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wmertens
Expert
12 years ago

How to get a hierarchical view of all boards and categories?

Hi all,

 

I'm new here and I couldn't find an answer by searching so here goes:

 

For metrics retrieval I want to create a tree object that has all the boards, tkbs etc. Basically, what you would see if you expand all the all the subtrees in a community browser like at dev nation.

 

Using the REST API it looks like I will have to walk the entire tree, starting from the community info at restapi/vc/ and then for each category getting details on the category so I get the subcategories.

 

Is this correct? Seems sub-optimal to me.

 

There is also the restapi/vc/categories/nested call but that just gives you a flat list and the category details do not include their ancestor category id.

 

Any chance of changing the API so any call to nested includes the ancestor ids as well?