Get Answers

The GetAnswers web service allows you to pass in one or more answer files or answer collections. These can originate either as fully resolved XML answer collections, or encoded answer collections as POSTed from a browser interview. As many answer files as you provide are successively overlaid to combine them into a single, unencoded answer collection, which is returned.

.NET Client Library

See SvcClient.GetAnswers for more information.

SOAP: GetAnswers

REST: (not supported)

If your object is to turn an encoded answer collection (as submitted from a HotDocs browser interview) into a decoded answer collection, use the assemble method and request an answer file as the output format.

If your object is to combine several answer collections (encoded or not) into a single answer collection, the REST API does not currently support this. It can be accomplished by direct manipulation of answer XML, but a supported Client Library is recommended to avoid problems.

HMAC Calculation

For calls to Get Answers, the HMAC is calculated from the following list of parameters:

1. date (formatted as "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ")
2. subscriberID
3. BillingRef