Today when I receive a call, I get:
{"call_state":"PENDING","call_to":"client:test123","call_from":"client:test321","call_sid":"CA45af5dadsad3e699b9cb8d9"}
To not display test123, at the moment that I receive the event I search in my database the specific ID (123) and then I give to the user the right name.
That said, I would like to know if there's another way to add more information at the Client Identifiers avoiding the database search.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can't add more information in that request, however you could make your Client ID more useful.
You want your client identifier to be unique, and I assume the names you want to display aren't necessarily. So, if you make the client identifier something like "#{id}-#{username}" it will be unique as it contains the ID, but you could split the string on "-" and use the username to display to your user.
Let me know if that helps at all.
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I am working on developing an integration between EventBrite and a CRM platform. In order to sync data back to the CRM platform I would like to pass a query string variable of the customer id to the EventBrite event url and have that data passed back to me when I query the API. Is this possible? If so is there documentation on what query string variables are available?
Unfortunately, there isn't an endpoint right now that supports this.
I would assume that you'd want to pass an email address as a unique identifier, and see all the associated tickets/registrations with that attendee.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll add this to our backlog, but it isn't something on our roadmap.
We have one client having two account numbers and single trading partner id. Now
the client sends PO(s) through VAN (Value added Network),
My Question: Is there any way to identify for which
account number's PO is received?
Our Van process is identifying the PO on the basis of Trading Partner ID.
We need to sort the PO(s) according to account number.
The N104 would be a good way to do it. Most of the time, the N104 would designate store location, which you would cross-reference in your application to your account number.
A REF02 could also work, but the N104 was really made for this.
yes, that can be problematic.
check andrew's answer for this, maybe other options:
- GS02 (sender)
- I one had to check the items numbers to find out the right accountID.
Check why the edi-partner has 2 accounts. This often gives a good clue on how to handle this.
And check if it is still needed ;-))
I have a very simple Twilio setup for my company as our phone system. I've one specific problem: at the moment, anyone can use any of the numbers that have been associated with the company on the site for calling out. So Bob might accidentally use Alice's number, and that's unfortunate.
How do I change that? I would like to be able to set it so that each non-administrator user can only use one phone number for calling out, specifically the number associated with their user or device.
You could use subaccounts:
http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/subaccounts
Alternatively, enforce the extra Caller ID logic in your own application and refuse calls if they don't match the correct params.
I am working w/ the Event Brite API and I have a need that I am trying to figure out the best approach for. Right now, I have an event that people will be registering for. At the final step of the registration process, I need to ask them some questions that are specific to my event. Sadly, these questions are data-driven from my website, so I am unable to use the packaged surveys w/ Event Bright.
In a perfect world, I would use the basic flow detailed in the Website Workflow of the EB documentation, ending upon the "3rd Party Next Steps" step (redirect method).
http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/workflows/
Upon landing on that page, I would like to be able to access the order data that we just created in order to update my database and to send emails to each person who purchased a seat. This email would contain the information needed to kick off the survey portion of my registration process.
Is this possible in the current API? Does the redirect post any data back to the 3rd party site? I saw a few SO posts that gave a few keywords that could be included in the redirect URL (is there a comprehensive list?). If so, is there a way to use that data to look up order information for that order only?
Right now, my only other alternative is to set up a polling service that would pull EB API data, check for new values, and then kick off the process on intervals. This would be pretty noisy for all parties involved, create delay for my attendees, and I would like to avoid it if possible. Thoughts?
Thanks!
Here are the full set of parameters which we support after an attendee places an order:
http://yoursite.com/?eid=$event_id&attid=$attendee_id&oid=$order_id
It's possible that order_id and attendee_id would not be a numeric value, in which case it would return a value of "unknown." You'll always have the event_id though.
If you want to get order-specific data after redirecting an attendee to your site, you can using the event_list_attendees method, along with the modified_after parameter. You'll still have to look through the result set for the new order_id, but the result set will be much smaller and easier to navigate. You can get more information here: http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/events/event_list_attendees/
You can pass the order_id in your redirect URL in order to solve this.
When you define a redirect URL, Evenbrite will automatically swap in the order_id value in place of the string "$order_id".
http://your3rdpartywebsite.com/welcome_back/?order_id=$order_id
or:
http://your3rdpartywebsite.com/welcome_back/$order_id/
When the user completes their transaction, they will be redirected to your external site, as shown here: /http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/workflows/
When your post-transaction landing page is loaded, grab the order_id from the request URL, and call the event_list_attendees API method to find the order information in the response.
i have a order catalogue web site and i want to create a REST API so people can create their own apps and Add an Order or Update an existing order:
Lets say an order has:
OrderId
Product
Quantity
ShippingType
So i need some API to allow someone to send in a new order (orderid would be blank as that would be in the response).
How do you deal with passing in items like Product or Shipping type. These are tables in my db and are keyed off their own specific primary key id. Should the NewOrder API ask for a string name for these fields, should it ask for the id. If it asked for the ID, that would assume they would have to call the GiveMeProductList() method upfront (which gives you the name and id of all product as a dataset).
What is the standard for dealing with this?
Martin Fowler has a good post about the steps toward the glory of REST that you might find useful to come up with REST API.
The media type that I use for sending this information to the server can handle both scenarios, Id and Code/Name. If the user enters the product code manually then I send up the code, if the user asks to pick from a list then I provide the list and send back the Id.