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Gursimrat's avatar
Gursimrat
Leader
11 years ago

Parent post issue

I am customizing the recent posts widget where in I have to show the latest reply with the parent post, but I am getting an issue with getting the parent post of the main topic (which ofcourse would ...
Henrik's avatar
Henrik
Advisor

Hi Gursimrat ,

 

I have used "root" instead of "parent" in my case.

Something like:

 

<#assign reply_root = rest("/messages/id/${reply_id}/root").message />
<#if reply_root.id != reply_id>
The message is a reply to the topic whose id is ${reply_root.id}
</#if>

 Cheers,

Henrik

samudhraa's avatar
samudhraa
Expert
11 years ago

Hi Gursimrat ,

 

Check out this snippet of code.

It checks if the message has parent ,if so assigns parent path to a variable.

If the message is a parent by itself , it assigns the message path to the variable.

 

<#assign response = rest("/posts/recent").messages/>
<#list response.message as message>
     <#if (message.parent.@href?size>0)>
        <#assign parentMsgId= message.parent.@href />
     <#else>
           <#assign isParent = message.parent.@null />
            <#if isParent=="true">
                 <#assign parentMsgId = message.@href />
           </#if>

       </#if>
${parentMsgId}
<br/>
</#list>

 

Hope that helps. 

Thanks,

Sam