Managing Lists

Modified on Mon, 2 Sep at 2:43 PM


Managing Lists

The Tall Bob platform provides several ways customers can manage their contacts in Lists:

  • Through the Contacts page - Individually add the contact to groups or upload a CSV file 
  • Through the Lists page
  • Through the API

This guide will explore the different ways in which a customer can add their contacts into lists such as:


Managing Through the Platform

Within the platform, you can manage lists by adding an individual or a bunch of contacts to a lists or uploading a set of contacts to the platform within lists. Click on the links below to check out the relevant support articles


Through the API

Adding a Contact to a List

  1. To Create a contact and add a list to it, Tall Bob APIs provide an endpoint called Create New Contact. This endpoint will allow you to create a contact and add it to a list by using the ‘group_id’ parameter in the request. 
  2. Another way of adding a contact to a list can be done using the Add Contact endpoint.


Creating a new List

To create a new list, Tall Bob APIs provide an endpoint called Create New Group


Viewing the List and List Members

  1. To retrieve a list of groups, Tall Bob APIs provide an endpoint called List Contact Groups. You can filter the contact list by providing the name of the list (Optional Parameter).
  2. To retrieve the list of contacts in a particular list, Tall Bob APIs provide an endpoint called List Group Members.


Updating List Details

To edit the list name, use the Tall Bob APIs endpoint Update Contact Group.


Removing List and List Members

  1. To remove a contact from the list Tall Bob APIs provide an endpoint called Remove Contact
  2. To delete a list, Tall Bob APIs provide an endpoint called Delete Contact Group



Helpful Stuff

  • Looking for definitions that revolve around Mobile, SMS and Telco Industries, then click here
  • Looking for those pesky API docs that don't have all of the waffle like above and just get straight down to business, then go here
  • Other helpful developer documents can be found here

If you ever need further assistance or someone to point you in the right direction you can email the team at [email protected]

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