Allocate expenses (created via travel allowances by api) by api

[oskarb]

Hi everybody,

In the allocations v4 api definition it is stated:

The Allocations API can be used to read the allocations that belong to a specific expense on an expense report and modify an allocation on an existing expense in an expense report. This API can be used to change custom field attributes, etc.

My use-case is this: We have a seperate application to manage and plan traveling. From this app i create the travel allowances automatically in concur. Ideally i also want to allocate the resulting expenses to a project. I have all necessary information but i cannot find a possibility to create a new allocation. I found out that there are automatically created system-allocations but those cannot be patched (interface.concur.client.ConcurError: System allocation cannot be modified).

Is there any other way to create an allocation programatically?

Best and Thanks,
Oskar

[KevinD · Accepted solution]

@oskarb I double-checked with a colleague and creation of allocations using our APIs has not been developed. 

[oskarb]

Thanks for the quick response @KevinD 

Is there a plan to implement it or is the development not planned?

Are there workaround to allow to do this?

For example: Is it possible to generate an automatic allocation only on the expenses generated from travel allowances that i can edit via API afterwards. Ideally these would be hidden such that the users can manually use the system as they are used to do currently or the allocation is incomplete such that the report cannot be submitted without editing of the allocation via api or manual editing (we have multiple requests for one report therefore it is not trivial to get the allocation "target", we would need to find a request in the correct time-span to make the correct allocation directly)