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Skill Categories

A Skill Category represents the classification for a group of skills. Options are 'Skill', 'Language', 'Certification', and 'Other'.

Skill categories are defined by Kantata OX and cannot be modified or deleted.

Operations

Fetching a list of Skill Categories

Request

This endpoint returns structured Skill Category objects. As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the results array and will be indexed by ID in the skill_categories top-level JSON key. Please see our Response Format section for more information.

Query
includestring

Any of the below associations can be included in your request by providing the include param, e.g. include=association1,association2.

  • skills (Skill) - The skills associated with each skill category.
matchingstring

Skill category names that are like the specified name.

onlystring

Allows you to request one or more resources directly by ID. Multiple IDs can be supplied in a comma separated list, like GET /api/v1/workspaces.json?only=5,6,7.

orderstring

Supply order with the name of a valid sort field for the endpoint and a direction.

Valid values: alphabetical:asc and alphabetical:desc.

Default:"alphabetical:asc"
pageinteger, (int32)
Default:1
per_pageinteger, (int32), <= 200
Default:20
GET
/skill_categories
curl -i -X GET \
  'https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1/skill_categories?include=string&matching=string&only=string&order=alphabetical%3Aasc&page=1&per_page=20'

Responses

A list of Skill Categories have been retrieved.

Bodyapplication/json
countinteger, (int32)
metaobject
resultsArray of objects
skill_categoriesobject
skillsobject
Response
{
  "count": 0,
  "meta": {
    "count": 0,
    "page_count": 0,
    "page_number": 0,
    "page_size": 0
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "key": "string",
      "id": "string"
    }
  ],
  "skill_categories": {
    "property1": {
      "name": "string",
      "skill_ids": [
        "string"
      ]
    },
    "property2": {
      "name": "string",
      "skill_ids": [
        "string"
      ]
    }
  },
  "skills": {
    "property1": {
      "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "description": "string",
      "external_reference_ids": [
        "string"
      ],
      "max_level": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "skill_category_id": "string",
      "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
    },
    "property2": {
      "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "description": "string",
      "external_reference_ids": [
        "string"
      ],
      "max_level": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "skill_category_id": "string",
      "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
    }
  }
}