{"id":141,"date":"2014-01-21T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:52:37","slug":"automated-data-import-export-via-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/2014\/01\/21\/automated-data-import-export-via-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated Data-Import &#038; Export via API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for all companies who are using portatour\u00ae Anywhere and want to import and export their data regularly. Read on if you have 2 users or more and your data&#8217;s origin is not in an already supported system (Outlook, Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, Connector).<\/p>\n<p>Using the new <strong>portatour API<\/strong>\u00a0(&#8220;Application Programming Interface&#8221;), you can make <strong>automated data exchange<\/strong> with other systems<strong> quick and easy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the API supports four methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customer import (creating new customers and updating existing records)<\/li>\n<li>Customer export<\/li>\n<li>Appointment export<\/li>\n<li>Call report export<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By providing these methods, the API mirrors the import\/export functionality that is available in the user interface of\u00a0portatour\u00ae Anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The API (and the documentation) is available for companies with 2 or more user accounts and only visible to users with administration rights. You can find the documentation in the portatour\u00ae Anywhere menu-item <strong>Options<\/strong>, below <strong>Organization<\/strong> when you click <strong>API<\/strong>. The documentation is in English and written for IT-administrators and programmers.<\/p>\n<p>Data-import and -export is <strong>file-based<\/strong>. You can upload and download Excel, CSV or ODS files using HTTPS GET and POST requests, which you can run using the <strong>free open-source tool<\/strong> <strong>cURL<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\">http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/<\/a>) on <strong>any operating system on the command line<\/strong>. Automating these operations is easy using a batch file or shell script.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you a great time automating and are looking forward to your feedback which you can send to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@portatour.com\">feedback@portatour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for all companies who are using portatour\u00ae Anywhere and want to import and export their data regularly. Read on if you have 2 users or more and your data&#8217;s origin is not in an already supported system (Outlook, Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, Connector). Using the new portatour API\u00a0(&#8220;Application Programming Interface&#8221;), you can make automated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anywhere-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}