General Ledger
This API is used to manage the general ledger, including accounts, projects, and journal entries. This API has a maximum request size limit of 8mb.
Request URL
Request parameters
| Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| set_id | Property is required | integer | The transaction distribution set identifier. |
Request headers
| Header | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bb-Api-Subscription-Key | Property is required | string | Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile. |
| Authorization | Property is required | string | OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code. |
Response 200 OK
Returned when the operation is successful. The response body contains the specified transaction distribution set.
{
"set_id": 6,
"name": "Distribution EP",
"line_items": [
{
"percent": 34,
"line_number": 1,
"project_id": 23,
"transaction_code_values": [
{
"name": "Grants",
"value": "Helping Hands",
"id": 4
},
{
"name": "Spendable/Non-Spendable",
"value": "Non-Spendable",
"id": 0
},
{
"name": "Performance",
"value": null,
"id": 0
},
{
"name": "The Raiser's Edge",
"value": null,
"id": 0
},
{
"name": null,
"value": null,
"id": 0
}
],
"account_class": "Unrestricted Net Assets"
},
{
"percent": 66,
"line_number": 2,
"project_id": 24,
"transaction_code_values": [
{
"name": "Grants",
"value": "Helping Hands",
"id": 4
},
{
"name": "Spendable/Non-Spendable",
"value": "Spendable",
"id": 0
},
{
"name": "Performance",
"value": null,
"id": 0
},
{
"name": "The Raiser's Edge",
"value": null,
"id": 0
},
{
"name": null,
"value": null,
"id": 0
}
],
"account_class": "Unrestricted Net Assets"
}
]
}{
"description": "Transaction distribution set.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"set_id": {
"format": "int32",
"description": "The identifier for the transaction distribution set.",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Set id"
},
"name": {
"description": "The name of the transaction distribution set.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Name"
},
"line_items": {
"description": "The project line items for the transaction distribution set.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"description": "Distribution set project line item.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"percent": {
"format": "double",
"description": "The pecentage the distribution the line item represents.",
"type": "number",
"x-ms-summary": "Percent"
},
"line_number": {
"format": "int32",
"description": "The line number for the line item.",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Line number"
},
"project_id": {
"format": "int32",
"description": "The identifier of the project for the line item.",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Project id"
},
"transaction_code_values": {
"description": "The transaction code values for the line item.",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"description": "Transaction code value",
"required": [
"value",
"id"
],
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"description": "The transaction code name.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Name"
},
"value": {
"description": "The transaction code value.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Value"
},
"id": {
"format": "int32",
"description": "The transaction code value id.",
"type": "integer",
"x-ms-summary": "Id"
},
"inactive": {
"description": "Indicate if record is inactive or not.",
"type": "boolean",
"x-ms-summary": "Inactive"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Transaction code value",
"x-ms-summary": "Transaction code value"
},
"x-ms-summary": "Transaction code values"
},
"account_class": {
"description": "The class of the account for the line item.",
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Account class"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Distribution set project line item",
"x-ms-summary": "Distribution set project line item"
},
"x-ms-summary": "Line items"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Transaction distribution set",
"x-ms-summary": "Transaction distribution set"
}Response 400 Bad Request
Returned when the request is not in the correct format.
{
"Error": "Invalid Request",
"Details": [
"The value 'fake' is not valid for transaction_status."
],
"ErrorPath": null
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Error": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error"
},
"Details": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"x-ms-summary": "Details"
},
"ErrorPath": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error path"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Domain error message",
"x-ms-summary": "Domain error message"
}Response 403 Forbidden
Returned when the user does not have permission to view transaction distribution sets.
{
"error": "The specified record could not be found. The record has either been deleted or you do not have rights to view it."
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Error": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Basic error message",
"x-ms-summary": "Basic error message"
}Response 404 Not Found
Returned when the specified transaction distribution set could not be found.
{
"error": "The specified record could not be found. The record has either been deleted or you do not have rights to view it."
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Error": {
"type": "string",
"x-ms-summary": "Error"
}
},
"x-display-name": "Basic error message",
"x-ms-summary": "Basic error message"
}Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
[_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/generalledger/v1/distributionsets/transaction/{set_id}')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
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