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Create Activity
Service Applications
If you are running a service application executing as the default AffinityLive system user, the visibility field will be defaulted to 'all'. Otherwise, the default is 'private'.
Create a new activity
Resource URLÂ
POST /activities
Parameters
Table of allowed parameters. Underlined parameters are required.
subject | string | Activity's subject that will appear in the title of the activity. |
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body | string | The content of the activity. |
against_id | unsigned | The id of the against_table object, the activity is linked against. This will default to the current user's id. |
against_type | string | The object the activity is linked against. This can be: affiliation, annex, campaign, account_invoice, campaign_action, component, contract, contract_period, deployment, event, invoice, issue, job, membership, prospect, request, task or staff. This will default to staff. |
owner_type | string | The activity can be owned by a staff member or an affiliation. |
owner_id | unsigned | Owner's id. i.e, the staff or affiliation id of owner_table . |
medium | string | Type of activity to create. This can be: note, meeting, report, email, call, postal, fax or sms. This will default to note. |
visibility | string | This can be: all, confidential or private. This will default to private. |
details | string | Additional details assigned to an activity. For meetings and postals this is used to store the location/address. For calls this is used to store the number. |
priority_id | unsigned | Â |
class_id | unsigned | Â |
thread_id | unsigned | Â |
task_id | unsigned | Â |
parent_id | unsigned | Another activity ID |
date_started | unix ts | Seconds since UTC |
date_due | unix ts | Seconds since UTC |
date_ended | unix ts | Seconds since UTC |
message_id | string | Custom message id given to the activity. |
nonbillable | unsigned | Amount of non-billable time ("Logged time") to log against the activity. Requires owner_type of "staff" and an owner_id |
billable | unsigned | Amount of billable time to log against the activity. Note. This field is only for activities against an issue, job, milestone, contract or period. Please use the nonbillable ("logged time") parameter for any other against types. Requires owner_type of "staff" and an owner_id |
to | associative array | An associative array of staff, affiliations and emails (Requires JSON content type, application/js). For meetings this can also be labelled "attendees" and "including" for calls. |
cc | associative array | An associative array of staff, affiliations and emails (Requires JSON content type, application/js). |
bcc | associative array | An associative array of staff, affiliations and emails (Requires JSON content type, application/js). |
send_invites | boolean | For meetings you can enable to send invites. Defaults to false, for now invites (Only applicable when "medium" is "meeting"). |
file | file | A file you would like to add as an attachment to the new activity (Requires "multi-part/form-data") |
_fields | string | Allows you to specify optional fields and linked objects to include in the response, if successful. |
Logging time
The billable and nonbillable attributes require that you supply a staff owner (owner_type and owner_id) otherwise no time allocation is created against the new activity. i.e, the user who the time belongs to.
Logging activity against a task
To log an activity against a task, you should pass in the task's against_id and against_type as the new activity's against_id and against_type. Essentially you are creating an activity against the object the task is against.
Including to, cc and bcc interactions
Creating an activity including interactions is a simple JSON request. It supports to, cc and bcc. Interaction owners staff, affiliations and general emails. e.g,
curl -XPOST https://yourdeployment.api.affinitylive.com/api/v0/activities -d{ ... "to": { "staff": [10] }, "cc": { "affiliation": [13,14] }, "bcc": { "emails": "bcc-recipient@affinitylive.com" } }
Would create an activity to staff with id 10, cc'ing affiliations 13 and 14 and bcc'ing the email recipient "bcc-recipient@affinitylive.com".
Handling the response
Please see the GET endpoint for handling the response.Â