Webex Events

Navigate to the Webex Events Developer Portal at **developer.webex.com** and sign in with your Webex Events account credentials. Look for the documentation section specific to Webex Events (not Webex Meetings or Webex by Cisco — these are distinct platforms with different APIs). For development and testing, generate a **personal access token** directly from the developer portal. This token represents your user account and allows you to call the API on behalf of yourself. Copy the token value — it is a long string, typically beginning with a recognizable prefix. Store it securely in a password manager. **Critical note on token TTL:** Personal access tokens for the Webex platform expire after 12 hours. Verify in the Webex Events documentation whether your token has the same expiry or a longer TTL. If it expires after 12 hours, you will need to re-generate it manually for development, or set up the OAuth service app flow (described at the end of this step) for production. For **production use**, register a service app in the Webex Events developer portal with the appropriate API scopes for your integration (event reading, attendee registration, webhook management). The service app OAuth flow provides tokens with longer lifespans suitable for background workflows. Store the client credentials securely — you will use them in a Bubble Backend Workflow that fetches and refreshes tokens, saving them with an expiry timestamp in your Bubble database. Note: The API scopes available in Webex Events, the token TTL, and the exact OAuth flow may differ from the general Webex platform documentation. Always verify the Webex Events-specific API section at developer.webex.com before implementing the token refresh logic.

In your Bubble editor, go to the **Plugins** tab → **Add plugins** → search for **'API Connector'** (by Bubble) → **Install**. Click the API Connector in your plugins list → **Add another API**. Name it `Webex Events`. In the **Base URL** field, enter the current Webex Events API base URL. Verify this at developer.webex.com — historically the Webex platform API used `https://webexapis.com/v1` as a base, but Webex Events (formerly Socio) may have a distinct endpoint. If the documentation shows a different base URL specific to the event management platform, use that. In the **Shared headers** section, add two headers: 1. Key: `Authorization`, Value: `Bearer <your_token>`, Private: **checked** (critical — this marks the token as server-side only) 2. Key: `Content-Type`, Value: `application/json`, Private: unchecked Click **Save** on the API configuration before adding calls. **Authentication type**: Set to 'None' (you are manually providing the token in the Authorization header, so you do not need Bubble's built-in auth type). This is the standard Private header approach for Bearer token APIs in Bubble. For **production with token refresh**: When your service app token expires, you will need a Backend Workflow that POSTs to the Webex Events OAuth token endpoint with your client credentials to get a fresh token, stores it in a Bubble data type (name it `WebexEvents_Token` with fields: `access_token` text, `expires_at` date), and all API calls dynamically reference the stored token rather than a hardcoded header value. This pattern is similar to the Zoom Server-to-Server OAuth token management approach.

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Inside the Webex Events API configuration, click **Add a call**. You will create two read calls for retrieving event and session data. **Call 1: List Events** - Name: `List Events` - Method: GET - Endpoint path: `/events` (verify the exact path in Webex Events API documentation) - Use as: **Data** (this returns a list, which Bubble can bind to a Repeating Group) - Initialize call: click **Initialize call** with no parameters needed for a basic list. If the call returns a 200 response with event objects, Bubble auto-detects the response fields. If it returns a 401 Unauthorized, your token is expired or incorrect. **Call 2: List Sessions for an Event** - Name: `List Sessions` - Method: GET - Endpoint path: `/events/{{eventId}}/sessions` (replace `sessions` and `eventId` with the exact parameter names from Webex Events documentation) - Add a parameter: `eventId` (type: text, dynamic) - Use as: **Data** - Initialize call: enter a real event ID from your Webex Events account to initialize the call After initializing both calls, Bubble will show all the detected response fields (event name, description, start/end date, session ID, etc.) in the API Connector panel. These become available to reference in your Bubble workflows and page data bindings. If the API returns nested JSON (for example, events wrapped in a `data` array), check the **List** checkbox in the call configuration and specify the JSON path to the array using Bubble's path notation. Refer to Webex Events API documentation for the exact response envelope structure. Bubble's Logs tab → API Connector logs will show raw request and response data if you need to debug the response structure.

