Quick Start

Standard Procedure

Generally, the Bimplus REST API calls consist of five steps for accessing the resources.

1. Developer Registration

Generally our portal  Allplan Bimplus is the first place of contact of the user for using the Bimplus platform.

Please do the developer registration here .

You can find step by step manual here.

When you have any problems with the registration contact us here.

2.  Authentication token request

The authentication request for accessing the BimPlus resource should be sent in the JSON format using the OIDC Authorization service. The registered user name and password in the Bimplus portal should be provided here.

For example, you can enable the OAuth 2.0 authentication process directly in your REST-client and it will automatically create and refresh tokens when needed.

It is recommended to use browser UI to login and logout with OIDC server. For this process, you can specify discovery URL and retrieve JSON with latest settings there.

Received token should be directly used to access BimPlus resources after receiving it from OIDC. Refreshing and revoking of the tokens are also managed by OIDC, not BimPlus. Old authentication service in BimPlus remains only for backward compatibility and will be removed in 2026.

Please, use the client_id from the request and regenerate the token (using the same API call with client_id as the additional parameter) for having the possibility to login multiple times at the same time. For more information, see here

Content-Type: application/json

{
 "user_id" : "test@bimplus.net",
 "password" : "test",
 "application_id" : "6C12345D9B0C4F3C23ABB5721D098F7B"
}

Status: 200 OK

{
"access_token": "9c1874a62c974dcfa75e0132c423a088",
"expires_in": 2591999,
"client_id" : "1FD44C0E-DCB4-11E2-A114-67286288709B"
"token_type": "BimPlus"
}

3. Receive the authentication token 

Obsolete. The token is received in the request.

Content-Type: application/json

{
 "user_id" : "test@bimplus.net",
 "password" : "test",
 "application_id" : "6C12345D9B0C4F3C23ABB5721D098F7B"
}

Status: 200 OK

{
"access_token": "9c1874a62c974dcfa75e0132c423a088",
"expires_in": 2591999,
"client_id" : "1FD44C0E-DCB4-11E2-A114-67286288709B"
"token_type": "BimPlus"
}

4. Get the team information

The team has to be specified and setup through the  Bimplus portal as so-called slugs  to present a clean URL . Slugs are lowercase unique identifiers based on English characters and numbers. The team slug will be used to know which tenant database to work on.

Authorization: BimPlus 9c1874a62c974dcfa75e0132c423a088
Content-Type: application/json

Status: 200 OK

[2]
0:  {
id: "82884f54-96bf-4e9c-a2fb-44db8379378d"
slug: "nemetschek"
name: "Nemetschek"
owner: "132a78a5-b523-4bf2-8382-7098fac3f803"
totalStorage: 0
storageStats: null
status: "Active"
teamWorksConnection: "RGF0YSBTb3VyY2U9YmltcGx1cy5tYW50cm8ubmV0OyBJbml0aWFsIENhdGFsb2c9QmltUGx1cy5UZW5hbnQuRGV2OyBVc2VyIElkPWRiYmltbWFudHJvdGVzdDsgUGFzc3dvcmQ9MWprdGNudG9DcU9qeGtIMU9QOXg7IENvbm5lY3QgdGltZW91dD0xMA=="
dataStorageStatus: "Online"
}-
1:  {
id: "7eab1453-a4e7-4d05-983e-031544540e6f"
slug: "bimplus-demo"
name: "BimPlus Demo"
owner: "5592c628-588e-f5c0-b08b-088d43de9209"
totalStorage: 53687091200
storageStats: null
status: "Active"
teamWorksConnection: "RGF0YSBTb3VyY2U9YmltcGx1cy5tYW50cm8ubmV0O0luaXRpYWwgQ2F0YWxvZz1CaW1QbHVzLlRlbmFudC5iaW1wbHVzLWRlbW87VXNlciBJRD1iaW1wbHVzLWRlbW87UGFzc3dvcmQ9YWI3ZDRmNDc5ZGM4YjI1Yjg2MDc0Y2ZmZTNiNDBjZmY2OWQwNzQ1YjtDb25uZWN0IFRpbWVvdXQ9MTA="
dataStorageStatus: "Online"
}

5. Request the desired resource

Using the authentication token and the team slug, the necessary resource can be accessed and the desired action can be performed on that resource using the Bimplus REST API .

For example, we can use this token to get the project list.

Authorization: BimPlus 9c1874a62c974dcfa75e0132c423a088
Content-Type: application/json

Status: 200 OK

[3]
0:  {
id: "c8c8e6f2-4495-484c-929d-0049f1f9d4ff"
name: "!!!!!_VORTEILSHAUS V40 SD45 Traufeingang"
}-
1:  {
id: "2d703abe-b4f9-407c-af53-a39c5b7ba872"
name: "__5 999 Parklife Salzburg Lehen"
}-
2:  {
id: "c480cc54-aec4-4bef-8d35-93bb090e1aba"
name: "0811-Wohnhaus Kraus - Carport1"
}

Tools 

Plugins for doing REST based calls (REST Client) 

Chrome --> Advanced REST client, Postman - REST client, Simple REST client

Firefox --> RESTClient

For validating or formatting JSON --> http://jsonlint.com/