I am trying to automatize our cloud licenses assignment and permissions and I've done good progress with Office 365 and BIM 360 (for the permission per project part).
We are now planning to roll-out BIM 360 Design to many users (100+) and with our current 15 licenses, it's already quite complicated to manage assignment via Autodesk CEP panel. Thus, I'm trying to find informations on an API that could be used to manage users license assigment, similar to what we can do here: https://manage.autodesk.com/cep/#user-management
If assignment cannot be changed via an API, a report with current assignments could be a good start so I can have some reconciliation done on the side...
Anyone have an idea how to achieve this?
Unfortunately the BIM 360 APIs that are now publicly available focus on the management of project users. There's no endpoint for licensing purposes at the moment.
For assignment reporting or other BIM360 Design issues please visit our forum - questions on SO is not attended to by the relevant teams.
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I am looking for a solution to extract drawings information (such as drawing, title, revision etc.) from multiple Revit models accommodated in BIM360.
I assume that Forge API can be helpful on this point, yet I am still trying to figure out where to start from.
In addition, my current team's technical abilities are limited to a good level of Dynamo and Python.
What would be your suggestion in terms of overall workflow?
Yes, the Autodesk Platform Services (formerly Forge) can help with this. For example, you could use the Data Management API to programatically browse through existing designs in BIM360, and the Model Derivative API to access all the information that was extracted from these designs (3D views, 2D sheets, metadata, etc.). This tutorial could be a good starting point: https://forge-tutorials.autodesk.io/tutorials/hubs-browser/.
However, keep in mind that APS is a cloud development platform, meaning that some basic understanding of web/server development is expected.
We have clients asking to use SSO when logging in to BIM 360 through our app integration. Older posts indicate this isn't supported in Forge's OAuth. Is this supported yet?
Autodesk SSO is supported on Forge, however BIM360/Forge do not yet support others SSO such as google, apple, etc... - There is multiple sample showing the 3legged OAuth workflow using the Autodesk SSO. Here is one as an example.
Now if you want to use SSO from other organisations, note that this will be supported in future, so you may re-ask the question in future.
You could also decide to use a workaround that we did demo in this example, the workaround consists in asking the user to login twice the first time he visits your application (once on Autodesk SSO, and a second time on the other SSO) and bind the two systems in your database. Since you can refresh the 3legged token with a 14days period, you can keep your application connected to Forge/BIM360 as long you want. Note this is only valid for Forge; you cannot use that technique to log on the BIM360 application interface, only using Forge to work with BIM360 data.
We recently submitted our Add-in for approval to be available on AppSource/Office Store and failed approval. Some of the feedback and policies make sense and we have addressed those items. However, there are a few policies that I'm not sure how to address and looking for guidance.
Policy 7.1 & 7.16 are about the supportURL not being publicly available and requiring Sign-in. Our add-in is not a general user add-in but targeted to Enterprise Customers of our Platform. They are provided a login for our support site so is this not sufficient? Do we really need a public url for an add-in targeted to Enterprise Customers?
As I was writing this I found the following link and wanted to make sure this was still valid and the same guidance for my scenario: App Submission - Help/Support Link Requirement
Policy 11.3 are about the Start-up experience needs to engage the user and show value proposition. Our users are Enterprise Users and have signed up for platform in which we will already guide them to use the Excel Add-in. Since they already know the value proposition from our sales team is there a way that this can be handled in our scenario without needing an explicit startup video or wizard walk through of app features?
Yes, this must be a public URL. The support link in your Seller Dashboard listing appears on the AppSource website so must be publicly available. It can be a link to your main website / or a contact page on your main website.
Have you seen the documentation on submitting Enterprise add-ins? This outlines which policies are not applicable when submitting an add-in which targets larger organizations and enterprises. It also explains how to declare, via test notes, that you are submitting an Enterprise add-in.
Project background: Building an API driven Learning Management System. The back-end system will be receiving data from multiple systems and interfaces: web, mobile, VR.
Looking at API Gateways to front our APIs. Preferably an Open Source API gateway but need to be sure that the support and service is available. Tried out Tyk.io and it feels like it might be the way to go. Been reading other StackOverflow threads around this and looks like TYK's gateway fairs quite well against the likes of Kong and WSO2.
Main areas of consideration for us are:
Rate-limiting
Open ID Connect authentication
Analytics
Scalability
Hybrid model of hosting - combination of on-prem and cloud depending on compliance requirements of educational institutes (Probably rules of AWS' gateway)
It would be really helpful if anyone who is using or has used TYK.io for their production projects can share their experience, especially for enterprise clients/projects.
Full disclosure: I work for Tyk, so of course think that Tyk is the best fit for your project ;)
Seriously, though - Tyk can do all those things you’re after. Here are some links to the documentation for each item that is big on your list:
Rate-limiting
Open ID Connect authentication
Analytics
Scalability
Hybrid model of hosting
You can also post on the Tyk community for help, if you haven’t already, or search to see what else others have said.
The Tyk Open Source API Gateway will do everything you need, even outputting analytics to difference sources, like ElasticSearch, Mongo or just CSV.
In addition, you can also use our API Management Platform to control your open source gateway. The Tyk API Management platform includes a Dashboard with analytics and out-of-the-box developer portal. Tyk is free to use, under a developer license, to manage a single gateway node, ideal if you are doing a POC.
Hope this helps and please keep in touch to let us know more about your use case.
I'm confused by the preliminary documentation on the OneNote dev blog. Does it mean that a Native App accessing has to use (compile in) a Client ID specific to an individual O365 subscription?
The implication being that an Commercial App would need recompiling for each different O365 customer. Is this the intention?
If so then this severely limits the utility of OneNote Api in O365.
I'm hoping that I've misunderstood, can anyone advise please?
Paul,
Apologies if we confused you with our initial preliminary docs. Definitely not the case. The app ID is relative to the O365 tenant that publishes the app, but you just flip over the switch to say it is a multi-tenant app for it to be able to be consumed by any tenant.