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1. • Dan LaRiviere
   • Topic created 15 years ago

   Is there any current documentation that defines the elements in the API response?
   
   For example:
   - What is the diff between "url" and "escapedurl" in the event node, and the "trackbackurl" and "substitutionUrl" in the meta node.
   
   -What is the difference between the events "startdate" and the "startdate" in the meta node. Also how does that relate to the "eventdate"?
   
   -Location vs locationname
   
   -summary vs description
   
   -what are the valid values for tag, splitMediaType, mediatType, category, assettypeid, participationCriteria
   
   -what are the assetids and assetNames referring to? How are they different from the eventId?
   
   Thanks,
   
   Dan

   Message edited by Dan LaRiviere 15 years ago

2. active Admin – 15 years ago

   Good question. Somebody else asked a similar question (http://developer.active.com/forum/read/66578), and this was my response:
   
   the following fields are redundant:
   
   locationName, eventState, eventZip
   
   You should use location, state and zip instead. url and trackbackurl can potentially have different values (the "url" might link to the event director's site, while the "trackbackurl" will link to ours). eventId and substitutionUrl are the same only for certain event types, for others they are different. I'd recommend using eventId to get the id for the event. "substitutionUrl" is an internal concept, where "baseUrl" + "substitutionUrl" = absoluteUrl (which is not a field in the response). I recommend ignoring substitutionUrl.
   
   We're working on a data dictionary for the response and hope to have that published within the next few weeks.