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akashm
Mentor
3 years ago

Is there way to create new status for ideas via API?

Hi,   I am trying to update the idea statuses of the Idea Boards for my community via API REST Call.   There are about 11 idea exchange boards, and 7 custom idea statuses per board, so it is pret...
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AdamN
Khoros Oracle
3 years ago

akashm It is expecting the id or the key of the status, as defined when you created the status. Then you pass it in the request like:

.../message_statuses/available/add?message.status=key/accepted

or

.../message_statuses/available/add?message.status=id/654

(Note, you'll want to URL-encode your query param values. I'm leaving them unencoded here for readability)

If you need to create new statuses, you can use:

https://devdocportal.khoros.com/t5/Community-API-v1-Reference/bd-p/restv1docs?section=commv1&leaf-id=Community.message_statuses#Community.message_statuses.add

I hope this helps!

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akashm
Mentor
3 years ago

Thanks for your help AdamN , can you tell me where I am going wrong?

 

here's my example request based on your suggestion

https:<My URL>/vc/boards/id/<Board ID>/message_statuses/add?message_status.key=pending_closure&message_status.name=Pending Closure&message_status.description=<Some random description>&message_status.type=idea

Note that I am following https://devdocportal.khoros.com/t5/Community-API-v1-Reference/bd-p/restv1docs?section=commv1&leaf-id=Board.message_statuses#Board.message_statuses.available.add and I am adding the Board ID to the param as well

 

But I am getting the following error:

<response status="error">
    <error code="501">
        <message>
      Unknown path element at node &apos;board_message_status_context&apos;.
    </message>
    </error>
</response>

 I don't even know what a board_message_status_context is 😁