BBNC API Peer Support

Flash Banner Slideshow implementation

Tom Bakry — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:09:58 GMT

I am not sure that this is the best forum for this, but, here goes...

We are trying to implement a banner slideshow. The problems we have encountered are that if we are using the Flash part, BBNC seems to require us to upload the SWF through the part dialog and that only allows the upload of one SWF. If we use a frame to implement, then we run into the problem where menus pop under the frame. If we try to load the code through a FTI part, the show seems to be unable to access functions that are not in the primary SWF.

Does anyone have any useful secrets to share that will help us to figure out how to load Flash and Javascript that are more complex than just a few lines of code?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

Custom forgot password form

David Savill — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:17:03 GMT

Hello there,

I'm currently developing a custom donation form and one of the requirements of the form is to be able to login mid-process. I've got that part working properly, but I have yet to discover how to provide the "forgot username/password" functionality without using the standard login part.

Are the forgot username/password functions exposed in the API? If not, is there a way to kick off an email that I create myself after retrieving the username/password?

Or is there a way to use the existing login/forgot password form for this purpose (ie: without showing the login controls)?

Thanks

David

eReceipts in Custom Donation Form

George Leventis — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:08:54 GMT

Hi all,

I've made a couple of custom donation forms based on the excellent example Michael Andrews gave about a year ago:
http://labs.blackbaud.com/NetCommunity/article?artid=654

However, I can't get the eReceipt functionality to work.
On my custom donation form, I have a "<bbnc:HTMLEditor>" and "<bbnc:EmailEditor>" part that are working fine. The HTMLEditor displays a thank you message after the donation form has been submitted, and the EmailEditor sends the acknowledgment email.

In both of these editors, I would like to include a link to the eReceipt, and have attempted this (the merge fields exist for this), but the eReceipt url gets generated and leaves off the key at the end.

For example, a "healthy" looking eReceipt url looks like this:
http://mysitehere.com/NetCommunity/Components/EReceipt.ashx?key=3VvTfbF3PUeyKfhVfKRn

And the one I am seeing generated from my custom donation form looks like this:
http://mysitehere.com/NetCommunity/Components/EReceipt.ashx?key=

I am imagining there is something else I need to "turn on" for this custom donation form that allows eReceipts, but I can't figure out where or how.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
George

Net Community dba

Ros Perry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:25:18 GMT

Hi everyone

I am not sure if this is the correct forum, but:

We are looking to recruit an assistant to our dba ie with RE, procedure writing, Crystal Reports, Excel skills etc. I am fairly comfortable with the job description for these tasks, but -

We are also looking to implement Nert Community in the near future and integrate with Facebook - and try some of the clever web developments which were highlighted at the recent Blackbaud conference. So I am wondering what sort of additional skills such a person would need - eg Java, VB?

I would really appreciate so feedback and advice.

Ros Perry
DBA
University of Wollongong

Issues Using RE API in Net Community Web Service

Michael Wiebrands — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:13:08 GMT

Hi Guys,

Wondering if you can help.

I have written a web service for Net Community to talk to RE and update the user Solicit Codes.

I have two questions:

1. To get access to the solicit code code table objects I had to modify the IBBSessionContext cast in the WebService from the one shown in the NC samples

Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BBInterfaces.IBBSessionContext

to the one shown in the REAPI help page samples Blackbaud.

PIA.RE7.BBREAPI.IBBSessionContext

The context object used in the Net Community code samples is more limited in scope. It seems to work but I am concerned. Is this a valid modification? Can anyone see any issues with this?

2. While attempting to do a CRecord.save() I get the following exception:

System.Exception: Error saving user solicit codes. Error in Save: Objects in Read-Only mode cannot be saved or deleted

I am not sure what is causing this. I tried modifying the CRecord.ReadOnly flag to true but it came up with uninitialised object errors. Is this a licensing issue or a configuration issue? Can anyone shed any light on this?

I have listed the current code below.

Thanks Michael

-----------------------------------------

Web Service Request Handler:

using System;
using Blackbaud.NetCommunity.WebService.Interfaces;
using Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BBREAPI;
using CurtinLinkOnlineCommon;

namespace CurtinLinkOnlineWebService
{
    [BBNCExtensions.CustomServiceMethods.CustomServiceMethod(CurtinLinkOnlineWebServiceConstants.WebServiceGuid)]
    public class RequestHandler : IRequestHandler
    {
        public object GetResponse(IRequestSender sender, object request)
        {
            // "Session Context" for using The Raiser's Edge client-side API.
            IBBSessionContext context = (IBBSessionContext)sender.SessionContext;

