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Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby Michael Hammer » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:45 am

For our recently introduced web hooks functionality, we currently support the event types 'Invoice booked' and 'Day book booked'.

We'd like to add more - but we'd like to have your input first, so we know which events would be most useful to the largest number of developers.

So please write your suggestions below to make your voice heard ;)
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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby traels » Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:59 pm

Hi

Great with the hooks, look forward to play with them :)

2 that come to mind:
1: Order sent
2: Order upgraded to invoice
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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby MicMac » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:14 am

My suggestion

Order updated (Haven't been able to find a method to get updated orders in the system. Other that running through all open orders and checking them with my system).

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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby MicMac » Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:57 am

And of course also orderlines updated/created.

I hope this will be implemented soon :)

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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby TheManDK » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:01 am

We would like
- Customer created/deleted
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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby Christian Estrup » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:20 am

Hi TheManDK,

Customer changes can already be tracked, using a "Customer updated" web hook.

This can optionally include two merge fields: OLDNUMBER and NEWNUMBER:

- If OLDNUMBER is blank, NEWNUMBER is the number of a new customer
- If NEWNUMBER is blank, OLDNUMBER is the number of a deleted customer
- If OLDNUMBER = NEWNUMBER, both represent a customer whose master info has been changed
- If OLDNUMBER <> NEWNUMBER, the customer has been re-numbered, AND maybe also had other master info changed.

Similar hooks are available for product updates, as well as project updates.


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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby MicMac » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:29 pm

Bummer. No order update webhook in the latest e-conomic "update #42".

Will it ever become available?

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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby Christian Estrup » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:35 pm

Hi Mic,

What exactly is the use case you need this for?

In other words: In your world, what constitutes an order being 'updated'?


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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby MicMac » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:37 pm

Christian Estrup wrote:Hi Mic,

What exactly is the use case you need this for?

In other words: In your world, what constitutes an order being 'updated'?

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Hello Christian

After the first finished entering of an order, we sometimes change heading, ourref1+2 and the other main parts of an order and in our external system/database we would also like to have these changes applied as we also need to create a special order list (which cannot be created in e-conomics directly) with these order information.

What we are doing now is to pull the whole list of active orders and update our external system with the order information and this actually takes quite some time and cannot/must not be done as often as we need.

We also change/add orderlines to orders now and then and would also like the changes in the orderlines updated in our external system without having to pull the whole list of order lines.


Another problem I see is that our external system does not know whenever we have finished entering an order, so if our external system pulls the orderlist before the user has finished entering the order the external system does not have the full order information. If we could get a order/orderline update webhook these problems would not be an issue.

To sum up: The main issue is that our external system/database is not uptodate regarding active orders, which it could be with the mentioned webhooks :)

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Re: Which web hook events would you like us to support?

Postby Christian Estrup » Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:01 pm

Hi,

Particularly if you consider adding, changing or deleting LINES on the order as a change to the order - then I'm afraid adding an "Order changed" web hook would easily end up flooding your system with web hook events :-(

However... Somehow, between the lines, I'm reading that you may not really need to know instantly every single time an order changes. So, perhaps you could do with an Order version of GetAllUpdated() - ?


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