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xorrkaz's avatar
xorrkaz
Genius
12 years ago

How to create an Idea Exchange using REST?

We need to programmatically spin up idea exchanges.  While I can create a new board and set its interaction.style setting to "idea" this doesn't work as expected.  The object is still a forum board, ...
  • YuriK's avatar
    YuriK
    12 years ago

    Hey xorrkaz,

     

    Instead of creating a new board and changing the interaction style you should be able to create an idea directly.

     

    The call should look something like this:

     

    /restapi/vc/categories/id/support/nodes/type/key/idea/add?idea.id=testidea&idea.title=IDEAS%20TITLE

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Yuri

YuriK's avatar
YuriK
Khoros Expert

Hey xorrkaz,

 

Instead of creating a new board and changing the interaction style you should be able to create an idea directly.

 

The call should look something like this:

 

/restapi/vc/categories/id/support/nodes/type/key/idea/add?idea.id=testidea&idea.title=IDEAS%20TITLE

 

Hope this helps,

 

Yuri

xorrkaz's avatar
xorrkaz
Genius
12 years ago

Wow.  Thanks.  No where is this documented.  Are you sure that's the REST node?  Off of the GenericNode class I don't see a "type" branch.

  • xorrkaz's avatar
    xorrkaz
    Genius
    12 years ago

    Just tested this.  It does not work:

     

    Array
    (
        [response] => Array
            (
                [status] => error
                [error] => Array
                    (
                        [code] => 501
                        [message] =>
          Unknown path element at node 'category.nodes.type'.
        
                    )

            )

    )
    ERROR: Error response from server: 1

    • YuriK's avatar
      YuriK
      Khoros Expert
      12 years ago

      What is the url and post parameters you are using?

      • xorrkaz's avatar
        xorrkaz
        Genius
        12 years ago

        /restapi/vc/categories/id/CAT/nodes/type/idea/add

         

        idea.id=ID&idea.title=TITLE

  • YuriK's avatar
    YuriK
    Khoros Expert
    12 years ago

    You can find this in the documentation in either Category.html or Community.html, it looks something like this:

     

    nodes/type/key/node_type_key/add

    You can also go to AllMethods.html which will have documentation for all the methods.

     

    I'm using docs downloaded from here: API Javadocs

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Yuri

    • xorrkaz's avatar
      xorrkaz
      Genius
      12 years ago

      I'm looking at the REST API 12.10 docs, and I do see it.  Is this new to 12.10?  Our community is still running an earlier version (12.09 or 12.08).