            // Dispatch request to handlers
            if (request is GetRegisteredEventsRequest)
            {
                return new RegisteredEventsHandler().GetRegisteredEvents((GetRegisteredEventsRequest)request, context);
            }
            else if (request is GetMailPreferencesRequest)
            {
                return new MailPreferencesHandler().GetMailPreferences((GetMailPreferencesRequest)request, context);
            }
            else if (request is SetMailPreferencesRequest)
            {
                return new MailPreferencesHandler().SetMailPreferences((SetMailPreferencesRequest)request, context);
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Exception("Request type not handled in this service, " + request.GetType());
            }
        }
    }
}

Method from MailPreferencesHandler:

        public SetMailPreferencesResponse SetMailPreferences(SetMailPreferencesRequest request, IBBSessionContext context)
        {
            int constituentID = 0;
            constituentID = request.ConstituentId;
            List<RESolicitCode> solicitCodes = request.RESolicitCodes;

            SetMailPreferencesResponse response = new SetMailPreferencesResponse();
            CRecord constituent = new CRecord();

            try
            {
                constituent.Init(ref context);
                constituent.Load(constituentID, true);

                // wipe all existing solicit codes
                foreach (CConstituentSolicitCode userSolicitCode in constituent.SolicitCodes)
                {
                    constituent.SolicitCodes.Remove(userSolicitCode);
                }

                // add all the new ones
                foreach (RESolicitCode newSolicitCode in solicitCodes)
                {
                    CConstituentSolicitCode newCode = constituent.SolicitCodes.Add();
                    newCode.set_Fields(ECONSTITUENT_SOLICITCODESFields.CONSTITUENT_SOLICITCODES_fld_SOLICIT_CODE, newSolicitCode.Description);
                }

                constituent.Save();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw new Exception("Error saving user solicit codes. " + ex.Message);
            }
            finally
            {
                constituent.CloseDown();
            }

            return response;
        }

Directory Part Replacement

Michael Wiebrands — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:27:45 GMT

We're looking into replacing the directory part in NC with something a bit more user friendly. Are there any facilities in the NC API to do searching across data in NC and/or RE? I can only seem to find calls to access data on specified records.

COMException 0x80010105 when retrieving participant event data

Garrett Keating — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:52 GMT

We have been having a growing problem with a custom events registration form that we use. This is a sporadic problem, happens about 1 in every 5 page loads

Here is the error…

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80010105): The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105 (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT)) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.CustomMarshalers.EnumeratorViewOfEnumVariant.MoveNext() at USNAWebservices.MasterService.getParticipantEvents(Int32 REID)

And here is my code

<WebMethod()> _

Public Function getParticipantEvents(ByVal REID As Integer) As ParticipantData

Dim RE7 As REAPI = initAPI()

Dim oEventParticipants As Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BBREAPI.CRecord

oEventParticipants = New Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BBREAPI.CRecord

Dim oParticipant As Blackbaud.PIA.RE7.BBREAPI.CParticipant

Try

If RE7 Is Nothing Then

RE7 = initAPI()

End If

If Not RE7 Is Nothing Then

Dim i As Integer

Dim oData As New ParticipantData

With oEventParticipants

.Init(RE7.SessionContext)

.Load(REID)

Dim oParticipantInfo As New ArrayList

For Each oParticipant In .Participants

If CType(oParticipant.EventObject.Fields(ESpecialEventFields.SPECIAL_EVENT_fld_START_DATE), Date) > Date.Today Then

Dim results As New ParticipantInfo

results = getParticipantEventsInfo(oParticipant.Fields(EParticipantsFields.Participants_fld_ID))

oParticipantInfo.Add(results)

End If

oData.Data = CType(oParticipantInfo.ToArray(GetType(ParticipantInfo)), ParticipantInfo())

End With

Return oData

Else

SendNotif("Unable to getParticipantEvents: API failed to initialize.")

End If

Catch ex As Exception

SendError("ERROR: webservices: getParticipantEvents " & Now(), "Garrett.Keating@usna.com", ex.ToString, True)

Finally

oEventParticipants.CloseDown()

End Try

End Function

I found this article (BB330194) in the KB that says I should check to see if re7 is nothing and then re-init. That’s doesn’t seem to help.

The above code is designed to check the logged in constits future events and then pass that back to the custom part so it can pre-populate info if they have already signed up for the current event

This code resides in a webservice

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Custom part to view newly added Class Notes

George Leventis — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:21:01 GMT

Hello all,

I want to create a custom part to pull newly added Class Notes into a small scrolling section on a page.
What is the best way to access this info in the custom part?
Should I use the RE web service, or is there a way to pull this info directly from BBNC that I'm missing?

Thanks,
George