Web Portal API

The AL-Desk Web Portal Server was designed to allow Web Developers to have access to AL-Desk Data without having to have a complete and intimate knowledge of all of the internal AL-Desk Database table structures. We have purposedly surfaced only the absolute minimal data information to allow Web Developers to concentrate on quickly deploying WebSites that use AL-Desk data for their content.

A Note about Products: By default AL-Desk products are defined to not be available to the AL-Desk Web Portal. This is done by design to allow AL-Desk administrators to have full control over what products will be shown on the web site. Products must be tagged as being available to the web portal interface.

Feature	Implementation
Search for a Product for a Location	Get a List of locations and then invoke a product search based on location , a search string, category or category group. When you find a product show all the product information include rates and extra information available by the content manager
Show Categories of activities	Use als_get_categories.cgi and filter by location
Show Products for Categories	Use als_get_products.cgi and filter by category
Show a List of available Vendors	Use als_get_vendors.cgi and filter by a location
Show Block Availability	Use als_get_block_availablity.cgi
Create a Voucher	use als_insert_voucher.cgi
Accept a Payment	use als_insert_payment.cgi
Insert a new Client for use on a voucher	use als_insert_client.cgi
Implement a shopping cart	See the Shopping Cart discussion

We invite any feedback from AL-Desk Web Portal Users to improve our interface to external systems.