Action Network

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The Action Network modules allow you to create, update, retrieve, and delete the persons in your Action Network account.

Getting Started with Action Network

Prerequisites

An Action Network account

In order to use Action Network with Boost.space Integrator, it is necessary to have an Action Network account. If you do not have one, you can create an Action Network account at actionnetwork.org/users/sign_up.

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Boost.space Integrator scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting Action Network to Boost.space Integrator

To connect your Action Network account to Boost.space Integrator you need to obtain the API Key from your Action Network account and insert it in the Create a connection dialog in the Boost.space Integrator module.

Login to your Action Network account.
Click Details > API & Sync and select the list to view the API information.
Copy the API Key to your clipboard.
Go to Boost.space Integrator and open the Action Network module’s Create a connection dialog.
In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.
In the API Token field, enter the API token copied in step 4 and click Continue.

The connection has been established.

Actions

Get a Person

Returns information about the chosen person.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Action Network account.

Person ID

Select the Person ID whose details you want to retrieve.

Create a Person

Creates a new person.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Action Network account.

Email Address

Add the email address of the person whose account you are creating:

Email Address

Enter the email address of the person.

Primary

Select whether this is the primary email address:

Yes
No
Not defined

Status

Select the status of the email address:

Subscribed
Unsubscribed

Postal Addresses

Add the address of the person:

Primary

Select whether this is the primary address of the person:

Yes
No
Not defined

Address Line

Enter the street address of the person.

Locality

Enter the city name of the person.

Region

Enter the state name of the person,

Postal Code

Enter the area postal code.

Country

Enter the person’s country name.

Latitude

Enter the person’s location’s latitude details.

Longitude

Enter the person’s location’s longitude details.

Accuracy

Select the accuracy of the location:

Approximate
Rooftop

Given Name

Enter the name of the person.

Family Name

Enter the family name of the person.

Main Language Spoken

Select the language spoken by the person.

Update a Person

Updates information about a chosen person.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Action Network account.

Person ID

Select the Person ID whose details you want to update.

Email Address

Add the email address of the person whose account you are creating.

Email Address

Enter the email address of the person.

Primary

Select whether this is the primary email address:

Yes
No
Not defined

Status

Select the status of the email address:

Subscribed
Unsubscribed

Postal Addresses

Add the address of the person:

Primary

Select whether this is the primary address of the person:

Yes
No
Not defined

Address Line

Enter the street address of the person.

Locality

Enter the city name of the person.

Region

Enter the state name of the person,

Postal Code

Enter the area postal code.

Country

Enter the person’s country name.

Latitude

Enter the person’s location’s latitude details.

Longitude

Enter the person’s location’s longitude details.

Accuracy

Select the accuracy of the location:

Approximate
Rooftop

Primary

Select whether this is the primary address of the person:

Yes
No
Not defined

Address Line

Enter the street address of the person.

Locality

Enter the city name of the person.

Region

Enter the state name of the person,

Postal Code

Enter the area postal code.

Country

Enter the person’s country name.

Latitude

Enter the person’s location’s latitude details.

Longitude

Enter the person’s location’s longitude details.

Accuracy

Select the accuracy of the location:

Approximate
Rooftop

Given Name

Enter the name of the person.

Family Name

Enter the family name of the person.

Main Language Spoken

Select the language spoken by the person.

Make an API Call

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Action Network account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://actionnetwork.org/api. For example: /v2/people

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Action Network API Documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET

to retrieve information for an entry.

POST

to create a new entry.

PUT

to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH

to make a partial entry update.

DELETE

to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don’t have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of Use – List People

The following API call returns all the people from your Action Network account:

URL:

/v2/people

Method:

GET

Matches of the search can be found in the module’s Output under Bundle > Body > embedded.

In our example, 11 people were returned:

Legacy article, imported from the original Boost.space knowledge base (/knowledge-base/applications/lifestyle/action-network/).

Lifestyle

Pocket