Sourcepoint has extended the functionality of the IAB's TCF API to offer your organization additional commands that can be used with the __tcfapi() function call. This provides a level of consistency and feature overlap between IAB TCF and custom function integrations.
Certain use cases may require your organization to change an end-user's consent profile outside the Sourcepoint first layer and privacy manager messages.
Use Case: Apply vendor-specific consent experiences to handle social media plugins. Or apply consent because an end-user accepts the website's T&Cs or a contract provided by a publisher or advertiser.
The postCustomConsent command can be used to edit a user's consent profile by changing the opt-in status for consented vendors, categories (purposes) and legitimate interest categories (purposes).
postCustomConsent command
The command returns a JSON object that contains information on the purposes attributed to each vendor and their legal basis. Here is the format of the postCustomConsent command:
Parameter description
| Parameter | Description |
| vendor ids | List of vendor IDs your organization wish to update. Comma delimited. |
| purpose ids | List of purpose IDs your organization wish to update to 'consent only'. Comma delimited. |
| legitimate interest purpose ids | List of purpose IDs your organization wish to update to 'legitimate interest'. Comma delimited. |
__tcfapi('postCustomConsent',2,callback function,[vendors ids],[purpose ids],[legitimate interest purposes ids])Note: You will need to consent to both vendors and purposes. Consenting to a vendor only does not include the purposes.
Code example
function callback_fn(data, success) {
// your custom callback code can be included here
console.log(data, success)
}
// call the postCustomConsent command to update consented vendors
__tcfapi('postCustomConsent', 2, callback_fn, ["5f3bc0d7b8e05c606f3dfc27", "5f477cc6c442796aa67839d9", "5fd78083fc186126cb9fabad", "5f3a3e66ee0a81887437291c", "5fda5252b4f7ae27b97a1dfe", "5e7ced57b8e05c47e418b73c"], [], [] );
// call the postCustomConsent command to update consented purposes
__tcfapi('postCustomConsent', 2, callback_fn, [], ["6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ecf", "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3f0e"], [] );
// call the postCustomConsent command to update legitimate interest purposes
__tcfapi('postCustomConsent', 2, callback_fn, [], [], ["6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ecf", "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3f0e"] );
postCustomConsent response
The response is a JSON object that contains the updated consent data and this is divided into six parts - categories, customVendorResponse, grants, legIntCategories, legIntVendors and vendors. The format of these six sections will be described next.
Categories
The categories section lists the purpose ids mapped to consented vendors. The output format is as follows:
categories: ["purpose id 1", "purpose id 2", ...] categories: Array(10)
0: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ecf"
1: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ed6"
2: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ede"
3: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ee6"
4: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3eed"
5: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3ef5"
6: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3efd"
7: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3f05"
8: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3f0e"
9: "6011ea75c5d9c787531b3f18"