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Feature: multiple Variables per Input Request

9 months ago by Mark Healey

Happy Halloween 🎃 We are excited to share the newest feature available in our API: multiple Variables per Input Request!

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This is an all-new feature and a breaking change

Before today's release of version 1.1.0, our API associated a single Variable with a single Input Request. That is, each question had a corresponding value. Consider this example: 

{
  ...,
  question: "Is your income above $138,000?"
  backlink: {
   variable: "Income_Above_Limit?",
   value: true
  }
  form: {
  	name: "Income_Above_Limit?",
    value: true,
    answer: "Yes"
    ...,
  }
}

With this latest update, the Input Request property has exploded to include much more data than before, supporting multiple Variables. Here is an example:

{
  ...,
  question: "What is the first tier of your company match?",
  forms: [
    {
      backlink: {
        variable: "401K_Tier1_Match_Pct",
			  value: 1
      },
      name: "401K_Tier1_Match_Pct",
    },
    {
      text: "up to"
    },
    {
      backlink: {
        variable: "401K_Tier1_Up_To_Pct",
			  value: 1
      },
      name: "401K_Tier1_Up_To_Pct",
    },
  ],
}

This new format enables interfaces like the one shown below with two input fields for a single question.