Relate the Pantaris Marketplace booking to our external Application and vice versa - help wanted

PANTARIS Platform Questions
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We currently provide our service via several marketplaces as Bosch IoT Insights. From there we see that some customer have multiple bookings of our service (e.g. 1 customer has 20 bookings).

With those marketplaces it is difficult for our customer to find the Bosch IoT Insights project in the marketplace. This is cumbersome when he wants to check the billing. And it is even critical when he wants to terminate a project and must guess the relation.


Marketplace booking Insights Project ID (random number)
bookingA Pxxxxx1
bookingB Pxxxxx9 customer wants to terminate project Pxxxxx9
...
bookingZ Pxxxxx4

We expect that some customer will also book more than 1 instance of Data Insights from Pantaris Marketplace:

  • how does a customer book multiple Data Insights projects (multiple service instances)?
  • which ID do we need from Pantaris to point to the proper booking?
    ** is there a URL to the booking we could display in Data Insights?
    ** will this ID also be valid for sending usage data for billing?
  • is this ID available as parameter to be used in the “External URL” setting of marketplace
    ** (e.g. <insights_host>/enter/PANTARIS_PROJECT_ID?ref=PANTARIS_PROJECT_ID&partner=Pantaris)

Thanks, Erwin

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Hi Erwin,

we are very sorry for the inconvenience but the specialists for this field are this week not available. You might want to wait for their answer.

  1. Currently a service is tied to a project and this is a unique relation. This means that a customer needs multiple projects to have multiple instances of the service.
  2. Not 100%, you might want to wait for the specialists:
    The ids you get are the ids of the project which you can use to create a link to open the project for the user. The id of a project will not change.
    However you are on another instance than I am, so I cannot give you the correct link you would need to build.
  3. I cannot answer this question.
    Correction: If you mean placeholders as the project url then you will probably have already seen the official documentation for this.
    I am sorry that I cannot provide the correct link, please try creating a new 3rd party app, you have a link to the placeholders and context there.
    Yes this is the project id.

I will rely your question for more information.

Regards,
Markus

3

Is there any news on that topic? To continue with Pantaris-Insights integration we need to clarify the open points Erwin was asking for.

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Hi @marcel.mager, would be good to see, what your need, but I can add another general answer

In case book means buy: Get familiar with subscriptions: Documentation | PANTARIS

In case book means activate:
Once there is a subscription, instance of the app can be activated in projects the organization frontend: Service > app > projecst “activate”-Button

which ID do we need from Pantaris to point to the proper booking?

booking = subscriptions (subscriptionId) or activation (project-application id)

is there a URL to the booking we could display in Data Insights?

See point before. You can link to the belonging PANTARIS Ui.

will this ID also be valid for sending usage data for billing?

Find the belonging documentation here: Documentation | PANTARIS

is this ID available as parameter to be used in the “External URL” setting of marketplace

Supported placeholders are listed here: Documentation | PANTARIS