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Add as Reference

Request

Overview

The Add as Reference API captures events for articles that are referenced by agents replying inside of a digital channel activity.

Note: Either the x-ext-activity-id or
x-ext-integration-id and x-ext-interaction-id header must be provided.

Permissions

  • Only Agents can invoke this API.
Security
oAuthUser(Required scopes:
https://api.egain.cloud/auth/kno...
)
or oAuthOnBehalfOfUser(Required scopes:
https://api.egain.cloud/auth/kno...
)
Path
portalIDstring, [ 7 .. 20 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}-\d{4,15}$required

The ID of the portal being accessed.

A portal ID is composed of a 2-4 letter prefix, followed by a dash and 4-15 digits.

Example:PROD-1000
articleIDstring, [ 7 .. 20 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}-\d{4,15}$required

The ID of the Article.

An Article ID is composed of a 2-4 letter prefix followed by a dash and 4-15 digits.

Example:PROD-2996
Headers
x-egain-activity-idstring, [ 4 .. 9 ] characters^[0-9]{4,9}$

A unique numeric interaction identifier from eGain.

Example:59237
x-ext-integration-idstring, <= 40 characters^[\w\W]+$

The unique numeric identifier for a tenant, used in self-service functionality as well as third-party integrations.

Note: The x-ext-integration-id and x-ext-interaction-id headers must always be provided together and cannot be supplied independently.

The x-egain-activity-id may be provided on its own, or it may be provided along with both x-ext-integration-id and x-ext-interaction-id.

Examples:
uuid
3155180e-0c13-43e9-9c38-e9045bcbf176
hex
00Dbn00000IxGnx
x-ext-interaction-idstring, <= 40 characters^[\w\W]+$

A unique interaction identifier from other CRM applications.

Note: The x-ext-integration-id and x-ext-interaction-id headers must always be provided together and cannot be supplied independently.

The x-egain-activity-id may be provided on its own, or it may be provided along with both x-ext-integration-id and x-ext-interaction-id.

Examples:
uuid
3155180e-0c13-43e9-9c38-e9045bcbf176
hex
00Dbn00000IxGnx
Accept-Languagestringrequired

The Language locale accepted by the client (used for locale specific fields in resource representation and in error responses).

Enum:"en-US""es-ES""fr-FR""it-IT""de-DE""nl-NL""pt-BR""pt-PT""da-DK""ru-RU"
Example:en-US
Acceptstringrequired

The content type accepted by the client.

Default:"application/json"
Value:"application/json"
Bodyapplication/jsonrequired
versionIdstring, [ 7 .. 20 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}-\d{4,15}$required

An Article version's ID.

Example:"PROD-12416"
editionIdstring, [ 7 .. 20 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}-\d{4,15}$

An Article edition's ID.

Example:"PROD-13015"
languageobject(Language)required

The knowledge base language in which the version is created.

Example:
{ "code": "en-US" }
PUT
/portals/{portalID}/articles/{articleID}/addasreference
curl -i -X PUT \
  https://api.egain.cloud/knowledge/portalmgr/v4/portals/PROD-1000/articles/PROD-2996/addasreference \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept-Language: en-US' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-egain-activity-id: 59237' \
  -H 'x-ext-integration-id: 3155180e-0c13-43e9-9c38-e9045bcbf176' \
  -H 'x-ext-interaction-id: 3155180e-0c13-43e9-9c38-e9045bcbf176' \
  -d '{
    "editionId": "PROD-13015",
    "versionId": "PROD-12416",
    "language": {
      "code": "en-US"
    }
  }'

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