We previously explored retrieving lists of work orders using Cx Repair Contractor web services. While that approach suits queues and dashboards, real integrations often need to interrogate a single work order in detail. Cx provides several closely related SOAP methods for this purpose, all accepting the same identifiers but returning different levels of detail depending on intent and audience. Understanding their differences, prerequisites, and security behaviour is key to ch

In an earlier post, web-services-and-why-you-should-care we talked through what web services are and what you can do with them. We then also learned in soap-vs-rest , how Civica are due to rebuild all the current web services on the REST protocol. All that said, SOAP remains a valid candidate on which to build your integration project and so over a number of posts, I'll be talking through how each of the important web services work, and how they can be used. What lang

This article is about the difference between SOAP and REST APIs and how this is relevant to integrating to the Cx Housing Management...

In the first article in the series, we learn about what web services are and some key concepts