Is there an API for adding tags?

There doesn’t appear to be, but I’d love to be proven wrong.

GET /tags.xml works and returns a list of tags and IDs, but I’ve tried several variants on POSTing new tags based on how the other API calls are structured and haven’t had any luck.

-One of the things I’m really hoping to be able to do with the API is write reports based off tags…- n/m on that, I see the GET /people.xml?tag_id=#{tag_id} now.

There is an API for querying elements that belong to a given tag, but we currently don’t have one for adding new tags. We’ll be sure to get that in at some point in the future, but we don’t have it right now.

I’d like to put in a vote for this being added to the API ;) It’d be extremely useful for importing contacts.

This is a real shame. Without being able to add tags with the create, it is pointless. We need to tag them as new so new contacts can be acted on. Otherwise they just get lost in the stream never to be seen again.

Hope we get this soon.

I agree. We desperately need tags to be able to be pre-defined upon import/creation of new contact records.

I’m looking forward to seeing this addition soon! =)

Thanks 37 team.

This a an absolute need for my organization. We are currently using another CRM provider which has an inferior UI. Highrise is absolutely perfect from a UI standpoint.

We have over 6,000 contacts that will need to be imported into the system, and they all are currently categorized. Being able to assign tags – either through the CSV import or thorugh the API – is an absolute necessity.

Thanks!

This works for me:

curl -u woodhull:X -d “name=name_of_tag” -H ‘X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest’ -H ‘Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8’ http://sample.highrisehq.com/parties/946496/tags

Where X is your password, name_of_tag is the tag and the url includes your contact id and highrise site.

Or even more simple:

curl -u xxx:xxx -d ‘name=name_of_tag’ http://xxx.highrisehq.com/parties/xxx/tags

Anything new on importing tags?

I’d also like an update on this. Still eagerly waiting for a solution :)

The post by OD works for setting a contact’s tag. This is a great start. I would love to know how to remove a tag too. And in an ideal world, I would like to be able to set a date for when the tag was added as that can be great information for reporting.

Any chance the tag API could include a count of the number of objects with that tag (to aid in generating a tag cloud). The alternative would be to get the list of tags, then run a query on each one & count the results, but that would suck up a lot of bandwidth etc. with each refresh.

and then delete the tag like this:
curl -u xxx:xxx -X DELETE http://xxx.highrisehq.com/parties/xxx/tags/id_of_tag

I’d love to see more tag related API functionality.

• Ability to add new people with one or more tags associated. If for not other reason and the help us keep track of which system added the person.
• Ability to add or remove tags from a person. We have a couple of systems we’d like to sync with Highrise and this would be valuable to update the status of the contact as the status changes in the external systems. eg. addTagToPerson(“current”), removeTagFromPerson(“lead”)

just some thoughts that if implemented would allow me to upgrade from the trial account..

Richard, can you send a beta invite to jchrysler (at) gmail.com ? I believe I made a request via, email, but I never heard back from you. Thanks in advance.

My apologies: you did make it in, but I did not tag you correctly. Download information is on its way via email.

Cheers

I agree, this is pretty much a necessity. Mobivity hit the nail on the head, kind of pointless adding contacts through here if you can’t mark them as “leads” or whatever.

Richard, can you please send me a beta invita as well to staub at ticketleap.com? I requested by email but have not heard back. Thanks so much.

My contact management system <g> shows that I have mailed four (4) release notifications to you. Let’s try and figure out if I have the wrong address or your email system is trashing them.

Cheers

Any update on Mass Tagging

I would like to stress the importance of this functionality one last time: it is critical for anyone moving from another contact management application to Highrise. If its not in HR itself it should at least be working in the API.

I agree. It’s the only thing holding back my company moving our 3,000 contacts into HR.

David and Crew

We are working on integrating highrise with our websites as part of the conversion process (contacts would be automatically added with a case and task etc)

Obviously adding tags would greatly help with managing contacts that are added.

Is there any sign of a ‘tag api’ or even somthing undocumented we could use to add tags to contacts?

Cheers Guys

Warren

For those using Ruby, check out my blog post on how I added the tagging functionality to people. Thanks to the above tips, I discovered it’s relatively trivial.