What is the curl for blueprint associations using the course SIS ID

[efudge]

We are working on the curl script to associate and un-associate courses with a blueprint course. We have been successful using the Canvas course ID but prefer to use our own configuration of the course SIS_ID. Below is a snip of what we have and it states success on push however the association/un-association appear not be be affected. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

curl https://url.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/sis_course_id:BP_ACCT101/blueprint_templates/default/upda... -X PUT -H 'Authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' -d 'course_ids_to_remove[]=sis_course_id:40001.201840.1'

[jwadec]

 @lmsadmin5 ‌, I have run into the same thing. From what I can tell, the sis_course_id can only be used as part of the end point URL and not as one of the variables that you send. I would love for someone to prove me wrong, though.

You might try adding a feature request to see if this option can be added.

[jsavage2]

That seems to be correct: the array can only contain the numeric Canvas id of the course. Under the hood there's no lookup; it just takes whatever you give it, assumes it's an integer id, and tries to unlink it from the template.

For some reason, it does seem to always return a successful return code, though. There is validation for ids_to_add, but not for ids_to_remove. That might be worth a bug report.

See https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/stable/app/controllers/master_courses/master_template...

[efudge]

Thank you both for the validation. We believe we can use the SIS_Course_ID within the URL for the actual Blueprint but not for the course we want to remove the association. I've not put in a bug report so will try and do that soon. In the meantime, we have a script that will grab the Canvas course ID and cross reference this ID to our course ID. 

[lmsadmin5]

I'm gathering from this thread that there is no way to run a report on which courses are associated with a blueprint. Is this correct or has someone come up with an idea. Also, any further progress towards a UI or script to remove all or any unassociated courses. I find that when we run new course batches (we run new courses for each part of term) that somehow some blueprints have some associations and some do not. I am not quite sure why if I run a new course the blueprints sync back to the associations automatically. Suggestions or thoughts on a fix?