School
This API is used to provide access to school information such as users, academics, admissions, athletics, content, lists, and general school info.
GET
Users custom fields by role(s)
Returns a paginated collection of users with custom admin fields, limited to 100 users per page.
Includes both user custom fields and administration view only custom fields.
Use the last UserId number as the marker value to return the next set of results. For example: marker=101 will return the second set of results.
Requires at least one of the following roles in the Education Management system:
- Platform Manager
Request URL
Request parameters
| Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| base_role_ids | Property is required | string | Comma delimited list of base role IDs to get users for. |
| marker | integer | The user's ID to start at to return the next batch of data. Results will start with the next user in the result set. |
|
| field_ids | string | A comma seperated list of field Ids to return. When a list of |
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
Success
{
"count": 2,
"value": [
{
"id": 1,
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith",
"preferred_name": "Jonny",
"custom_fields": [
{
"data_type_id": 2,
"data_type": "int",
"data_type_description": "Check Box List",
"field_id": 0,
"field_name": "Enrollment Type",
"int_value": 1,
"last_modified_user_id": 12345,
"last_modified_date": "2018-08-30T12:00:00Z",
"status": true,
"unique": true,
"required": true,
"table_id": 1,
"table_value_id": 1,
"table_value": "one",
"table_value_abbreviation": "one"
},
{
"data_type_id": 9,
"data_type": "bit",
"data_type_description": "Yes/No",
"field_id": 0,
"field_name": "After Care",
"bit_value": true,
"last_modified_user_id": 12345,
"last_modified_date": "2018-08-30T12:00:00Z",
"status": true,
"unique": false,
"required": false
},
{
"data_type_id": 7,
"data_type": "nvarchar",
"data_type_description": "Text Input",
"field_id": 0,
"field_name": "Authorized Pickup",
"text_value": "GrandMother",
"last_modified_user_id": 12345,
"last_modified_date": "2018-08-30T12:00:00Z",
"status": false,
"unique": false,
"required": false
}
]
},
{
"id": 2,
"first_name": "Sally",
"last_name": "Johnson",
"preferred_name": "Sal",
"custom_fields": [
{
"data_type_id": 7,
"data_type": "nvarchar",
"data_type_description": "Text Input",
"field_id": 0,
"field_name": "Authorized Pickup",
"text_value": "Father",
"last_modified_user_id": 12345,
"last_modified_date": "2018-08-30T12:00:00Z",
"status": false,
"unique": false,
"required": false
}
]
}
]
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"count": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The number of items in the collection",
"format": "int32",
"readOnly": true
},
"next_link": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For paginated responses, the URI for the next page of results",
"nullable": true
},
"value": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "User Id",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"first_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The first name of a user",
"nullable": true
},
"last_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The last name of a user",
"nullable": true
},
"preferred_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Preferred Name",
"nullable": true
},
"custom_fields": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Id",
"nullable": true
},
"data_type_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Data Type Id",
"format": "int32"
},
"data_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Data Type",
"nullable": true
},
"data_type_description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Data Type Description",
"nullable": true
},
"field_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The custom field Id",
"format": "int32"
},
"field_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Field Name",
"nullable": true
},
"bit_value": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Bit Value",
"nullable": true
},
"int_value": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Int Value",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"decimal_value": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Decimal Value",
"format": "float",
"nullable": true
},
"text_value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Text Value",
"nullable": true
},
"date_value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Date Value",
"format": "date-time",
"nullable": true
},
"last_modified_user_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Last Modified User Id",
"format": "int32"
},
"last_modified_date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Last Modified Date",
"format": "date-time"
},
"status": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Status"
},
"unique": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Unique"
},
"required": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Required"
},
"table_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Table Id",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"table_value_id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Table Value Id",
"format": "int32",
"nullable": true
},
"table_value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Table Value",
"nullable": true
},
"table_value_abbreviation": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Table Value Abbreviation",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Custom Field"
},
"description": "Custom Fields",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "UserAdminCustomField"
},
"description": "The set of items included in the response. This may be a subset of the items in the collection",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "A Collection"
}Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}?marker={integer}&field_ids={string}"
-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}");
// Request parameters
queryString["marker"] = "{integer}";
queryString["field_ids"] = "{string}";
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}&" + 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/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}");
builder.setParameter("marker", "{integer}");
builder.setParameter("field_ids", "{string}");
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
"marker": "{integer}",
"field_ids": "{string}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}&" + $.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/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"marker={integer}",
@"field_ids={string}",
];
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/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'marker' => '{integer}',
'field_ids' => '{string}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($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({
# Request parameters
'marker': '{integer}',
'field_ids': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}&%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({
# Request parameters
'marker': '{integer}',
'field_ids': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}&%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/school/v1/users/customfields?base_role_ids={base_role_ids}')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'marker' => '{integer}',
'field_ids' => '{string}'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
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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