Creating an event via API

Question

Hello there,I’m new to this community and was wondering if you can give me some guidance in a simple integration we are working on.We already have a profile created on the platform, and I want to create an Event using the API. I’m following this documentation: https://developers.klaviyo.com/en/reference/create_eventEverything works ok, but I can’t understand why we need to attach all those Profile attributes, like name, address, etc. Is there a way to simple “attach the event View Product Page” to an existing Profile, using its ID?Thanks in advance!

KeviSunshine · Accepted Answer

Hi @gustavog,You absolutely do not need to do that. I’ve never used this exact API (I’m using an older version of a POST event api), but you should only need a profile identifier (ID, email, phone), and an event name.The API in the article you linked to is extremely verbose and unnecessary. I wish they showeda simplified version.It should be something like this, but even this is verbose.{ "data": { "type": "event", "attributes": { "properties": { "newKey": "New Value" }, "time": "2022-11-08T00:00:00", "value": 9.99, "metric": { "data": { "type": "metric", "attributes": { "name": "Viewed Product" } } }, "profile": { "data": { "type": "profile", "id": "01GDDKASAP8TKDDA2GRZDSVP4H" } } }}With an older endpoint my request body is as simple as this…{ "token": "<...>", "event": "EVENT_NAME", "customer_properties": { "$email": "" // This is the profile identifier "new field": "whatever you'd like" // this will add this new field to the profile }, "properties": { // Anything you want here, object, array, etc. These are the event properties. }}

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