Fellowship One: Developer Forum

Can I “Post Attendance” via the API

2011-12-21T21:25:28-06:00

I’m playing around with ideas for how i can help our church better ulitize F1. I would like to be able to ‘Post Attendnace’ from an iPhone/iPad. I’m fine with the iOS side of things but can’t see anywhere in the API for being able to post attendance.

Its kind of like a check-in feature but not keeping track of ‘live’ data and no check-out. Simply attendance.

Looking forward to a positive answer

Shared Sample Code—PHP OAuth + cURL + JSON

2012-01-11T13:29:54-06:00

Attached is zip package with sample code to jump start your PHP 5 2nd party implementation with F1. Package requires PHP 5 with cURL enabled. The package includes 3 files (see below) that include an example, FellowshipOne PHP Class helper and the standard PHP OAuth class (unmodified). The FellowshopOne helper class currently implements 2nd party login and a few examples of pulling/searching/creating data. I’ll post updates as developed. Should be more than enough to jump start your PHP 5 F1 project.

EDIT: Posted revised version (f1-2nd-party-sample-v4.zip)
EDIT: Posted revised version (f1-2ndparty-php5-sample-v5.zip)
EDIT: Posted revised version (f1-2ndparty-php5-sample-v6.zip)

Cheers!

Best way to use API to review account/routing association with individual/household id

2011-12-26T15:06:55-06:00

Hi,

As we have been using the giving portions of F1, we have found the need to review our entries. One of the items we feel we need to review is the association between accounts/routing to household/individual ids. By this, I mean what I see conceptually as the table used in F1 to do this matching which we would have originally communicated to F1 by the giving/contributions/unmatched tab in the F1 portal.

Today, we have an API that uses CSV reports available from the report facility to filter on entries over a particular date range and display the latest or all ACH or check images associated with a household or individual depending on some filters. But, the basic knowledge we extract from these reports is an association between account/routing to household/individual ids for a range of receipts.

I’m not sure of the exact scheme used in F1 to manage this, but I assume the starting point is available with what are the accounts pieces of the giving API http://developer.fellowshipone.com/docs/giving/v1/Accounts.help#search

Assuming this to be the case (we’d need to try out or have some explanation), having access to the Account Search method would greatly simplify our process; we would be able to do the auditing using just API calls without having to run and parse CSV reports.

Could availability of this method be considered for use by 2nd party consumer keys so that it could be used by applications written outside of Fellowship One development? Or is there an alternate way to efficiently achieve this sort of functionality -e.g. reviewing account/routing association with individual/households?

Thanks,

Gary Peterson

So much API goodness - check out all the new realms!

2011-11-23T11:05:58-06:00

Our developer team at Fellowship Tech is AWESOME! They have cranked out so much API goodness this year. In case you hadn’t heard yet, take a look at all that that has been released into production in our API’s 2nd year of existence:

Released March, 2011: API GIVING REALM
The dev team opened up all kinds of resources in this realm for you to build out your custom apps with!

Released May, 2011: API GROUPS AND EVENTS REALMS
Wow - two huge releases in one shot! With the groups realm, churches or vendors can build some awesome custom Groups 2.0 functionality and the events realm opens up events that are associated with a group. The sky is the limit with what you can build with these releases!

Released May 2011: API UPDATE - CREATE OR UPDATE AN IMAGE FROM THE PEOPLE REALM
Can anyone say customized Fellowship One Directory embedded in your church website? How about a profile editor allowing your people to change their own photos?

We would love to hear how your church is using our API! Let us know - you may inspire someone!

API Roadmap / inFellowship

2011-02-07T16:25:43-06:00

I was wondering if we could get an update on the API roadmap, specifically as it pertains to inFellowship. My church was getting ready to roll-out a single sign-on solution that we put together with the REST API and DE, but with the changes to the weblink log-ins a few months back we’re in limbo. We want to offer some additional content to users authenticated to our website, but don’t want to make them go to a completely separate system to do the things that are being added to inFellowship (especially since the roadmap updates indicate that WebLink is being phased out completely).

Is/will there be a way to create inFellowship log-ins from either of the APIs? Will there be a way to call directly into parts of inFellowship by providing an authentication token, similar to what we can do with WebLink today?

can OAuth suppurt this?

2010-03-12T19:34:15-06:00

I’m still just digging in to documentation but before I keep stumbling through the documentation I figured I would just ask and try to find out if OAuth can support what I’m aiming at. I don’t care much (maybe at all) to authenticate a user while they are in the system. I want my system to be authenticated so that if a user changes their information, or an administrator changes their information I can update the fellowship one database with the information. Also if the information is updated in fellowship one a cron can update my system. Is this possible or is individual authentication the only method of relating to this OAuth stuff.

Thanks,
Matt

New to this API stuff

2011-11-30T13:15:37-06:00

Can someone show me how they can use the API to integrate things like Online Giving, Groups 2.0 (ie inFellowship stuff), volunteer pipeline, people etc into our church website so that users don’t have to go off site and we can retain our “look and feel” of our site in the whole experience while users either Give, or search Groups or other people etc?

We are a wordpress site but can use whatever Linux base we need.

Thanks

Bill

Demo source code for beginners?

2010-02-26T18:26:56-06:00

I’m trying to match up a list of people’s names that I have in my PHP script, with their records in F1, and set an attribute in their record if I find them. I have an attendee’s first and last names, their date of birth, and gender. If I can’t get an exact match I need to get a list of possible people so a staff member can manually check F1 and say which it is.

I am experienced in PHP, and have used APIs before (mainly via Curl), but am a bit lost on constructing the actual code to do this - i.e. I understand separate bits of this thing, e.g. making an API call (I think), and that I need the F1 OAuth library (which I downloaded), but not sure how to put it all together in a single working bit of code. Does anyone have anything like that at all please, even if it’s to do something else (that I could change the API calls on)? I see fragmented bits of code in some of the blog posts, but would LOVE a complete bit of code to do something like the above, or any complete code actually.

Also not quite clear on where the username and password come in (I have a key and secret). My software is not congregation-facing, it is just for internal staff who already have access to F1. Do I need an account on F1 and I use those credentials or is it something else?

Many thanks,
Alex

putting information driving me nuts

2010-03-20T13:00:56-06:00

I was hoping someone could help point where I’m going wrong putting information. I can get information fine but changing user information is not going as expected.

if i set up the api object such as the index file in the provided libraries then i set up a user object to change someone’s first name and set it I keep getting 400 as the status return.

Example

$requestBody->person->@id = person id
$requestBody->person->@householdID = household id
$requestBody->person->firstName = new first name
$requestBody->person->lastName = last name
$requestBody->person->householdMemberType->@id = householdMemberTypeid
$requestBody->person->status->@id = status id

If you assume a properly setup api object, is there a reason that this should not work?

$uri = $uri = AppConfig::$base_url . str_replace(’{id}’, $user->f1individualid, AppConfig::$f1_people_update) .’.json’;
$requestBody = $apiConsumer->putRequest($uri, json_encode($requestBody));

I have all the required fields according to the documentation and this just doesn’t seem to work to change the first name.

Online Giving with Fellowship One?

2010-03-22T13:22:19-06:00

I’m a newbie, so forgive me if this is too basic.

I am re-designing a church website for a friend and need to have a simple Online Giving form. I was hoping to sign up for the Developer site and see an “Apps” section where I could get either code and/or documentation. If this exists I’m not finding it.

So, how do I do an Online Giving form?

Thanks