JobReady Tips: Creating Events

In the JobReady(JR) web service, the event resource object is exposed so that events can be created under a course or within a system timetable. To fulfil the criteria of a successful event creation, the following fields are mandatory:

• title
• event-date
• start-time
• end-time

Besides the field criteria, there is also a behavioural criteria to be met if a trainer needs to be associated with the event. For example, the following request schema would produce an error.

Request Profile:

  
  Class
  Sample Description
  true
  2011-06-07
  12:30:00
  14:30:00
  110425188

Error Response:

Validation failure
Please ensure the event's trainer is also an attendee.
...

In order to overcome the above error, the sequence of steps to follow are:

1. create the JR event without the trainer association
2. create the JR invitee within the event created in #1 for the trainer (uses party-identifier for the party(person))
3. update the JR event from #1 with the trainer (uses party-identifier for the party(person))