App Location Installations

You can control the order of apps in specific locations.

For more information on locations, see Setting the app location in the Apps developer docs.

JSON format

App Installation Locations are represented as JSON objects with the following properties:

Name	Type	Read-only	Mandatory	Description
installations	array	false	false	An array of app installation ids
location_name	string	false	false	Location name. Example: nav_bar

Example

{
  "installations": [
    8765,
    5678
  ],
  "location_name": "nav_bar"
}

List Location Installations

• GET /api/v2/apps/location_installations

Allowed for

• Admins

Code Samples

curl

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations.json \
  -u {email_address}:{password}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "username:password"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations")
		.newBuilder();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", Credentials.basic("your-email", "your-password"))
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "username:password"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=('<username>', '<password>'),
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.basic_auth "username", "password"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "location_installations": [
    {
      "installations": [
        82,
        56
      ],
      "location_name": "nav_bar"
    },
    {
      "installations": [
        111,
        82,
        87,
        56,
        46,
        96,
        77
      ],
      "location_name": "ticket_sidebar"
    },
    {
      "installations": [
        111,
        82,
        56
      ],
      "location_name": "new_ticket_sidebar"
    },
    {
      "installations": [
        106,
        91
      ],
      "location_name": "top_bar"
    }
  ]
}

Reorder App Installations For Location

• POST /api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder

Creates or updates the relevant location installation with a specified installation order.

When implementing this API in response to a user reordering installations, ensure you throttle your API calls to a reasonable limit.

Allowed For

• Admins

Code Samples

curl

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder.json \
  -d '{"installations": [82, 56], "location_name": "nav_bar"}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -u {email_address}:{password}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder"
	method := "POST"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "username:password"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
""");

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", Credentials.basic("your-email", "your-password"))
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "username:password"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=('<username>', '<password>'),
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/apps/location_installations/reorder")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.basic_auth "username", "password"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

201 Created

// Status 201 Created

{
  "location_installation": {
    "installations": [
      82,
      56
    ],
    "location_name": "nav_bar"
  }
}