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content_migration_completed

Definition: The event is emitted anytime a content migration request is completed.

Trigger: Triggered anytime a content migration request is completed.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "context_id": "21070000000008972",
    "context_type": "Course",
    "event_name": "content_migration_completed",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:02.024Z",
    "job_id": "1020020528469291",
    "job_tag": "ContentMigration#import_content",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs"
  },
  "body": {
    "content_migration_id": "21070000000000072",
    "context_id": "21070000000008972",
    "context_type": "Course",
    "context_uuid": "Uc69p8GCYLMYWQJqkyzQGqg1kNMXbmnRl8qdCJge",
    "import_quizzes_next": false,
    "lti_context_id": "694d2e30346f6a94ad20cea11ce78d19bd849c9c",
    "source_course_lti_id": "38ab9de0f0bc8e8e0889432275420de08f0d8380",
    "destination_course_lti_id": "694d2e30346f6a94ad20cea11ce78d19bd849c9c",
    "migration_type": "course_copy_importer",
    "domain": "oxana.instructure.com"
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
content_migration_id The Canvas id of the content migration.
context_id The Canvas id of the context associated with the content migration.
context_type The type of context associated with the content migration.
context_uuid The uuid of the context associated with the content migration.
import_quizzes_next Indicates whether the user requested that the quizzes in the content migration be created in Quizzes.Next (true) or in native Canvas (false).
lti_context_id The lti context id of the context associated with the content migration.
source_course_lti_id The lti context id of the the source course, if applicable.
destination_course_lti_id Alias for lti_context_id.
migration_type The migration type. Examples include: academic_benchmark_importer, angel_exporter, blackboard_exporter, canvas_cartridge_importer, common_cartridge_importer, course_copy_importer, d2l_exporter, master_course_import, moodle_converter, qti_converter, webct_scraper, zip_file_importer, context_external_tool_1234.
domain The default hostname for the Canvas root account.

Note: Timestamps will be in ISO8601 format, including an offset. Be sure to take that into account when parsing, since it’s unspecified which offset timestamps will use, and the offset may even change between different timestamps within a single event.