WorkBoard Goal (Objective) API

The Goal (Objective) API from WorkBoard — 5 operation(s) for goal (objective).

Operations 6

GET /goal Get Goals using parameters to filter results.
POST /goal Create a goal for a user in your organization, including metrics sourced from the same person. Make sure you have `Data-Admin` permission for your access token.
GET /goal/{goal_id_path} Get Goals using parameters to filter results.
GET /goal/{goal_id_path}/metric/{metric_id_path} List data for one metric (specified by the metric_id parameter) associated with the goal specified by the goal_id parameter.
GET /goal/{goal_id_path}/pillars Get a Goal's associated `strategies` and `pillars` from WorkBoard Strategy. Note, the logged in user must have Data-Admin permission and have access to WorkBoard Strategy in order
GET /goal/{goal_id_path}/alignment List aligned and dependent goals associated with the goal specified by the goal_id parameter. Note, the logged in user must have Data-Admin permission in order to view the goal ali

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OpenAPI Specification

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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: WorkBoard External Public Goal (Objective) API
  description: <h4>This is the API documentation for WorkBoard's version 1 REST API.</h4><p>WorkBoard's API provides resources to allow developers to interact with user, goal, and metric data in WorkBoard. All resources can be accessed via REST with GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests. For GET requests, query parameters can be passed as part of the request URL. All GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests must include the Bearer Token authorization header with the provided token you generate.</p><p>Click here to view the [changelog](./changes.html).<p>Click here to view the [Open API JSON file](./openapi.json).</p><p><strong>If you are interested in working in a demo instance, please contact your WorkBoard representative.<br/>WorkBoard's production server API root is https://www.myworkboard.com/wb/apis.</strong></p>
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
- url: https://demo.biz.wobo-int.com/wb/apis
  description: Demo Server
tags:
- name: Goal (Objective)
paths:
  /goal:
    get:
      summary: Get Goals using parameters to filter results.
      description: ''
      tags:
      - Goal (Objective)
      parameters:
      - name: id
        description: Optional. A unique numerical id assigned to each goal. Include this parameter to return attributes of the specified goal only; otherwise all goals will be returned.
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: goal_owner_id
        description: Either the unique user id or email address belonging to the goal owner. Include this parameter to return all goals belonging to the specified owner. (Note, if both `goal_owner_id` and `goal_id` parameters are include in the request, `goal_owner_id` will be ignored).
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: team_id
        description: The unique numerical id assigned to each team in WorkBoard. Include this parameter to return metrics belonging to the specified team.
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: team_owner_id
        description: Either the unique user id or email address belonging to the team owner. Include this parameter to return all goals belonging to the specified team owner. (Note, if both `team_owner_id` and `team_id` parameters are include in the request, `team_owner_id` will be ignored.)
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: goal_status
        description: 'The current state of the goal; permitted values are "1" (active) or "2" (closed). If you want both closed and active goals, then set `goal_status` to the comma separated values: "1,2"'
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: include
        description: This will return the `goal_custom_permission` object, which includes data related to any custom permissions.
        in: query
        schema:
          enum:
          - custom_permission
      - name: custom_attributes
        description: This will return the `custom_attributes` array when set to 1, which includes goals custom fields.
        in: query
        schema:
          enum:
          - '1'
      - name: limit
        description: The number of tags returned per page. Permitted values are integers greater than or equal to 0. The default value is 15.
        in: query
        schema:
          default: 15
          type: integer
      - name: offset
        description: Specify the starting point for the results returned. Permitted values are integers greater than or equal to 0. The default value is 0.
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  success:
                    type: boolean
                    readOnly: true
                  message:
                    type: string
                    readOnly: true
                  data:
                    type: object
                    readOnly: true
                    properties:
                      totalCount:
                        type: integer
                      goal:
                        description: 'Returns one of the responses below depending upon the parameters: `goal_id`, no ID or `team_id`.'
                        oneOf:
                        - type: object
                          description: A single goal object.
                          properties:
                            goal_id:
                              type: string
                            goal_name:
                              type: string
                            goal_narrative:
                              type: string
                            goal_type:
                              type: object
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                name:
                                  type: string
                            goal_owner:
                              type: string
                            goal_create_at:
                              type: string
                            goal_modified_at:
                              type: string
                            goal_created_by:
                              type: string
                            goal_updated_by:
                              type: string
                            goal_start_date:
                              type: string
                            goal_target_date:
                              type: string
                            goal_progress:
                              type: string
                            goal_progress_color:
                              type: string
                            goal_status:
                              description: The status of the goal. Possible values are 1 = active and 2 = closed.
                              type: string
                            goal_permission:
                              type: string
                            goal_category:
                              type: array
                              items:
                                type: object
                                description: An array of objects with the category identifier and name for the category.
                                properties:
                                  id:
                                    type: string
                                  name:
                                    type: string
                            goal_workstreams:
                              type: array
                              items:
                                type: object
                                properties:
                                  id:
                                    type: string
                                  name:
                                    type: string
                            custom_attributes:
                              type:
                              - array
                              - 'null'
                              items:
                                type: object
                                description: An array of objects for each custom attribute value.
                                properties:
                                  id:
                                    description: The unique identifier for the custom attribute.
                                    type: string
                                  name:
                                    description: The name of the custom attribute.
                                    type: string
                                  value:
                                    description: The value of the custom attribute.
                                    type: string
                                  status:
                                    description: 'The status of the custom attribute: '
                                    type: string
                            goal_custom_permission:
                              description: Returned when `include=custom_permission` is included.
                              type:
                              - object
                              - 'null'
                              properties:
                                goal_permission_team_ids:
                                  description: Comma separated string of the team identifiers that have permission to view the goal.
                                  type: string
                            goal_owner_full_name:
                              type: string
                            goal_team_id:
                              type: string
                            goal_team_name:
                              type: string
                            goal_metrics:
                              type: array
                              items:
                                type: object
                                properties:
                                  metric_id:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_owner:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_real_owner:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_name:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_update_interval:
