Create Groups - Security Category ID

Jim Hart · April 2016

In the REST API documentation, it says that you can specify the Security Category ID when creating a group:

This method requires a Group Name and a Group Type, and can optionally accept a Group Description and Security Category ID, and will create a new static group in Luminate Online.

http://open.convio.com/api/?referrer=https://www.google.com/#group_api.createGroup_method.html

However, the name of the parameter isn't listed. I have tried countless different parameter names with no luck; the security category doesn't get set when creating a group.

What is the correct parameter name for security category when creating a group?

Thank you,

Jim Hart

Omatic Software

Brian Mucha · April 2016

What did you try?

I see that SecurityCategoryId is a field on the Group type in WebServices docs and in the WSDL for Group.

https://webservices.cluster3.convio.net/1.0/ABC/wsdl

When filtering on different gets it expects list_category_id, so you might try a few underscore variations like category_id.

The returned data for a getGroup shows it as securityCategory.id

Jim Hart · April 2016

Hi Brian,

I tried about 50 different parameter names including these:

security_group_id

security_category_id

security_id

category_id

cat_id

catid

categoryid

securitycategoryid

securitygroup

securitycategory

category

security_group

security_category

sec_cat_id

list_category_id

create_category_id

I even tried passing in the id (i.e. 1) as well as the display name (i.e. General) with no luck.

Either I missed a permutation of security, category, id and underscores or it's missing from the REST API for creating groups.

I haven't tried a period seperator so I'll give that a try.

(EDIT: no luck with periods either)

Thanks!

Jim Hart

Brian Mucha · April 2016

If Noah Cooper doesn't weigh in, you might try reaching out to him. He'll know. He's here once in a while, or you can contact him from his github page. https://github.com/noahcooper

Otherwise if you open a ticket an engineer would probably know, but that could take a while.

Post what you find out!

Noah Cooper · April 2016

The parameter is actually group_security_category_id. I'll open a bug about getting that documented!

Jim Hart · April 2016

Thanks Noah, group_security_category_id worked!

Brian Mucha · May 2016

Is there a trick we could use to discover these on our own? There's listUserFields, but nothing similar for the other types.

Noah Cooper · May 2016

There isn't unfortunately. I actually only knew because I looked at the underlying Java code used by this method.

Colleen Gutierrez · July 2016

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I'm not sure why that parameter was missed from the API docs since they are built from the code.

The help was updated to add this parameter: http://open.convio.com/api/apidoc/reference/methods/createGroup_method.html

Thanks!

Create Groups - Security Category ID

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