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Hello Docebo experts :)

I am having an issue with using the API to set occupation and skills for multiple users and would really appreciate your help. I don’t understand what the “canonical” variables stand for and where I can obtain them from. 

Here is my attempt, which sadly resulted in an error. I tried to assign a skill “Effective Communication” to a particular user. 

{
  "occupation": {
    "code": "esco_occupation_52df9d56-efd4-48d0-ad93-59231943fc4c", (i got the code by using “Retrieve The Occupations List From Workforce Service” on a user who already has a skill “Effective Communication”)
    "name": "3D Animator",
    "canonical_code": "string", (I have no idea what to put here)
    "canonical_name": "string", (I have no idea what to put here either)
    "is_custom": false (since this occupation was already set up by default by Docebo)
  },
  "skills":
    {
      "code": "added_skill_effective-communication", (retrieved it from a user who already has this skill using API)
      "name": "Effective Communication", (that’s the name of the skill)
      "expertise": 1,
      "is_custom": true, (it is custom)
      "is_suggested": true (not sure what it means and if I should change it to “false”)
    }
  ]
}

 

Any suggestions on how to proceed will be hugely appreciated!

All the best,

 

Mateusz

This would be super useful for me to know as well. It’s unfortunate that we cannot add skills to users via CSV and without any IT support, it’s tough...

I’m afraid I don’t have experience with the Skill API, but here are two things I would at least try, if you haven't already:

  1. Try omitting canonical_code and canonical_name from your request altogether.
  2. Use the same values for canonical_code and canonical_name as you did for code and name above.

Beyond that, I’m really not sure where these values might come from. I don’t suppose your error message included any detail about what was wrong?

Edit to add: It appears that the is_suggested field tracks whether the skill is recommended by the Artificial Intelligence or not (see the very end of this Knowledge Base article).

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