Agendas on the website after clerk approval
Upcoming meetings with a published agenda wait for the clerk to approve, then become pages on the Sentra CMS website.
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CivicCA integration
for clerks and meeting agendas
CivicCA is a meeting and agenda management system for city clerks, councils, boards and commissions. Clerks build agendas, publish meetings, record votes and publish minutes in it. CivicCA is made by the same company family as SentraBridge.
Pre-built connector
CivicCA
- Tier
- Pre-built connector
- Category
- Our products
- Sign-in
- API key in a header
- Paging
- single response
- Webhooks
- 8 events, signatures verified
- Sandbox
- Yes: practice with made-up data
§ Overview
What connecting CivicCA does.
The CivicCA connector is pre-built. It reads and updates meetings, creates agendas and agenda items, and starts flows from signed CivicCA webhooks such as agenda.published and minutes.published. Meeting content moves through in memory and is not kept by SentraBridge.
- Meetings: Read, create and update meetings: board, date, time, location, type and agenda status.
- Agendas: Create an agenda for a meeting.
- Agenda items: Create and update items: title, type, file number, description and recommended action.
- Webhook events: Meetings, agendas, votes, minutes and policy events, signed with HMAC.
What SentraBridge can do with CivicCA
| resource | read | write | changes only | fields |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings | list, read one | create, update | yes | ID, Board or council, Date, Time, Location, Type… |
| Agendas (by ID) | read one | create | — | ID, Meeting, Status |
| Agenda items | — | create, update | — | Agenda, Title, Type, File number, Description, Recommended action |
Webhook events: agenda.published meeting.created meeting.cancelled vote.recorded minutes.published policy.created policy.status_changed policy.adopted
§ Use cases
What cities connect CivicCA for.
Agendas and minutes filed in Laserfiche
Each newly published agenda and set of minutes is filed in the board's Laserfiche folder with meeting metadata.
Upcoming meetings on the website
Every night, upcoming meetings with a published agenda are added as pages on the city's Sentra CMS site.
Staff report items from other systems
Agenda items for contracts or permits are created from records in Munis or Accela, with the file number and recommended action.
Notify departments when votes are recorded
The vote.recorded webhook posts the outcome to a department's Teams channel.
§ Examples
Flows that use CivicCA.
CivicCA → Sentra CMS
Publish upcoming CivicCA meetings to the website
Every night at 1 am, takes upcoming meetings with a published agenda from CivicCA and adds them as pages on the Sentra CMS website.
CivicCA → Laserfiche CloudFile CivicCA agendas and minutes in Laserfiche
Every hour, files each newly published CivicCA agenda and set of minutes in the city's Laserfiche repository, in the folder for that board, with…
§ How it works
How to connect CivicCA
- 01Get accessCreate a CivicCA API key (civicca_...) for SentraBridge in CivicCA's settings.
- 02Add the connectionAdd the write scope if flows create meetings, agendas or agenda items.
- 03Preview real recordsFor webhooks, copy the flow's address and signing secret into CivicCA.
- 04Turn it onTry flows first on the CivicCA sandbox with made-up meetings.
§ Often connected with
CivicCA and the rest of city hall.
Systems cities commonly connect with CivicCA, each with its own connector page.
§ FAQ
CivicCA integration questions
Does CivicCA support webhooks?
Yes. CivicCA sends signed events for agenda.published, meeting.created, meeting.cancelled, vote.recorded, minutes.published and policy changes. SentraBridge verifies the signature before reading anything.
How do I put CivicCA agendas on our website?
Use the agendas-to-website flow: it finds upcoming meetings with a published agenda, asks the clerk to approve, then creates pages in Sentra CMS.
Can CivicCA file minutes in Laserfiche?
Yes. A flow files each new agenda and set of minutes in the right board's Laserfiche folder with meeting metadata.
§ Next
Related connectors
Connect CivicCA to the rest.
We'll set up a workspace with your systems in a sandbox and build your first flow with you.