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Getting Started

In this section we'll take you step by step through the basics of manipulating the API. In particular covering how measures are handled. You can jump around the sections as you wish or you can follow them through in sequence.

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Making an API call

It is always nice to see some simple examples without having to really understand all the little details.

A little curl housekeeping

We're going to use curl quite a bit more in this tutorial so let's get a few things in order ...

Looking at measures

The first query that we made into the API helped us see what measures we can see. In many cases ...

Populating and querying measures

This section teaches you how to create a measure using the API and to add data to the measure.

Querying measures for different time aggregations

One of the significant features of IvyRoot is the ability to query data against different time intervals to the one ...

Querying measures with gaps in the data

Not all data sets are continuous. Data can be inserted for times but when queried the data is checked for ...

Querying measures by name

For convenience it is possible to query and update measures by name. This is less optimal when performing multiple transactions ...

Managing categories

Although each measure stands alone it is also important to be able to associate measures with each other and to ...

Connecting measures and categories

You can associate a measure with multiple categories. However, at this moment you can only associate a measure with a ...