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Metadata

GET

/metadata

The metadata API returns information that can be used to invoke the suite of portfolio reporting APIs. It provides available dates, positions and other data points for portfolios that can be used as query parameters for the suite of portfolio reporting APIs.

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...

Metadata

GET

/metadata

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...

Test: https://test.api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

TLS*: https://mtls.api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

*The TLS endpoint is only used if Server Based Application was selected during the App Registration process.

Step 2

Pass the oAuth Token and the App key to invoke this endpoint for a particular application.

Metadata

GET

/metadata

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...

SAMPLE REQUEST

 curl -X GET \
  'https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata' \
  -H 'AppKey: gsedgaerhDSHGRSHv' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer ADsgdnnkjnfdIKJN' \

REQUEST HEADER

Authorization: Bearer ADsgdnnkjnfdIKJN
AppKey: gsedgaerhDSHGRSH

RESPONSE HEADER

Content-Type: application/json 
Status: 200 OK 
requesttrackingid: 67e1ff68-164f-03ad-0f2d-5cbbfda56ec9

SAMPLE RESPONSE

{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "123412ABCD",
            "externalId": "12ABCD",
            "type": "Portfolio",
            "name": "12 AB SEI Fund",
            "strategyName": "Small Cap Portfolio",
            "mnemonic": null,
            "startDate": "2009-11-13T00:00:00",
            "endDate": null,
            "performanceStartDate": "2009-11-14T00:00:00",
            "status": null,
            "baseCurrencyIsoCode": "USD",
            "domicileCurrencyIsoCode": "US  ",
            "benchmarkIndex1": "AB_CDE1111_F",
            "benchmarkIndex2": null,
            "benchmarkIndex3": null,
            "benchmarkIndex4": null,
            "productUdf": {
                "text1": "2",
                "text2": "SEI Investments",
                "text3": "TRUE",
                "text4": "TRUE",
                "text5": "TRUE",
                "text6": "TRUE",
                "text7": "USD",
                "text8": null,
                "text9": null,
                "text10": null,
                "text11": "ABCD Small Cap Equity",
                "text12": "Separate Account",
                "text13": null,
                "text14": null,
                "text15": null,
                "text16": null
            }
        }
    ],
    "paging": {
        "totalCount": 1,
        "limit": 1,
        "first": "https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata?externalId=12ABCD&before=MQ==&after=MQ==",
        "last": "https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata?externalId=12ABCD&before=MQ==&after=MQ==",
        "previous": null,
        "next": null,
        "self": "https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata?externalId=12ABCD&limit=1"
    }
}

MODEL

Operations

Name	Description	Data Type (L)
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
type	Describes the type of transaction. A full list of transaction types can be obtained through the Lists API.	string
mnemonic	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the mnemonic is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
endDate	The latest date within a range in ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD.	string
startDate	The earliest date within a range in ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD.	boolean
status	The standing, or sometimes state, of something at a particular point in time.	string
name	Name of the report. The user is expected to use the key value pairs returned by this API to construct the payload for POST report generation request.	string
strategyName	Investment strategy based on which the security was aquired by a portfolio. Typically relevant for fund of funds portfolios.	string
baseCurrencyIsoCode	Account base currency	string
performanceStartDate	The inception date of a product when performance first began. In some cases, this may be different than the open date of the product.	string
benchmarkIndex1	The name of the product's primary benchmark	string
benchmarkIndex2	The name of the product's second benchmark	string
benchmarkIndex3	The name of the product's third benchmark	string
benchmarkIndex4	The name of the product's fourth benchmark	string
domicileCountryIsoCode	Identifies the domicile country in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code format.	string
text1	Contact SEI to understand if this field is applicable to you and if yes what value it is returning. The object consists of user defined fields configured in SEI Accounting System as per discussions during client data conversion phase	string

Metadata

GET

/metadata

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...

Metadata

GET

/metadata

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...

Test: https://test.api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

TLS*: https://mtls.api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

*The TLS endpoint is only used if Server Based Application was selected during the App Registration process.

STEP 1

oAuthToken

POST

Step 2

Pass the oAuth Token and the App key to invoke this endpoint for a particular application.

Metadata

GET

/metadata

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...

