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peterlu
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11 years ago
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get a list of threads/topics from community / board, sort by / order by last reply message

I found a similar post here http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Discussion/RESTAPI-sort-by-last-edit-time/m-p/139108#M5415   There have been requirements for this from multiple customers. I...
  • DougS's avatar
    DougS
    11 years ago

    Hi Peter,

     

    You should be able to make the /boards/id/<board id>/threads call and pass the message_viewer.topic_sort_order parameter set to last_post_date.

     

    -Doug

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    peterlu
    11 years ago

    Thanks, DougS, the search api with sort_by=-latestPostDate works for community/category level.

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peterlu
Champion
11 years ago

Hi Doug,

 

Thanks for the solution.

 

My client is asking that can we do the same sorting thing for category or community level topics?

 

Peter

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    DougS
    Khoros Oracle
    11 years ago

    That threads call can only be made at the board level and there is no API call to do that at the category or community level that I'm aware of, unfortunately.

     

    Try adding sort_by=-latestPostDate to a search API call and see if that does the trick or not.

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      peterlu
      Champion
      11 years ago

      Thanks, DougS, the search api with sort_by=-latestPostDate works for community/category level.