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micha80's avatar
micha80
Expert
10 years ago

Get readonly status using RestAPI or LiQL

Hi @all,   we made a board only readonly and want to get this information using the RestAPI or LiQL.   Setup "Readonly" 1. We have done the setting in: Community Admin => Community structure => ...
OlivierS's avatar
OlivierS
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
10 years ago

micha80 the message resource has a read_only property:

 

SELECT read_only FROM messages

However, it looks like you can't use the read_only property in a WHERE clause, so this won't work:

 

SELECT * FROM messages WHERE read_only='true'
  • micha80's avatar
    micha80
    Expert
    10 years ago

    Hi OlivierS,

     

    thanks for your reply. But the question is not about messages. Its about boards.

     

    Regards,

    Michael

    • Claudius's avatar
      Claudius
      Boss
      10 years ago

      Hallo Michael,
      I would have expected the read only parameter to be exposed via the "settings" call for Boards. Unfortunately no luck there.

      But I recalled an earlier case where I wanted to enable custom tags on individual board level and via some DOM inspection of the admin settings I found the correct parameter name to poll:

       

      http://community.lithium.com/community-name/restapi/vc/boards/id/[id]/settings/name/config.read_only