</Forename>
            <Surname>Smith</Surname>
            ...
            <EngagmentLevel>0</EngagmentLevel>
            <EngagmentLevelName>Not Set
            </EngagmentLevelName>
        </participant>
    <participants>
</sessiongroup>

Note: If the Session Group is bookable, each participant record will also contain a booking object as well.

Adding participants to a session group

Adding participants to a non-bookable session group

You can add a single participant via the following:

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

• pid - The ID of the participant to add

You can also upload a a list of participants to add to the session register via the following URL

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

<participants>
    <participant>101162</participant>
    <participant>103124</participant>
    <participant>103413</participant>
</participants>

Adding participants to a bookable session groups

Due to financial information being required for bookable session groups the method of adding participants in slightly different.

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

<participant>
    <PersonID>100748</PersonID>
    <PaymentType>Debit Card</PaymentType>
    <PaymentAmount>20</PaymentAmount>
    <PaymentFee>2.50</PaymentFee>
    <PaymentReference>7002</PaymentReference>
    <Forename>Father</Forename>
    <Surname>Test</Surname>
    <Address1/>
    <Address2/>
    <Town/>
    <County/>
    <Postcode/>
    <Telephone/>
    <Email>test@test.com</Email>
</participant>

This will return errors on a fail or the full booking record on a successful submit.

The required fields are all required:

• PersonID - This is the ID of the participant
• PaymentType - One of the following value 'Cash', 'Cheque', 'Debit Card', 'Credit Card', 'Other'
• PaymentAmount - This is the amount paid

Removing participants from a session group

Removing participants from a non bookable session group

You can remove a single participant from a session group via the following:

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

• pid - The ID of the participant to add

You can also upload a a list of participants to remove from the session group via the following URL

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

<participants>
    <participant>101162</participant>
    <participant>103124</participant>
    <participant>103413</participant>
</participants>

Removing participants from a non bookable session group

You can only remove a single participant's booking from a session group via the following:

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

• pid - The ID of the participant to add

By default this will flag the participant as cancelled, but will not do anything with the financial side of the booking. To flag a refund was give or a credit note, you should pass the following:

<refundtype>Refund</refundtype>

or

<refundtype>Credit</refundtype>

This will result in the participants booking being completely being removed from the session group