Standard Entities

This section lists the Structured Objects available for use in messages.

Standard Entities

Article

Field	Required	Format	Description
title	Yes	String	The headline of the article
subTitle	No	String	The subtitle of the article
blurb	No	String	A summary of the article to display
date	No	Unix Epoch Timestamp	Date of publication
publisher	No	String	Name of the publisher
author	No	String	Name of the author
thumbnail	No	URL (could be a data url)	Image to be displayed - 106x106px
id	Must provide either id or href, or both.	String	An identifier used by the application to deeplink to the article
href	Must provide either id or href, or both.	URL	URL to the article (opened in a new browser window)

Financial Objects

org.symphonyoss.fin.security

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to org.symphonyoss.fin.security.
id	Yes	Array of Objects	An array of one or more of the following objects: org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.ticker org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.isin org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.cusip org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.openfigi More information about these objects is provided below.

org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.ticker

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.ticker.
value	Yes	String	The name/ID of a ticker.

org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.isin

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.isin.
value	Yes	String	The entity's ID.

org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.cusip

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.cusip.
value	Yes	String	The entity's ID.

org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.openfigi

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to org.symphonyoss.fin.security.id.openfigi.
value	Yes	String	The entity's ID.

FDC3 Action buttons

FDC3 action buttons allow chat bots to embed buttons in messages which, on click, will raise an intent.

Action buttons are only displayed to users who have a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) set up, such as Finsemble, Glue42 or OpenFin.

Learn more about Desktop Interop and intents here.

MessageML (message property)

<messageML> This is a FDC3 action button: 
    <br/>
    <span class="entity" data-entity-id="0">View Chart 
        <span class="tempo-text-color--red" style="font-size: 10px">
            <i>(Action button: Desktop Integration Platform is not available.) </i>
        </span>
    </span>
</messageML>

Note: Please see above the default text that would be displayed to users who don't have a desktop integration platform set up.

EntityJSON part (data property)

{
"0":
    {
    "actionData":
        {
        "context":
            {
            "id":
                {
                "ticker": "TSLA"
                },
            "name": "Tesla, inc.",
            "type": "fdc3.instrument"
            },
        "intent": "ViewChart"
        },
    "label": "View a chart",
    "type": "fdc3.entity.action",
    "version": "1.2"
    }
}

Display in Symphony:

Users with a DIP

On click, Symphony will raise the embedded intent.

Users without a DIP

Image

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of entity. Must be set to com.symphony.media.image.
version	Yes	String	The version.
format	Yes	String	The data format. Must be set to image.
url	Yes	String	The URL of the image.

Taxonomy (mention)

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to com.symphony.user.mention.
version	Yes	String	The object's version.
id	Yes	Array of objects	An array of one or more of the following objects: • com.symphony.user.userId More information about these objects is provided below.

com.symphony.user.userId

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to com.symphony.user.userId.
value	Yes	String	The ID of a user.

Video

Field	Required	Format	Description
type	Yes	String	The type of object. Must be set to com.symphony.media.video.
version	Yes	String	The version.
format	Yes	String	The video's format. Must be set to youtube or vimeo.
url	Yes	String	The URL of the video.
id	Yes	String	The unique ID of the video (can be extracted from the video URL).

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