The ABC's of Convio API's

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This is the PPT used at the 2008 Convio Summit.

Robert Kubarych

We need a user friendly way to query our own database and then create a group in C360 from the result set. Often times all the data attributes required for selecting the desired population for a group will not reside in C360. Is the Constituent API robust enough to be used by an application that will need to process a large result set and create a C360 group and also update a single C360 attribute for each member of the new group?

Bruce Keilin

Are you trying to do something like this:

1. Perform a query in your (non-Convio) database
2. Create a new group in Convio
3. Iterate over each record in the set returned in step 1 and
   1. add the person to the new group in Cons360
   2. change a Cons360 attribrute for the person

I think that would work. The only problem you would have is if the first query was against Cons360 (not your own DB) and the result set is very large (> 1000 records, I think.)

Hope that helps.