SAMPLE REQUEST

 curl -X GET \
  'https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata' \
  -H 'AppKey: gsedgaerhDSHGRSHv' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer ADsgdnnkjnfdIKJN' \

REQUEST HEADER

Authorization: Bearer ADsgdnnkjnfdIKJN
AppKey: gsedgaerhDSHGRSH

RESPONSE HEADER

Content-Type: application/json 
Status: 200 OK 
requesttrackingid: 67e1ff68-164f-03ad-0f2d-5cbbfda56ec9

SAMPLE RESPONSE

{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "123412ABCD",
            "externalId": "12ABCD",
            "type": "Portfolio",
            "name": "12 AB SEI Fund",
            "strategyName": "Small Cap Portfolio",
            "mnemonic": null,
            "startDate": "2009-11-13T00:00:00",
            "endDate": null,
            "performanceStartDate": "2009-11-14T00:00:00",
            "status": null,
            "baseCurrencyIsoCode": "USD",
            "domicileCurrencyIsoCode": "US  ",
            "benchmarkIndex1": "AB_CDE1111_F",
            "benchmarkIndex2": null,
            "benchmarkIndex3": null,
            "benchmarkIndex4": null,
            "productUdf": {
                "text1": "2",
                "text2": "SEI Investments",
                "text3": "TRUE",
                "text4": "TRUE",
                "text5": "TRUE",
                "text6": "TRUE",
                "text7": "USD",
                "text8": null,
                "text9": null,
                "text10": null,
                "text11": "ABCD Small Cap Equity",
                "text12": "Separate Account",
                "text13": null,
                "text14": null,
                "text15": null,
                "text16": null
            }
        }
    ],
    "paging": {
        "totalCount": 1,
        "limit": 1,
        "first": "https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata?externalId=12ABCD&before=MQ==&after=MQ==",
        "last": "https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata?externalId=12ABCD&before=MQ==&after=MQ==",
        "previous": null,
        "next": null,
        "self": "https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata?externalId=12ABCD&limit=1"
    }
}

MODEL

Operations

Name	Description	Data Type (L)
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
type	Describes the type of transaction. A full list of transaction types can be obtained through the Lists API.	string
mnemonic	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the mnemonic is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
endDate	The latest date within a range in ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD.	string
startDate	The earliest date within a range in ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD.	boolean
status	The standing, or sometimes state, of something at a particular point in time.	string
name	Name of the report. The user is expected to use the key value pairs returned by this API to construct the payload for POST report generation request.	string
strategyName	Investment strategy based on which the security was aquired by a portfolio. Typically relevant for fund of funds portfolios.	string
baseCurrencyIsoCode	Account base currency	string
performanceStartDate	The inception date of a product when performance first began. In some cases, this may be different than the open date of the product.	string
benchmarkIndex1	The name of the product's primary benchmark	string
benchmarkIndex2	The name of the product's second benchmark	string
benchmarkIndex3	The name of the product's third benchmark	string
benchmarkIndex4	The name of the product's fourth benchmark	string
domicileCountryIsoCode	Identifies the domicile country in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code format.	string
text1	Contact SEI to understand if this field is applicable to you and if yes what value it is returning. The object consists of user defined fields configured in SEI Accounting System as per discussions during client data conversion phase	string

Metadata

GET

/metadata

Prod:

https://api.seic.com/v1/portfolio/metadata

Query Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type
externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.	string
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.	string
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.	integer

Header Parameters

Name	Description	Data Type	Required
Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"	string
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.	string

HTTP Responses

Code

Description
200

OK- The request has succeeded and the response has been returned.
400

Bad request - The server cannot or will not process the request due to an inaccurate request submitted by the client application. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections indicated in the error response. For more Info on SEI Error Standards please refer to the API Standards FAQ under Support.
401

Unauthorized - Invalid authentication details have been provided. Also useful to trigger an authorization pop up if the API is used from a browser.
403

Forbidden-The SEI Server understood the request but refuses to fulfill it.
404

Not Found- The requested resource or the underlying resource does not exist. Please resubmit the request after making the required corrections
500

Internal Server Error - The server was unable to fulfill the request due to an unknown condition. Please contact SEI for support. For More Info please refer to the "Response & Errors" FAQ under support.

TEST ENDPOINT

externalId	Unique business identifier that represents a contact, investor, product, transaction or alternate entity recognized by SEI and a third party system or application. Many times the externalId is used to synchronize SEI sourced data with another data source for the same record.
id	The unique identifier for an entity such as a calendar, event, document, account, position or tax lot.
limit	Number of records per page. Many responses have a maximum of 50 records per page.

Authorization	access_token value obtained from the Token endpoint.This is passed as "Bearer access_token"
AppKey	This is the Consumer Key provided during the App Registration process and is used to identify the user's application.

Request Body

Value
Schema

HTTP Basic

Set...

OAuth 2.0

Set...

API Key

Set...

Working...