The Civic Platform
Accela Civic Platform provides a complete civic engagement platform that fits the needs of government agencies large and small, streamlines civic processes and engages entire communities. Accela Automation is the heart of the Civic Platform, and is powering hundreds of governments of all sizes as a complete solution for automating critical tasks associated with permitting, licensing, code enforcement, community development, planning, inspections and investigations, infrastructure. asset management, emergency response, and many more.
The Civic Platform developer program lets you extend existing solutions, build custom solutions and apps that can be used by the agency staff and the citizens. These apps create efficiencies for agency staff, while increasing citizen engagement with government.
Developer Resources
The Developer Portal is a single, central location for all the tools and resources needed to develop solutions, apps for the Civic Platform.
Test Resources
Accela Automation test site provides a sandbox area for developing mobile applications.
Accela Automation for Apps
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V3 API Change Log
January 2015 Update
| API | URI | Change Description |
| Get Single Inspection | GET /v3/inspections/{id} | New estimatedStartTime and estimatedEndTime response fields. |
| Advanced Search Inspections | POST /v3/search/inspections | New filter.status request field |
May 2015 Update
| API | URI | Change Description |
| Advanced Search Inspections | POST /v3/search/inspections | New score response field which contains the total score for the inspection. |
July 2015 Update
| API | URI | Change Description |
| Create Report | POST /v3/reports/{reportId} | Fixed exception 500 (code:1005) from Create Report API which prevented app users from using the report feature. |
October 2015 Update
| API | URI | Change Description |
| Get Record ASIs | GET /v3/records/{id}/asis | Fixed missing ASI data type. |
| Get Record ASITs | GET /v3/records/{id}/asits | Fixed missing ASIT data type. |
| Create Record | POST /v3/records | Fixed internal server error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." encountered when creating a record with ASIT. |