Code Issue with Sub - Account Terms

[marshallj]

I'm having a little trouble running some 3rd party grade pull code on our system and getting this error:

C:/Ruby23-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/bundler/gems/canvas-api-2e114163f7af/lib/canvas-api.rb:119:in `retrieve_response': Terms only belong to root_accounts. (Canvas::ApiError)

From what I can tell (I'm not terribly experienced with this sort of thing), it seems to be having an issue with a Sub - Account that we created for our Athletics department. We have all of those courses assigned to their own year - round term. My workaround was to remove the Sub - Account entirely, but that is not optimal, as we would like to use Sub - Accounts in Canvas.

Here is the relevant piece of code:

def get_current_enrollment_term_ids(account_id)
enrollment_terms = @canvas.get("/api/v1/accounts/#{@account_id}/terms")['enrollment_terms']
sorted_terms = enrollment_terms.select{|term| term['start_at'] != nil && (Date.today - Date.parse(term['start_at'])) > 30 }.sort_by!{|term| Date.parse(term['start_at'])}
current_term_id = sorted_terms.select{|term| !term['name'].include?('Full Year')}.last['id']
current_year_term_id = sorted_terms.select{|term| term['name'].include?('Full Year')}.last['id']
[current_year_term_id, current_term_id]
end

I'm thinking perhaps we can't assign Terms to Sub - Accounts? Does anyone do anything like this? Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

[kona]

marshallj, given the highly technical nature of your question, I’ve shared it with the https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/canvas-developers?sr=search&searchId=051e219f-740d-4174-8522-...‌ group in the Community. They are the ones who deal more with this side of things and can hopefully help!

[RobDitto]

marshallj, you're right, terms can only be managed as part of root accounts. See the Enrollment Terms API documentation:

• Enrollment Terms - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation

(The sentence about the error code referring subaccounts to a root account ID doesn't seem to happen, however.)

We have tons of sub-accounts, and it's no problem to have a term which happens only to be used in courses within that sub-account. Over time, at my institution, we decided to converge on a smaller common set of terms, including a year-long term for each academic year.

[marshallj]

Thanks, Rob.

My workaround was to delete the entire Athletics Sub - Account. It's still not clear to me why having a sub - account with the terms that we do would break this particular section of code. Essentially, we're making our athletics teams as if they were classes in our SIS, without much of a difference and syncing them. The question isn't so much about "terms" I think but about the existence of this particular sub account hanging the code.

Is there any code that I could get a hand with that would ignore all sub - accounts and only pull data from the root account?

 @kona ‌ - my apologies - I thought I was in the Canvas Developers section, and would still appreciate a bit of help if someone is still liked / tagged on this issue.