OX | Application Programming Interface (API) Usage and Best Practices Course

Developers will be presented with a fundamental overview of the Kantata OX architecture and the Kantata OX core API specifically focusing on request schema, response formats, standard filtering and includes, most common objects and hands-on examples.

Developers will be able to use the Kantata OX API to programmatically request data from and post data to the Mavenlink application.

Note: While the goal of this training is to have the trainees familiar with the APIs and can use the programming language of choice to build custom solutions; this is NOT a programming training course.  Usage and consumption of APIs will not be explained in relation to a specific programming language (e.g. Ruby or .Net). A tool (Postman) will be used for demonstrating the usage of the APIs. 

Course Objectives

After completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the relationship between core project components as well as account, account members and resources.
• Describe the basic architecture of Kantata OX and the API.
• Understand how a core set of objects can be created, updated and requested via the API and how to confirm this data in the Kantata User Interface.
• Understand how to interpret the latest Kantata OX developer API documentation for expansion of usage of the API beyond the core objects covered in class.
• Apply the general usage of the API to any application that the Developer may want to build incorporating the Kantata OX API.
• Understand core concepts of Kantata to allow for efficient gathering of requirements from Kantata Business users.

Who Should Take This Course  

The target audience for this course includes:

• Programming resources who are tasked with creating custom solutions using the Kantata OX API.
• Technical personnel that may want to use the Kantata OX API to retrieve data directly for a specific purpose.

Student Prerequisites

To participate in this course, it is strongly recommended that you meet the following prerequisites:

• Be an Administrator of your Company’s Kantata account (ideally with a Sandbox account)
• Have experience with using APIs from other applications.
• Have a general understanding of OAUTH 2.0 or similar authentication protocol.
• Understand how to interpret JSON or similar text-based format like XML.
• Have working knowledge of one or more coding languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Ruby, .NET, Python).
• Ideally, experience with a non-language specific tool such as Postman or using cURL.

Highly Recommended:

• Download, install, and familiarize yourself with the Postman application development tool (https://www.getpostman.com).