Questions?

Dear colleagues,

Montenegrin appears at the moment with "SLA" code in XTRF. As there is no official ISO 639-1 code for Montenegrin, we don't have an official obligation, but SLA sounds very generic and misleading (like general "slavic" it's a bit unfair to the identity of Montenegro that is a candidate country to the EU), plus it doesn't fit with the 2-letter pattern that most languages have. 

I would propose to use CG for Montenegrin, from "crnogorski". 

This is not an urgent matter, but I believe it's a good idea, and, if not, feel free to explain me why.

Best regards,

Daniel

I need to get a list of all people in the system that work for a specific company, via API. I don't see any way to do this via the api, aside from getting the list of all persons id's and going through each one to check the customerId field. That is a lot of API calls to accomplish that, and would be prohibitive to what I'm trying to accomplish. The API call for specific customers only seems to return the main contact info, so that doesn't work for what I need.

How can I get a list of the people from a specific company?

Hello everyone,

Do you have experience with connecting your XTRF to PEPPOL for e-invoicing? If so, would you mind sharing some insight on how you were able to make this work? It would help us a tremendous amount.

Kind regards,

Lorenzo

Hi everyone,

I just found out that there is the possibility to execute the Macro API with parameters. This would be great as I currently use a sketchy workaround.

My API documentation doesn't say anything about the parameters, and this is what I have found in one of the XTRF documents:

Parameterized Macros Available via API calls
Why? HP REST API didn't officially support executing XTRF Macros. Macros didn't support additional parameters
that could modify their behavior. Support for macro parameters has been added.
What? API call POST /macros/{macroId}/run enables executing a macro operation with parameters.
Where? Home Portal API.
Reference: DEV-7597

Did someone get this to work already? Or can XTRF tell me what needs to be done in order to get the parameters to get over to the macro?

Kind regards,
Dennis Rosenbaum

My company is doing a deep dive evaluation on moving to XTRF and trying to kick the tires a bit on the API.
We've attempted posting this question though the "preferred" Stack Overflow channel, but not getting any feedback (and doesn't appear to be getting much traffic), and frankly we don't have a ton of time for waiting too long.
Here's a question one of my devs has posted on SO and we'd like to determine best course of debugging such matters.

thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

We have a working API  to create Smart Projects, but we would like to add a payable (interpreter cost) and a receivable (client charge) to the Finance section.

We have been told in a previous XTRF ticket that this is possible, but I can't find any documentation. 

Does anyone know how to do this? Or point me at the documentation?

We have seen the new Chat functionality which pleases us a lot, and I think everyone here is pleased as well as it is a long awaited feature.

There is a problem though, the only way to enable the chat is through the Home Portal. It is also not possible to enable the chat later on, when the project is already created. This seems like a strange design choice as we live in an API first and modular software world.

We create loads of projects through the API and are therefore unable to enjoy the chat.

I have asked this question on the XTRF Help Center as well, this is their response: 'we are considering such an option in the future version of the chat but at the moment I'm not able to provide any details on when this would be implemented.'

So I would like to know if more of the XTRF users are in need of a way to enable the chat through the API. Please let me know and maybe the development of this feature can be speed up.

I'm reading up on the subscription API and see that it is possible to filter events on custom fields. I seem to be missing part of the picture though, especially with regard to the job_status_changed event. 

How can you automatically set up a custom field with a specific value for filtering on job level? 

- I don't think it's possible to do this in the workflow definitions (for Classic Projects). 

- Setting a default value for a custom field would also make no sense, because they would all be the same and useless for filtering. 

- Setting it manually rather defeats the purpose and is not really error-proof.

- Using a macro + periodic job makes it time-based and therefore also not error-proof.

- Using a project_created event to trigger setting the custom field maybe? That would limit the number of events from 'every job status change' to 'every new project created', so significantly fewer, but it still doesn't feel like a clean solution.

Is there anyone with experience in this who can explain it to me? 

Hi all,

I would like to automatically send out a Job Offer (Smart Project). The API doesn't seem to have this functionality. I am currently searching the JavaDoc for anything that let's me execute this job offer through a macro, but I haven't found it yet. 

Maybe one of you have automated this proces?

The exact functionality that I need is that I can create a Job offer automatically where I assign an activity/job and a rule (provider selection rule?). This is the current manual step that I take:

I would like to use the API (or macro) to convert a quote to a project.

Is there anyone that already done something like this?