RE NXT Developer Version
I am wondering if anyone has heard of the RE Developer Version and is using it? Someone is mentioning to upgrade to this and use APIs however I thought we could use APIs using regular RE and RENXT. I am very confused.
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@Jenny Marquardt
Never heard of it, and almost certain it is miscommunication of sort. Where did you hear this or have reference to this?There are developer environment of RENXT that a developer can sign up for and use to develop application with, that might be what you are saying.
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@Alex Wong I am participating in a Pro Bono marathon to get help for our organization. It is someone who does not know RE. They looked on the web and researched how to use APIs and saw a Developer Version of RE. Told me we did not have this version. This did not sound correct to me so I decided to reach out to the Community.
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@Jenny Marquardt I'm with @Alex Wong. This sounds like a misunderstanding for certain. Or maybe they are talking about access to the SKY API. Regardless, was there something that this special version on RE was supposed to be able to do that you need and don't have access to?
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@Dariel Dixon Yeah, it must be a misunderstanding. Thanks for the confirmation. I am a brand new beginner with API and she is suggesting to use API.
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@Dariel Dixon and @Alex Wong we want to send a survey to donors and have those answers go back into RE. We want to add interests to our organization when signing up for our Newsletter and if possible add to NXT Donation forms. I am so new to this I have no idea how to begin or what APIs can do
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@Jenny Marquardt
There's a few ways you can do what you want, from simple to complex, from using default RE NXT capability to using various tools on the marketing to custom coding using API.- Use a form technology (i.e. microsoft form, survey monkey, etc) to collect response
- since you want the info to go into RE, then you need to ask for identifying questions (i.e. first name, last name, email/phone/address)
- download response from the form and import into RE
- You can use default RE import tool in database view, but that requires already have identified the constituent's ID, which can be easy or hard depending on your form collected data and your RE database cleaniness
- You can use a importing tool such as Import-o-matic, Importacular, etc that makes import easier (will help identify existing record with some matching algorithm and create new when not found)
- Use a form technology that allows for integration (i.e. microsoft form) and use SKY API to custom code the data into RE NXT
- each submission will trigger the integration (i.e. microsoft power automate platform) providing the submitted data directly
- in the automation, you will call Blackbaud's SKY API to do a search for constituent with the submitted data, and if found, add the response to the constituent as note, attribute (custom field), etc.
SKY API is free to use for all RE NXT customer, so there is no developer RE NXT that you need to be on, SKY API has some “limits” (i.e. 25K API calls per 24 hour rolling period and 10 API calls per second). Power Automate is free but not that useful when free, but a paid version of it is a few dollar a month for non-profit. Power Automate is a “low” code option, which is quite nice for most of what you need done.
If you don't want to learn or use power automate, you can develop your own custom webapp as well using various server side coding technology (i.e. JSP, ASP.NET, Python, etc)
4 - Use a form technology (i.e. microsoft form, survey monkey, etc) to collect response
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@Alex Wong thank you so very much for outlining this for me. It is exactly what I need to decide what to do. I appreciate you!
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