Meetings Getting Started

Meetings Getting Started

Introduction

Meetings Overview

[TODO] Intro on payload and response

Dev portal - how to create integration

• Integrations are how you request permission to invoke the Webex REST API on behalf of another Webex user.
• Go to the Webex Developer Portal.
• This step requires a developer to create a developer account. This step is necessary to create an application with a specific scope, and in return, you get back ClientID and ClientSecret.
• For more information, visit Webex Integrations Documentation.
• Create a new integration here.

Guest issues app creation

• Go to the Webex Developer Portal.
• Create a new guest issuer.

Oauth

• For information on getting an access token, refer this documentation.

Client app creation and initialize the Webex SDK

• Create the app or web page and follow the Webex Web SDK Importing and Initializing Guide.

Meetings

1. Create a USM meeting

• USM meeting documentation
  • Space creation from the dev portal hydra room ID - developer portal
  • Generate the access token from here
  • Make sure you're signed in to the Developer Portal.
  • Create a Webex space and invite people - API Documentation
  • Every room/space is associated with a room ID:

{
        "id": "Y2lzY29zcGFyazovL3VzL1JPT00vYzVlNjgxODAtMDkxMy0xMWVkLWFmZjQtYTc5YzYwNWU1MEKl",
        "title": "Ask Web SDK",
        "type": "group",
        "isLocked": false,
        "lastActivity": "2022-08-25T07:30:18.466Z",
        "creatorId": "Y2lzY29zcGFyazovL3VzL1BFT1BMRS8zNDRlYTE4My05ZDVkLTRlNzctYWVkMi1jNGYwMDRhZmR6NUV",
        "created": "2022-07-21T16:40:04.760Z",
        "ownerId": "Y2lzY29zcGFyazovL3VzL09SR0FOSVpBVElPTi8xZWI2NWZkZi05NjQzLTQxN2YtOTk3NC1hZDcyY2FlMGVyNHZ",
        "isPublic": false
}

• In this, the id field is the Room ID / Hydra ID. This room ID can be used to create a meeting as mentioned below.

• how the license works for space meeting or Webex meeting link [here]

• [TODO] Find the link for this

• Talk about meetings API, ad-hoc meetings, and scheduled meetings in a space to get back meeting information.

  1. If using guest to guest, please call the service app before making /meetings API call.

• Guests who are joining after the meeting starts in a space.

• Go to step 3.

2. creating a plain Webex meeting

• Link to the Webex meeting intro and license.
• Service app creation
  • Go to the https://developer.webex.com/my-apps
  • Create a new service app - https://developer.webex.com/my-apps/new/service-app
  • Provide name, description, scopes and all the required options and submit -

• The developer will get the client ID and secrets.
• Authorize service app - by org admin You need to get the service app approved from admin.cisco.com (once app is approved, we got the machine account)
• For more information, visit Webex Service App Documentation.
• generate access token - In the org authorization copy the secret and generate the access token

• there's an access token for the user, and this user is of machine type, which is a machine account.

3. How to use the /meetings API

• creating a meeting using the meeting id/sipaddress, meeting link etc.