                                    type: object
                                    properties:
                                      id:
                                        type: string
                                      name:
                                        type: string
                                  metric_update_interval_day:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_unit:
                                    type: object
                                    properties:
                                      id:
                                        type: string
                                      name:
                                        type: string
                                  metric_progress_type:
                                    type: object
                                    properties:
                                      id:
                                        type: string
                                      name:
                                        type: string
                                  metric_counting_type:
                                    type: object
                                    properties:
                                      id:
                                        type: string
                                      name:
                                        type: string
                                  metric_initial_data:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_target:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_achieve_target:
                                    description: What has been achieved against the `metric_target`.
                                    type: string
                                  metric_create_at:
                                    type: string
                                    description: The GMT timestamp value for the created at time.
                                  metric_modified_at:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_created_by:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_updated_by:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_progress:
                                    description: The `metric_achieve_target` divided by the `metric_target` as a percent.
                                    type: string
                                  metric_progress_color:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_last_update:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_next_update:
                                    type: string
                                  metric_source_from:
                                    description: The textual source for the Metric update. In the case of a mirrored Metric, this will be the user responsible for the update and the source Metric name.
                                    type: string
                                  metric_source_from_id:
                                    description: 'The source for metric data updates. Possible values are:<br/>"1" - For an individual user.<br/>"2" - For a Workstream<br/>"3" - For a rollup of another Goal or Metric<br/>"4" - A workstream''s cycle time<br/>"5" - Survey<br/>"7" - Other Goals<br/>"8" - External sources<br/>"10" - Datastream(s)<br/>"11" - For a mirrored Metric<br/>"12" - MIT: Multi-interval time period person<br/>"13" - MIT: Multi-interval time period automated datastream<br/>"14" - MIT: Multi-interval time period populates Q1,Q2, Q3, Q4.'
                                    type: string
                                  last_metric_comment:
                                    description: Only returned when querying for an individual goal.
                                    type: object
                                    properties:
                                      comment:
                                        type: string
                                      comment_last_updated:
                                        type: string
                            goal_metrics_count:
                              type: string
                            goal_comments:
                              type: array
                              items:
                                type: object
                                properties:
                                  comment_id:
                                    type: string
                                  comment_text:
                                    type: string
                                  comment_owner:
                                    type: string
                                  comment_owner_name:
                                    type: string
                                  comment_added_at:
                                    type: string
                                  comment_last_updated:
                                    type: string
                            goal_comments_count:
                              type: string
                        - type: array
                          items:
                            type: object
                            description: Returns if no `goal_id` or `team_id` is included in the parameters.
                            properties:
                              user_id:
                                type: string
                              user_email:
                                type: string
                              user_first_name:
                                type: string
                              user_last_name:
                                type: string
                              people_goals:
                                type: array
                                items:
                                  type: object
                                  description: A single goal object.
                                  properties:
                                    goal_id:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_name:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_narrative:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_type:
                                      type: object
                                      properties:
                                        id:
                                          type: string
                                        name:
                                          type: string
                                    goal_owner:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_create_at:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_modified_at:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_created_by:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_updated_by:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_start_date:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_target_date:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_progress:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_progress_color:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_status:
                                      description: The status of the goal. Possible values are 1 = active and 2 = closed.
                                      type: string
                                    goal_permission:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_category:
                                      type: array
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        description: An array of objects with the category identifier and name for the category.
                                        properties:
                                          id:
                                            type: string
                                          name:
                                            type: string
                                    goal_workstreams:
                                      type: array
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        properties:
                                          id:
                                            type: string
                                          name:
                                            type: string
                                    custom_attributes:
                                      type:
                                      - array
                                      - 'null'
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        description: An array of objects for each custom attribute value.
                                        properties:
                                          id:
                                            description: The unique identifier for the custom attribute.
                                            type: string
                                          name:
                                            description: The name of the custom attribute.
                                            type: string
                                          value:
                                            description: The value of the custom attribute.
                                            type: string
                                          status:
                                            description: 'The status of the custom attribute: '
                                            type: string
                                    goal_custom_permission:
                                      description: Returned when `include=custom_permission` is included.
                                      type:
                                      - object
                                      - 'null'
                                      properties:
                                        goal_permission_team_ids:
                                          description: Comma separated string of the team identifiers that have permission to view the goal.
                                          type: string
                                    goal_owner_full_name:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_team_id:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_team_name:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_metrics:
