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Advisor

10 years ago

API for creating new contest

Hi,

Is there any REST API for creating new contest?

If yes, please provide the REST API here.

I need to select the media type as well while creating the contest via the REST API post call.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Madhu

kandulmadhu
10 years ago
Hey,
I got the REST API for this.

You could use the following post call for creating a contest:
"http://<community>/restapi/vc/nodes/type/key/contest/add" and the following are the mandatory parameters for this call
contest.id
contest.title

Though I still need to get the parameters for setting the media type for this contest.

Thanks,
Madhu

VarunGrazitti
Boss
10 years ago
kandulmadhu - Check this thread. Contests are a "style" of board: "forum", "blog", "idea", "contest", "qanda", "review", etc. are all board "Conversation Styles" (we used to call this "Interaction Styles" or "Discussion Styles").

As you can create the contest inside that using API in this link.
- kandulmadhu
  Advisor
  10 years ago
  Hi VarunGrazitti,
  Thanks for replying.
  
  As we know Contest is a type of board and we can create board via "/boards/add" API but I need to set its interaction style as "contest".
  When we create contest via community structure in the admin tab, a board is created with interaction style as contest.
  Can we achieve this via REST API call, because I tried via "/boards/add" but I need some parameter that I could pass to set the interaction_style of the board.
  
  Regards,
  Madhu
  - VarunGrazitti
    Boss
    10 years ago
    You could may be try passing this as a parameter:
    
    message.discussionStyle=contest
    
    or
    
    board.discussionStyle = contest
    
    Just a hit and try case.