Create a Time Entry for a Company Employee

Generate a new time entry in your ConstructionOnline company account on behalf of a specified employee.

 https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData?userID={id}&TimeInfo={info}

This endpoint allows you to create a new time entry in your ConstructionOnline company account on behalf of a specified company employee. If successful, the endpoint will return a record of the newly created purchase order. The new purchase order will be automatically assigned a unique name called 'name', which will be used for any future references. The required fields for this endpoint are the specified employee’s 'userID' and the 'startTime'; all other properties are optional and can be entered during time entry creation.

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Requests

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

userID: integer

• Unique identifier (ID) for the user.

Info: JSON

• Properties to be added to the time entry.
• Required property for the time entry: startTime
• Allowed properties for the time entry: projectId, costCode, startNote, endTime

Sample URL request:

• https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData?userID=885048&TimeInfo={"startTime":"2025-03-25T12:00:00"}

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key
# {id} with the user's ID
# {info} with time entry properties

curl -X POST https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData?userID={id}&TimeInfo={info} -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key
           {id} with the user's ID 
           {info} with time entry properties */

public string MakeRequest(string endpoint, string payload) {
     string username = {username};
     string password = {password};
     string apiKey = {apikey};
     string response = "";
      var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
          using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
           client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
           client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
           client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
           client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
           client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apiKey);
           client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
           HttpContent content = new StringContent(payload, System.Text.Encoding.UTF32, "application/json");
           response = client.PostAsync(endpoint, content).Result.ToString();
            }
      return response;
            }

     MakeRequest("api/TimeData?userID={id}&TimeInfo={info}"));

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{id} with the user's ID
#{info} with time entry properties

import base64, requests, json
#Global Variables
  apikey = {apikey}
  username = {username}
  password = {password}

#Functions
  def makeRequest(endpoint, payload):
       url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
       userPass = username + ":" + password    
       headers = {
                    "APIKey": apikey,
                    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
                    "Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
                }
       response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
       return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)   

#Main Program 
print(makeRequest("api/TimeData?userID={id}&TimeInfo={info}"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key
           {id} with the user's ID 
           {info} with time entry properties */

 username = '{username}';
 password = '{password}';
 apikey = '{apikey}';

 function makeRequest(endpoint, payload) {
          auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
          var myHeaders = new Headers();
          myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
          myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
          myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");

                var requestOptions = {
                    method: 'POST',
                    body: '',
                    headers: myHeaders,
                    redirect: 'follow'
                };
                fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
                    .then(response => response.text())
                    .then(result => console.log(result))
                    .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
                return response;
            };
 makeRequest("api/TimeData?userID={id}&TimeInfo={info}");

Responses

 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with a record of the newly created time entry in the body.

 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. 

 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

  500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: April 14, 2025