How to get a profile in the iOS SDK

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Chris Mash

• July 04, 2014 21:03

Hi,

I'm trying to make an iOS app which will post items to a Podio app. I've got that all working fine without too much trouble but one of the fields is 'employee' which I want to reference to other users or contacts, though I can't see how to achieve this.

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  Sebastian Rehnby

  • July 07, 2014 06:39

  Hi Chris,

  I assume the "employee" field is an relationship/app reference field to an Employee app? If so, to set the employee relationship, just fetch the PKTItem object that you want to reference from the Employee app and set it as the value of the "employee" field, like:

  PKTItem *myEmployeeItem = ...;

  PKTItem *itemToCreate[@"employee"] = myEmployeeItem;

  You can now save the "itemToCreate" item. Does that solve your problem?

  For more info on how to use the relationship field and other field types in PodioKit, check the "Relationship field" section at http://podio.github.io/podio-objc/fields.

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  Chris Mash

  • July 04, 2014 21:29

  I've managed to pull down the list of items in the 'People' app we also have, which duplicates the employee accounts. This serves the same purpose really but it would be interesting to know the answer to my question!

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  Sebastian Rehnby

  • July 07, 2014 07:08

  After reading your question again, is the "employee" field a contact field rather than a relationship field. If so, you need to supply a PKTProfile object as the field value, like:

  PKTProfile *contact = ...;
  itemToCreate[@"employee"] = contact;

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  Chris Mash

  • July 07, 2014 07:09

  That's the solution I switch to, initially I was trying to use podio user accounts but you don't seem to be able to get a list of those?

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  Chris Mash

  • July 07, 2014 07:12

  Yes Sebastian, it was a contact/profile, but there's no documentation/guidance for how create/populate a PKTProfile

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  Sebastian Rehnby

  • July 07, 2014 07:15

  The current beta version doesn't support that, but it might be pretty easy to add it. What would be your preferred way of looking up profiles from the API, i.e. which API call in the "Contacts" area (https://developers.podio.com/doc/contacts) would you use to find search for contacts? This is fairly application specific, so I am just trying to get an understanding of the use case.

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  Chris Mash

  • July 07, 2014 08:06

  I think we'd probably use 'Get space contacts' as the app is to integrate with a specific workspace and specific set of apps

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  Sebastian Rehnby

  • July 07, 2014 13:44

  Ok good to know. I'll try to get that added to the SDK in the next week or so.

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  Chris Mash

  • February 08, 2016 20:12

  Time flies... I can't see this functionality in PodioKit yet, did it make it in?

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