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lorna's avatar
lorna
Maven
11 years ago

Order featured threads (blog)

I am trying to understand the order of featured blog threads. I am using a category with 3 boards and would like to order the featured threads by featured date.     On the REST API pages it has: ...
samudhraa's avatar
samudhraa
Expert

Hi lorna ,

 

I have used the same REST call in my community and found it working correctly.  One thing you could try is narrowing it down by mentioning the style (like forum, blog , ideas etc) ?

     threads/style/[style] /featured

 

Can you also check if those random threads are appearing from nested boards ?

A sample of the response might help .

 

Thanks,

Sam

 

 

 

lorna's avatar
lorna
Maven
11 years ago

Hi samudhraa 

 

Thanks for the response :smileyhappy:

 

They are not nested - there are 3 boards within the category:

 

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Using http://communityname.com/communityname/restapi/vc/categories/id/itt_plc/threads/style/blog/featured?restapi.response_style=view
 I get the response below (the one highlighted is the last one featured):

 

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I thought maybe they were in board order first but the first and third are the same board and the second is a different one:

 

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  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    11 years ago

    Hi lorna 

     

    have you raised this with our support department? They should be able to clarify further around this.

     

    Many Thanks,