University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2024

Release notes: Sprint 59

Notes We added a new endpoint in our research admin series, this time for award tasks. We’ve added some filters we thought would be useful, but please let us know if there’s anything you’d like that we missed! We’ve added the ability to filter grants based on a principal investigator ID using filter[investigatorId]. You can …

Release notes: Sprint 56

Notes Over the weekend, the Workday tenant that supplies our data was refreshed. This means that the data in the Finance API is now based on a much more recent snapshot of Peoplesoft (taken September 13th). Your data in the API will be much closer to what you see in current state, but there will …

Release Notes: Sprint 54

Notes A note about proposed endpoints: we’re no longer including proposed endpoints in the specification you see on the Developer Portal. We used to include these (suitably marked and labeled) as a way to communicate the details of proposed changes outside sprint reviews. Our new standard is that the OpenAPI specification will only reflect what’s …

Release notes: Sprint 53

Notes Some special announcements this time; Special Characters in identifiers Workday reference IDs can sometimes have special characters in them, like customer invoice AR-0001907-08/04/22. The date with the slashes is part of the ID. We can expect to see identifiers like this coming from Workday. If you try to query the API for that ID, …

Naming convention update migration guide

The Finance API is standardizing all our naming conventions, which had wandered a bit. All endpoints, attribute names, and filters will now use camel case when combining multiple words. Users of the Finance API will need to update their integrations to recognize the new names. Details of the elements whose names will change are in …

Release notes: Sprint 52

Notes This sprint we found and fixed a bug that affected the links section of all API responses. These are usually used for navigating between pages when there are too many results to fit in a single response. The bug caused those links to return an error message instead of the expected data. This is …

Release Notes: Sprint 51

Notes This sprint we added expenditure treatments to Internal Service Deliveries (ISDs). Most ISDs won’t have this value set, but for those where it is, you can now get this value from the API. We also did some cleanup on the tax codes endpoint, mostly making the types in the specification better match the way …