                                      type: array
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        properties:
                                          metric_id:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_owner:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_real_owner:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_name:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_update_interval:
                                            type: object
                                            properties:
                                              id:
                                                type: string
                                              name:
                                                type: string
                                          metric_update_interval_day:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_unit:
                                            type: object
                                            properties:
                                              id:
                                                type: string
                                              name:
                                                type: string
                                          metric_progress_type:
                                            type: object
                                            properties:
                                              id:
                                                type: string
                                              name:
                                                type: string
                                          metric_counting_type:
                                            type: object
                                            properties:
                                              id:
                                                type: string
                                              name:
                                                type: string
                                          metric_initial_data:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_target:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_achieve_target:
                                            description: What has been achieved against the `metric_target`.
                                            type: string
                                          metric_create_at:
                                            type: string
                                            description: The GMT timestamp value for the created at time.
                                          metric_modified_at:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_created_by:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_updated_by:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_progress:
                                            description: The `metric_achieve_target` divided by the `metric_target` as a percent.
                                            type: string
                                          metric_progress_color:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_last_update:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_next_update:
                                            type: string
                                          metric_source_from:
                                            description: The textual source for the Metric update. In the case of a mirrored Metric, this will be the user responsible for the update and the source Metric name.
                                            type: string
                                          metric_source_from_id:
                                            description: 'The source for metric data updates. Possible values are:<br/>"1" - For an individual user.<br/>"2" - For a Workstream<br/>"3" - For a rollup of another Goal or Metric<br/>"4" - A workstream''s cycle time<br/>"5" - Survey<br/>"7" - Other Goals<br/>"8" - External sources<br/>"10" - Datastream(s)<br/>"11" - For a mirrored Metric<br/>"12" - MIT: Multi-interval time period person<br/>"13" - MIT: Multi-interval time period automated datastream<br/>"14" - MIT: Multi-interval time period populates Q1,Q2, Q3, Q4.'
                                            type: string
                                          last_metric_comment:
                                            description: Only returned when querying for an individual goal.
                                            type: object
                                            properties:
                                              comment:
                                                type: string
                                              comment_last_updated:
                                                type: string
                                    goal_metrics_count:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_comments:
                                      type: array
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        properties:
                                          comment_id:
                                            type: string
                                          comment_text:
                                            type: string
                                          comment_owner:
                                            type: string
                                          comment_owner_name:
                                            type: string
                                          comment_added_at:
                                            type: string
                                          comment_last_updated:
                                            type: string
                                    goal_comments_count:
                                      type: string
                        - type: array
                          description: Returned when `team_id` parameter is passed.
                          items:
                            type: object
                            description: Returns if `team_id` is included in the parameters.
                            properties:
                              team_id:
                                type: integer
                              team_name:
                                type: string
                              team_owner_id:
                                type: string
                              team_owner_email:
                                type: string
                              team_goals:
                                type: array
                                items:
                                  type: object
                                  description: A single goal object.
                                  properties:
                                    goal_id:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_name:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_narrative:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_type:
                                      type: object
                                      properties:
                                        id:
                                          type: string
                                        name:
                                          type: string
                                    goal_owner:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_create_at:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_modified_at:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_created_by:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_updated_by:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_start_date:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_target_date:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_progress:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_progress_color:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_status:
                                      description: The status of the goal. Possible values are 1 = active and 2 = closed.
                                      type: string
                                    goal_permission:
                                      type: string
                                    goal_category:
                                      type: array
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        description: An array of objects with the category identifier and name for the category.
                                        properties:
                                          id:
                                            type: string
                                          name:
                                            type: string
                                    goal_workstreams:
                                      type: array
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        properties:
                                          id:
                                            type: string
                                          name:
                                            type: string
                                    custom_attributes:
                                      type:
                                      - array
                                      - 'null'
                                      items:
                                        type: object
                                        description: An array of objects for each custom attribute value.
                                        properties:
                                          id:
                                            description: The unique identifier for the custom attribute.
                                            type: string
                                          name:
                                            description: The name of the custom attribute.
                                            type: string
                                          value:
                                            description: The value of the custom attribute.
                                            type: string
     

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