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Wiki

wiki_page_created

Definition: The event is emitted anytime a new wiki page is created by an end user or API request.

Trigger: Triggered when a new wiki page is created.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "event_name": "wiki_page_created",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:05.861Z",
    "job_id": "1020020528469291",
    "job_tag": "CC::Importer::CCWorker#perform",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs"
  },
  "body": {
    "body": "<p>page 1</p>",
    "title": "Page 1 Created",
    "wiki_page_id": "21070000000000009"
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
body The body of the new page. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
title The title of the new page. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
wiki_page_id The Canvas id of the new wiki page.

wiki_page_deleted

Definition: The event is emitted anytime a wiki page is deleted by an end user or API request.

Trigger: Triggered when a wiki page is deleted.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
    "context_account_id": "21070000000000079",
    "context_id": "21070000000000565",
    "context_role": "TeacherEnrollment",
    "context_sis_source_id": "2017.100.101.101-1",
    "context_type": "Course",
    "event_name": "wiki_page_deleted",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:13.729Z",
    "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
    "http_method": "DELETE",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/1013182/pages/ccs-online-logo-instructions?module_item_id=9653761",
    "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
    "session_id": "ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
    "time_zone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/1499839/pages/ccs-online-logo-instructions",
    "user_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
    "user_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_login": "oxana@example.com",
    "user_sis_id": "456-T45"
  },
  "body": {
    "title": "Page 1 Updated",
    "wiki_page_id": "21070000000000009"
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
title The title of the deleted wiki page. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
wiki_page_id The Canvas id of the deleted wiki page.

wiki_page_updated

Definition: The event is emitted anytime a wiki page is altered by an end user or API request.

Trigger: Triggered when title or body of wiki page is altered.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "event_name": "wiki_page_updated",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:25.788Z",
    "job_id": "1020020528469291",
    "job_tag": "ContentMigration#import_content",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs"
  },
  "body": {
    "body": "<p>page 1 - updated</p>",
    "old_body": "<p>page 1</p>",
    "old_title": "Page 1 Created",
    "title": "Page 1 Updated",
    "wiki_page_id": "21070000000000009"
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
body The new page body. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
old_body The old page body. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
old_title The old title. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
title The new title. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
wiki_page_id The Canvas id of the changed wiki page.

Note: Timestamps will be in ISO8601 format, including an offset. Be sure to take that into account when parsing, since it’s unspecified which offset timestamps will use, and the offset may even change between different timestamps within a single event.