topic Re: ERROR Invalid value for filter: mentionedPeople in Webex for Developers

ERROR Invalid value for filter: mentionedPeople

Raghu13 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:11:26 GMT

Anyone had success with using webhook to GET messages and filtering on mentionedPeople when the personID is the personID of a webex bot?

All attempts to create a webhook filtered using this >> mentionedPeople=Get2Finish@webex.bot failed with below error:

'Invalid value for filter: mentionedPeople')

Any guesses on what I might be doing wrong?

Re: ERROR Invalid value for filter: mentionedPeople

dtibbe — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:17:15 GMT

You've provided the bot's email but you'd need to provide the person id as described at https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/messages/list-messages

Person IDs usually starts with Y2lz...

Re: ERROR Invalid value for filter: mentionedPeople

Raghu13 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:15:14 GMT

Thank you for responding to my question!

First to clarify what is personID and BotID. This documentation on Bots goes into the difference between Bots and People states
- people have a personId that must be resolved via /people, while bots have a Bot Id and a personId.
- The Bot Id is shown in the apps page and is usually only known to the developer
- while the bot's personId can be looked up via the bot's email address in /people.

From my Bot developer page, I see the Bot username has a email format XYZ@webex.bot and the BotID a long string that usually starts with Y2lz....

I have tried creating a webhook using (as below) both IDs and failed.

mentionedPeople=Get2Finish@webex.bot
mentionedPeople=Y2lzY......

I have been successful in creating a webhook when I have used a regular users personID which has narrowed down the issue to failure to when I use a Bot info in the filter.

Re: ERROR Invalid value for filter: mentionedPeople

Raghu13 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 23:26:23 GMT

Resolved:

dtibbe has just one part of the answer in that the ID starts with Y2lz...

What was missing was the key - you needs to use https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/people/list-people to find the Bots personID