Creating an Entry

To create a new Entry you create a correctly structured JSON data set and send it to the entries list URL of the Event you want to add it to. The entry must be sent as a POST request. Many fields can be omitted from the data structure you submit, since they contain system generated values. All you really need to include to create an entry, is the payload field:

{
  "payload":[
    {
      "name": "basic",
      "value": "This is a new entry."
    }
  ]
}

Using curl you would save the modified JSON data in a file (say new-entry.json) and submit it like this:

curl --include -u user:password -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
> http://host-ip-address/live-center-editorial/event/24/entries --upload-file new.json

You need to include a Content-Type header with the request, specifying the data MIME type (application/json).

{
  "payload":[
    {
      "name": "xhtml",
      "value": "<p class=\"myclass\">Hello world</p>"
    }
  ]
}

Embedding Foreign Content

Live Center allows foreign content from social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube to be embedded in entries' rich text fields (see Using Embed Codes). To do this when editing a JSON payload, you must insert the foreign content's URL as an XHTML anchor (a) element, and include two special CSS classes:

esc-social-embed

This class indicates that the link is to be rendered as embedded content rather than an ordinary link.

esc-tag-providerName

Where providerName is one of Youtube, Twitter, Vimeo, Vine or Instagram. This identifies the source of the foreign content. No other sources of foreign content are currently supported.

The following example shows a payload containing an embedded YouTube video:

"payload":[
  {
    "name": "xhtml",
    "value": "<p><a class=\"esc-social-embed esc-tag-Youtube\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY"></a></p>"
  }
]