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8  },
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10    "name": "List Sessions",
11    "method": "GET",
12    "endpoint": "/events/<dynamic:eventId>/sessions",
13    "use_as": "Data",
14    "auth_header": "Authorization: Bearer <private>"
15  }
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Add a third API call for registering attendees — the write operation that is the core of a custom registration portal. **Call: Register Attendee** - Name: `Register Attendee` - Method: POST - Endpoint path: `/events/{{eventId}}/attendees` (verify exact path in Webex Events docs) - Use as: **Action** (this is a mutation, not a data read) - Body type: JSON - Body: ```json { "email": "<dynamic:attendee_email>", "firstName": "<dynamic:first_name>", "lastName": "<dynamic:last_name>" } ``` Add any additional required fields specified in the Webex Events attendee creation documentation. Mark all dynamic parameters with their appropriate Bubble parameter names. Initialize the call using real test values (a real event ID, a test email address) to get a successful response from Webex Events. Now build the **registration workflow in Bubble**: 1. Create a registration page with Input fields for first name, last name, email, and any other attendee information your event requires. 2. Add a Submit button. In the button's workflow, first add validation: 'When all inputs are not empty and email field is valid email format'. 3. Add a workflow step: **Plugins → Webex Events - Register Attendee**. Pass: - `eventId`: the ID of your event (either hardcoded if there is one event, or selected dynamically from a dropdown linked to the List Events data source) - `attendee_email`, `first_name`, `last_name`: the Input element values 4. Add a second step: **Data (Things) → Create a new Webex_Registration**. Create this data type with fields: `attendee_id` (text), `event_id` (text), `email` (text), `registered_at` (date). Store the `attendeeId` returned in the Register Attendee response so you can sync or reference it later. 5. Add a final step: navigate to a confirmation page or show a success alert. Apply **privacy rules** to the Webex_Registration data type: Data tab → Privacy → add a rule that restricts this type to the current user only (or admin role). Registration records contain email addresses and should not be publicly readable.

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6  "body": {
7    "email": "<dynamic:attendee_email>",
8    "firstName": "<dynamic:first_name>",
9    "lastName": "<dynamic:last_name>"
10  },
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12}

Fetching session data from the Webex Events API on every page load is inefficient and consumes your API rate limit budget. For an agenda page that many attendees will view, the better pattern is to cache session data in Bubble's database and refresh it on a schedule. Create a Bubble data type called `WebexEvent_Session` with fields matching the Webex Events session object: - `session_id` (text, unique identifier) - `title` (text) - `description` (text) - `start_time` (date) - `end_time` (date) - `track` (text) - `speakers` (text or a related data type) - `event_id` (text) - `synced_at` (date) Create a Backend Workflow (paid Bubble plan) named `Sync Webex Sessions`: 1. Add action: **Plugins → Webex Events - List Sessions** with your event ID. 2. Add action: **Data (Things) → Delete a list of Things** — delete all existing WebexEvent_Session records for this event (to refresh from scratch). Alternatively, use 'Make changes to a list of Things' to update existing records and create new ones. 3. Add action: **Data (Things) → Create a new WebexEvent_Session** for each session returned. Use Bubble's 'Schedule API Workflow on a list' if the API returns multiple sessions — this creates one database record per session item. Schedule this Backend Workflow to run every 4-6 hours using Bubble's **Recurring Backend Workflow** feature (paid plan). On your agenda page, display sessions from the Bubble database (not directly from the API). Use a Repeating Group with data source = 'Search for WebexEvent_Sessions' filtered and sorted as needed. This is much faster for users and does not expose the Webex Events API to load spikes from high traffic. For a live indicator ('Session starting soon'), add a condition on the Repeating Group cell that compares `session's start_time` with `Current date/time` and shows a visual indicator within 15 minutes of start.

For real-time event tracking — attendee check-ins, session joins, gamification points, networking connections — Webex Events can send HTTP POST webhook notifications to a URL you register. Bubble's Backend Workflow API can act as that receiver. First, enable the Bubble Workflow API: go to **Settings → API** in your Bubble editor. Check **'This app exposes a Workflow API'**. This requires a paid Bubble plan (Starter or higher). Create a Backend Workflow named `Receive Webex Events Webhook`: - In the workflow settings, check **'This workflow can be run without authentication'** (Webex Events will not send auth headers that match Bubble's token system) - Click **'Detect request data'** and then in Webex Events' webhook configuration, send a test event to the Bubble endpoint URL (`https://yourappname.bubbleapps.io/api/1.1/wf/receive-webex-events-webhook`). Bubble will auto-detect the JSON structure. - After detection, add workflow steps to process the data: **Create a new Webex_Event_Log** (data type with fields: event_type text, attendee_id text, session_id text, timestamp date, raw_payload text) Register the Bubble endpoint URL in your Webex Events account's webhook settings. Select which event types to subscribe to (check-in, session join, etc.). **Important note on the /initialize suffix**: When Bubble auto-generates the Backend Workflow URL for testing webhook detection, it may append `/initialize` to the URL. Do NOT register the `/initialize` URL with Webex Events — use the base workflow URL without that suffix for production webhook delivery. The `/initialize` endpoint is only for Bubble's setup process. Apply privacy rules to the Webex_Event_Log data type to restrict access to admin users. RapidDev's team has built dozens of event management Bubble apps with webhook receivers and real-time dashboards — if you need help with complex event processing logic, a free scoping call is at rapidevelopers.com/contact.

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3  "note": "Register this URL (NOT the /initialize variant) in Webex Events webhook settings",
4  "example_webex_event_payload": {
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