How do I create a Post Data endpoint?

Post Data

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PLEASE NOTE:  If you are having trouble getting a POST through, please have a look at this article for Trouble Shooting options.

Leveraging Post Data will require some technical skills in order to receive and manipulate and process the data.

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What is Post Data?

Post Data is similar to the e-mail report in that it pushes a copy of the record data out of iFormBuilder to a user-defined web page (while maintaining the original record on the iFormBuilder database).

This action takes place every time a new record is successfully uploaded to the server, or an existing record is updated.

How do I create a Post Data endpoint?

To create an endpoint, please follow the instructions below.

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Step 1

Under Form Assignment you will see the table below (not supported for shared forms). Click the "New Endpoint" button to enter your POST destination details.

Step 2

Enter the details for your web service and then click "Create Endpoint".

Step 3

When the page reloads, you will see the high-level details of your endpoint listed in the table.

Endpoint Parameters

• Name: Name of the POST service
• Endpoint URL: The address iFormBuilder will send data to when a record is called for POST process
• Post Data Format: The data format you want delivered to the Endpoint (XML, JSON)
• Post Body Content Type: Encoding format of the data being send to Endpoint. Options will vary depending on Post Data Format
• Use Labels: With this option turned on, the data will use the column labels as tags instead of data column names.
• Error Email: An e-mail address that will receive an e-mail if the request fails after the number of retries is exceeded (5 days)
• Notification Email: An e-mail address that will receive an e-mail each time a request fails with a 400 or 500 level code and has not exceeded maximum number of tries for Guaranteed Delivery.
• Guaranteed Deliver: With this option turned on, when a POST request fails to reach the destination, it will be returned to a queue and will try again with the following schedule (1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 6 hours, 24 hours)

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Guaranteed Delivery:  This is a new option in POST requests.  If a record fails to reach it’s destination, it will keep trying periodically until it either goes through or after a specified time has elapsed.   With this option turned on, when a POST request fails to reach the external service destination, it will be returned to a queue and will try again with the following schedule (1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 6 hours, 24 hours).

 

Multiple POST Destination – You are now able to post data to multiple endpoints. By allowing for more than one POST destination, data from records can meet multiple needs instead of just one.  *This upgrade only applies to companies with a Dedicated Database.

Both of these features will be available through the 7.1 Server Update.

In the short video below, Zerion Software Agent Tony Ruth walks through the POST update.