As a Webex developer, we want to give you advance notice of a key functionality change with spark-admin and spark-compliance scopes. The following authorization scopes are now deprecated and will no longer work after August 15, 2018: spark-admin:events_read spark-admin:memberships_read spark-admin:memberships_write spark-admin:messages_read spark-admin:messages_write spark-admin:rooms_read spark-admin:teams_read spark-admin:team_memberships_read spark-admin:team_memberships_write Webex Teams apps which currently use spark-admin scopes to perform compliance activities as an organization administrator will need to transition to spark-compliance scopes over the next two months. After this change, organization administrators will no longer be able to perform compliance activities. Instead, these activities will be limited to only the compliance officers for an organization. The deprecated scopes have been removed from the Webex for Developers site and are no longer available for new applications, testing via Test Mode in the Webex Teams API Reference, or with an administrator’s portal token. If any of your apps make use of the spark-admin scopes listed above, please update them now. We'll keep you posted on any other changes on this, and, of course, will continue to update you on other refinements we make to further improve and enhance the Webex Teams API. — Pallavi Samanu, Senior Product Manager ... View more

As a Cisco Spark developer, we want to give you a heads up regarding a key functionality change in the Spark Message API endpoint. Currently, the Message API endpoint accepts @mentions in 1-1 Spark spaces. Soon, though, the API will return an error if an @mention is used in a 1-1 space. What this means is that, moving forward, @mentions should only be used in Spark group spaces. If your app has been @mentioning in 1-1 spaces, please update it now to remove the mention. We'll keep you posted on any other changes on this, and, of course, will continue to update you on other refinements we make to further improve and enhance the Cisco Spark developer ecosystem. - Pallavi Samanu, Senior Product Manager ... View more

As a Cisco Spark Developer, we want to give you a heads up that the Licenses API endpoint for Cisco Spark will soon be updated to include all hybrid services available for an organization. Currently, the Licenses API endpoint provides information about only those hybrid services which have been enabled for an organization. After this update, all hybrid services which are available for an organization, both enabled and disabled, will be returned and available for clients to review. This change allows organization administrators to assign hybrid services to users before a particular service is activated. It should be a great time-saver for organizations' IT departments, allowing them to focus time and resources on other tasks. Hybrid Services can be enabled or disabled via the Cisco Spark Control Hub. We encourage you to utilize this new flexibility. - Pallavi Samanu, Senior Product Manager ... View more

Continuing to provide useful APIs for our Cisco Spark Developer ecosystem, we want to give you a heads up that Cisco Spark Organization Administrators now have the ability to update email addresses for people within their organization via the Update a Person API endpoint. Simple and easy to incorporate, to update email addresses of a person, developers just need to use the API endpoint with an authentication token, which has the spark-admin:people_write scope associated with it. Important note: If an organization uses the Cisco Directory Connector to synchronize user accounts with Active Directory, you cannot update information for Cisco Spark users via this API. For those situations, you will still need to make changes in Active Directory. Again, this new feature for Cisco Spark developers is now available via the Update a Person API endpoint, so we encourage you to incorporate it into your integrations for Cisco Spark today! - Pallavi Samanu, Senior Product Manager ... View more

This past August, we announced limited availability of the Events API for Cisco Spark. We’re now making it available to all Cisco Spark developers! The Events API provides access to user activities within Cisco Spark after they have occurred. For example, perhaps you need to retrieve every message sent by a particular user to comply with a legal discovery process, or you need to know which Cisco Spark rooms someone joined or left. The Events API will give authorized users access to this information quickly and securely. Additional features include integrating the Events API with your existing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software to check for policy violations and to take action to resolve issues. Events available for monitoring include activities such as posting messages, sending content such as files, and group space membership changes. You can also integrate the Events API with your existing archiving software to archive an unlimited amount of Cisco Spark data. (Note: For access to events older than 90 days, you will need the Pro Pack for Cisco Spark Control Hub). With the addition of the new Compliance Officer role in Cisco Spark Control Hub, we’ve also added several new authorization scopes, which give compliance users access to more information about their organization’s usage of Cisco Spark. Now, an organization’s compliance officer will have access to retrieve and delete messages and space memberships, and retrieve information about spaces and teams. For more information about the Events API for Cisco Spark and the new compliance scopes, check out the Compliance Guide in our Cisco Spark API documentation. Finally, a special thank you to all of our Cisco Spark partners, developers, and customers who participated in early trials of our Events API. Your great feedback helped us resolve issues and add product enhancements, making this release of our Events API an excellent product for everyone. Enjoy! - Pallavi Samanu, Senior Product Manager ... View more