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Platformly

Getting Started with Platformly

The Platformly modules allow you to monitor, add, update, and retrieve contacts or add and remove tags in your Platformly account.

Prerequisites

  • A Platformly account

In order to use Platformly with Make, it is necessary to have a Platformly account. If you do not have one, you can create a Platformly account at www.platform.ly.

Note

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Make scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting Platformly to Make

To connect your Platformly account to Make you need to add a new API Key to your Platformly account and insert the created API Key to the Make Platformly module connection dialog.

  1. Log in to your Platformly account and open the API Docs & Keys settings.

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  2. Click on the New API Key button.

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  3. Enter the name for the API Key, copy the provided API Key and click on the Submit button.

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  4. Go to Make and open the Create a connection dialog in the desired module. Enter the API Key into the respective field.

After you click the Continue button you can proceed to set up the Platformly module.

Triggers

Triggers when a new contact is added or updated.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Limit

Set the maximum number of contacts Make will return during one execution cycle.

Project ID

Select the project that you want to monitor for new or updated contacts.

Actions

Creates a new contact in your account.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Project ID

Select the project you want to add the new contact to.

Tag

Select the tag you want to assign to the new contact.

Custom Fields

Add custom fields to the contact, represented by the selected key and entered value.

Segment

Assign the contact to the segment.

Email

Enter the contact's email.

Full name

If First name and Last name are not provided this field can be used to provide the full name of the contact.

First name

Enter the first name of the contact.

Last name

Enter the last name of the contact.

Company

Enter the contact's company.

Address

Enter the address details of the contact.

City

Enter the city for the contact.

ZIP

Enter the ZIP code.

Country

Enter the contact's country

Fax

Enter the contact's fax number.

SMS Number

Enter the contact's SMS number.

Phone

Enter the contact's phone number.

Birthday

Enter the contact's birthday date. The list of supported date formats.

Website

Enter the contact's website.

Date

This is the First Seen date. The list of supported date formats.

Updates a specified contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Project ID

Select the project that contains the contact you want to update.

Email

Enter the email of the contact you want to update.

Find the descriptions of the fields in the Add a Contact section above.

Adds a tag to a contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Project ID

Select the project that contains the contact you want to assign a tag to.

Tag

Select the tag you want to add to the contact.

Email/Contact ID

Enter or map the email or contact ID of the contact you want to add the tag to.

Removes a tag from a contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Project ID

Select the project that contains the contact you want to remove a tag from.

Tag

Select the tag you want to remove from the contact.

Email/Contact ID

Enter or map the email or contact ID of the contact you want to remove the tag from.

Removes all tags from a contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Email/Contact ID

Enter or map the email or contact ID of the contact you want to remove all tags from.

Add a note to a contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Note

Add the text content of the note.

Email/Contact ID

Enter or map the email or contact ID of the contact you want to add the note to.

Allows you to perform a custom API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://api.platform.ly/. E.g. /

Note

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Platform.ly API documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET

to retrieve information for an entry.

POST

to create a new entry.

Note

Platform.ly use the POST method for all endpoints.

PUT

to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH

to make a partial entry update.

DELETE

to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Action

Select the action you want to perform.

The action name can be found in the API documentation.

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Values

Enter the required parameters for the action of your API call. E.g. Project ID (as project_id) and the corresponding value.

The following API call returns all contacts from the project:

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Matches of the search can be found in the module Output under Bundle > Body.

In our example, 23 contacts were returned:

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Searches

Retrieve details of a specified contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Email/Contact ID

Enter or map the email or contact ID of the contact you want to retrieve details about.

Retrieves the last 100 contacts within a specified project.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Platformly account.

Project ID

Select the project that contains the contacts you want to list.

Date

Enter a date to filter contacts by the last update date. The list of supported date formats.

Sort Order

Select whether you want to sort results in descending or ascending order.

Limit

Set the maximum number of contacts Make will return during one execution cycle.