XML API TIPS: Moving Virtual Classrooms to Meetings

You may have a situation arise where you want to move Virtual Classrooms (VCs) over to the Meeting area of Adobe Connect.  You may notice that if you try to move Virtual Classrooms, you only have the ability to move them within the confines of the Training module and not out to the Meetings area if you are using the UI.  There is an option however.  The API can be used to move VC’s either one by one or an easier way is to put them all into folders inside of the training area (in either Shared or User training folder) and then move the folders themselves (which in turn will move all the VCs inside of it).

The API process for doing this is:

https://{connect domain} /api/xml?action=sco-move&sco-id=xxxxxxx&folder-id=xxxxxxx

where:

sco-id = the sco-id of the VC (or folder that contains all the VCs you want to move)
folder-id = the folder-id of the destination folder you want to move the VC to.

** DO NOT move any main User Training folder or the Shared Training folder itself. ONLY move user-created folders or individual VCs themselves.

The process is not done however.  For each VC you move, you have to do one more step.  You need to change the icon of the VC to a meeting icon.  If you do not do this, the VC’s will NOT launch.  You won’t even be able to get to the information page for the VC once it’s moved.  The link to the VC information will simply refresh the meeting list page if you do not change the icon.

To finish the process change the icon by making this call:

https://{connect domain} /api/xml?action=sco-update&sco-id=xxxxxxx&icon=meeting

where:

sco-id = the sco-id of the VC you just moved.
icon=meeting

Now, the VC link will work and you will be able to get into the information page and access the links, content, reports, and archives.

Your application can handle building a list of VCs to move by using the sco-contents or sco-expanded-contents API calls (filtering on ‘icon=virtual-classroom’) to list out all VC’s in a specific folder or across the account as a whole, should you want to move everything for example.  Then your application would loop through and not only move the VCs but then also loop through each and change the icon.  If you only want to move one or two, you can simply do this in the browser with the API calls above.

It’s important to note that the uploaded content and any archives associated with this will be retained, HOWEVER in the reports, you will notice you are missing the ‘By Course’ report.  That is LOST with the move.  ‘By Course’ report is essentially the difference between a meeting and a VC.  So if you move VCs to meetings, that report is gone.  You still will have ‘By Attendees’ , ‘By Session’, and ‘By Questions’ (which are poll pod questions, not courses) reporting that will be retained.

Of course moving meetings to training will work the opposite way.  You finish that process off by changing the icon from ‘meeting’ to ‘virtual-classroom’.