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Amazing Marvin

The Amazing Marvin modules allow you to create, update, search, retrieve, and delete the tasks from your Amazing Marvin account.

Getting Started with Amazing Marvin

Prerequisites

An Amazing Marvin account - create an account at amazingmarvin.com/.

Connecting Amazing Marvin to Ibexa Connect

To connect your Amazing Marvin account to Ibexa Connect you need to obtain the API Key from your Amazing Marvin account and insert it in the Create a connection dialog in the Ibexa Connect module.

1. Log in to your Amazing Marvin account.

2. Go to URL Address, Amazing Marvin API Credentials

3. Copy the API Key to your clipboard

   

4. Log in to your Ibexa Connect account, add a module from the Amazing Marvin app into an Ibexa Connect scenario.

5. Click Add next to the Connection field.

   

6. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

7. In the API Key enter the details copied in step 3 and click Continue.

The connection has been established.

Connecting Amazing Marvin database to Ibexa Connect

The Update a Task, Search Tasks, Delete a Task, Get a Task, and Make an API Call modules all require a database connection with Amazing Marvin. You need API credentials from Amazing Marvin.

1. Log in to your Amazing Marvin account.

2. Go to URL Address, Amazing Marvin API Credentials

3. Copy the syncUser, syncPassword, syncServer, and syncDatabase fields. Keep this open in a separate tab or browser for easier copy-pasting.

   

4. Log in to your Ibexa Connect account, add a Update a Task, Search Tasks, Delete a Task, Get a Task, or Make an API Call module from the Amazing Marvin app into an Ibexa Connect scenario.

5. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

6. Enter the syncUser key in the Username field.

   

7. Enter the syncPassword key in the Password field.

8. Enter the syncServer key in the Database URL field.

9. Enter the syncDatabase key in the Database Name field.

Task

Create a Task

Creates a new task.

Done	Select whether the task needs to be done.
Day	Enter (map) the day on which the task is to be executed.
Title	Enter (map) a title for the task to create.
Parent ID	Enter (map) a Parent ID for the task to create.
Label IDs	Select or map the Label IDs to add to the task.
First Scheduled	Enter (map) the scheduled date for the task.
Rank	Enter (map) the rank for the task to update.
Daily Section	Select the daily section for the task: Morning Afternoon Evening
Bonus Section	Enter (map) the bonus sections for the task.
Note	Enter (map) the note for the task being created.
Due Date	Enter (map) the due date to create the task.

Update a Task

Updates a task.

Username	Enter (map) the syncUser details of your account.
Password	Enter (map) the syncPassword details of your account.
Database URL	Enter (map) the syncServer details of your account.
Database Name	Enter (map) the syncDatabase details of your account.
Task ID	Select or map the Task ID to update a task.
Done	Select whether the task needs to be done.
Day	Enter (map) the day on which the task is to be executed.
Title	Enter (map) a title for the task to create.
Parent ID	Enter (map) a Parent ID for the task to update.
Label IDs	Select or map the Label IDs to add to the task.
First Scheduled	Enter (map) the updated scheduled date for the task.
Rank	Enter (map) the rank for the task to update.
Daily Section	Select the daily section for the task: Morning Afternoon Evening
Bonus Section	Enter (map) the bonus sections for the task.
Note	Enter (map) the updated note for the task.
Due Date	Enter (map) the due date to create the task.

Search Tasks

Searches for a specific task or lists them all.

Done	Select whether the task needs to be done.
Day	Enter (map) the day on which the task was executed to search.
Title	Enter (map) a title for the task to search.
Parent ID	Enter (map) a Parent ID for the task to search.
Label IDs	Select or map the Label IDs to search the task.
First Scheduled	Enter (map) the scheduled date of the task to retrieve.
Rank	Enter (map) the rank of the task to search.
Daily Section	Select the daily section for the task: Morning Afternoon Evening
Bonus Section	Enter (map) the bonus sections for the task.
Note	Enter (map) the note for the task being created.
Due Date	Enter (map) the due date of the task to search.
Limit	Set the maximum number of tasks Ibexa Connect should return during one execution cycle. The default value is 10.

Delete a Task

Deletes a task.

Task ID	Select or map the Task ID to delete a task.

Get a Task

Returns a certain task.

Task ID	Select or map the Task ID to retrieve a task.

Others

Make an API Call

Makes an API request to Database using CouchDB API

URL	Enter a path relative to https://512940bf-6e0c-4d7b-884b-9fc66185836b-bluemix.cloudant.com For example: /_all_docs For the list of available endpoints, refer to the CouchDB API Documentation.
Method	Select the HTTP method you want to use: GET to retrieve information for an entry. POST to create a new entry. PUT to update/replace an existing entry. PATCH to make a partial entry update. DELETE to delete an entry.
Headers	Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.
Query String	Enter the request query string.
Body	Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of Use - List

The following API call returns all documents from your Amazing Marvin account:

URL: /_all_docs

Method: GET

Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body. In our example, 56 documents were returned: