Q. Is there a way to add a new high level category to the issue type using Field API? A. Please try: POST /fieldapi/issues/v1/create_type This method takes a name of category and a name of issue type: ticket project_id category_name – string. The name of category (e.g., Punch List, Safety)... Read more →

There is a small API enhancement that was made available in the latest update of BIM 360 Field. It allows you to retrieve a list of issues related to a given equipment. POST /fieldapi/issues/v1/search request has two additional parameters, source_id and source_type: source_id – an id of source object, i.e.,... Read more →

In the recent BIM 360 Field release, there are a few enhancements to the API: 1. Now you can retrieve Business Unit attribute using /api/projects Business Unit is an attribute for detailed project information, which is helpful for company who manage many BIM 360 Field projects to group the projects... Read more →

At BIM 360 our mission is to accelerate project delivery and reduce risk for our customers by enabling office to easily coordinate and connect while empowering the field to anticipate and act. A simple and powerful example is the Daily Updates feature that allows users to manager their jobsite performance details from the field itself. Today we are introducing the Daily Updates API. Read more →

If you are a BIM 360 Field account administrator, you may have received a notification e-mail titled: “Important information about your Autodesk BIM 360 Field account”. The Field product team is releasing updates with new features which require customer-by-customer-base updates. The changes are around administration feature. Account and Project administration... Read more →

There was an interesting question. /api/projects call returns a field named is_active with a value of true/false. This indicates which project is currently active in the given UI session. This could be easily mistaken as project status. Q. /api/projects call returns is_active, a value of true/false. But it is not... Read more →

In my previous post, we looked at how to attach a file to an equipment programmatically. In this post, we will look at how to upload a file to the library with tags. The code is actually simpler with uploading to the library as we don’t require a secondary level... Read more →

Programmatically uploading and attaching a file to a Field object is possible using the Field API REST call: POST /api/attachments This week, I got an inquiry about how to attach a file to an equipment. I thought a little more explanation with a minimum code sample beyond online document might... Read more →

Here is another question I got from my colleagues a few times. Again, this is about issues/search. This time how to filter by the date of update. Q. We want to search for all the new or updated issues since a specific date. For example, we want to get all... Read more →

This is a questions I got from my colleague. Quick one, yet, might be easy to miss if you are skimming through the document. Q. Is there a way to get the total number of issues in a given project without actually retrieving the issue records? A. You can use:... Read more →