Accela Announcements API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: The Citizens API include endpoints for citizen users to manage their own accounts, authorized users to manage other accounts, and manage citizen delegates, announcements, and invitations.
  title: Citizens Announcements API
  version: v4
servers:
- url: https://apis.accela.com/
tags:
- name: Announcements
  description: The **announcements** API endpoints allow apps to get agency and public announcements, and mark them as read announcements.
paths:
  /v4/announcements:
    get:
      description: 'Gets all public announcements in the system.


        **API Endpoint**: GET /v4/announcements


        **Scope**: announcements


        **App Type**: All


        **Authorization Type**: Access token


        **Civic Platform version**: 7.3.3'
      summary: Get All Announcements
      operationId: v4.get.announcements
      tags:
      - Announcements
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/authHeaderParam'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - description: Filter by whether or not the announcement has been read.
        in: query
        name: isRead
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Y
          - N
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fields'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Successful request. Note: A successful request may return no data matching the filter criteria. A successful request may also return messages related to Event Manager Scripting Engine back-end processing.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/response_messageModelArray'
        '400':
          description: Invalid request.
        '401':
          description: Authorization failed.
        '403':
          description: Forbidden request.
        '404':
          description: Requested resource not found.
        '500':
          description: Internal server error or bad connection.
  /v4/announcements/{ids}/read:
    put:
      description: 'Updates announcements to indicate that that the user has read the announcement.


        **API Endpoint**: PUT /v4/announcements/{ids}/read


        **Scope**: announcements


        **App Type**: Citizen


        **Authorization Type**: Access token


        **Civic Platform version**: 7.3.3.4'
      summary: Mark Announcements as Read
      operationId: v4.put.announcements.ids.read
      tags:
      - Announcements
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/authHeaderParam'
      - description: Comma-delimited IDs of announcements to update.
        in: path
        name: ids
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Successful request. Note: A successful request may return no data matching the filter criteria. A successful request may also return messages related to Event Manager Scripting Engine back-end processing.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/response_resultModelArray'
        '400':
          description: Invalid request.
        '401':
          description: Authorization failed.
        '403':
          description: Forbidden request.
        '404':
          description: Requested resource not found.
        '500':
          description: Internal server error or bad connection.
components:
  parameters:
    lang:
      description: Language parameter to support I18N. Default language is en_US.
      in: query
      name: lang
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    limit:
      description: Search result size limit.
      in: query
      name: limit
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int64
        enum:
        - range[1,1000]
    fields:
      description: Comma-delimited names of fields to be returned in the response. Note - Field names are case-sensitive and only first-level fields are supported. Invalid field names are ignored.
      in: query
      name: fields
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    offset:
      description: The offset position of the first record in the results response array. For example, if offset is 100, the first item in the results array in the response is the 100th record in the search result list.
      in: query
      name: offset
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int64
    authHeaderParam:
      description: Construct oAuth2 authentication token
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
  schemas:
    messageModel:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          description: The message id assigned by the Civic Platform server.
          format: int64
          type: integer
        isRead:
          description: Indicates whether or not an announcement has been read by the logged-in user.
          enum:
          - Y
          - N
          type: string
        startEffectDate:
          description: The starting effective date.
          format: date-time
          type: string
        text:
          description: The announcement text.
          type: string
        title:
          description: The announcement title.
          type: string
    response_resultModelArray:
      type: object
      properties:
        result:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/resultModel'
          type: array
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP return status.
    response_messageModelArray:
      type: object
      properties:
        result:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/messageModel'
          type: array
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP return status.
    resultModel:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          description: The error code, if an error is encountered.
          type: string
        id:
          description: The system id of the object in this operation.
          format: int64
          type: integer
        isSuccess:
          description: Indicates whether or not the operation on the object is successful.
          type: boolean
        message:
          description: The error message, if an error is encountered
          type: string
x-api-evangelist-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-06'
  method: searched
  source: https://developer.accela.com/api/v4/v4-citizens.json
  note: Harvested verbatim from the Accela Developer Portal API Reference, which renders these Swagger 2.0 documents via ReDoc (spec-url on developer.accela.com/docs/api_reference/api-*.html). The byte-identical original is kept at openapi/_original/. This copy is the same document serialized to YAML.
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