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wsurguy's avatar
wsurguy
Adept
10 years ago

Permission denied when making a 'Reply' via the REST API.

Hi All,   I am receiving a 'Permission Denied' when trying to make a reply to a message via the REST API. My user is and 'Administrator' and has the 'Grant' permission 'Make REST API calls with mod...
  • Tim_h's avatar
    Tim_h
    10 years ago

    Good to hear you managed to get the post returned wsurguy.

    You won't be able to specify the author of the post unless the user making the post has the "switch to other users" permission enabled.

     

    And even then you can't switch to a user that has any permission higher than your own.

    Labels on the other hand apply to a topic only. Not an individual post, you wouldn't pass those in with a reply.

    You could need to use tags if there's metadata you want to attach to the post.

     

    Sounds like you've got the right permissions working now, but just need a few tweaks to what you're handing to the API :)

wsurguy's avatar
wsurguy
Adept

Tim,

  I was able to perform a post for the parent message using the following REST API url and passing the body of the message in the parameter message.body.  I found I cannot pass message.author or label.labels using this REST API method.

 

http://OURCOMMUNITY/restapi/vc/threads/id/6214/messages/post?restapi.session_key=VALIDSESSIONKEY


I posted a new parent which is ID 6214.  Then posted the child message.

 

Thank you for your help.

Wayne

 

Tim_h's avatar
Tim_h
Boss
10 years ago

Good to hear you managed to get the post returned wsurguy.

You won't be able to specify the author of the post unless the user making the post has the "switch to other users" permission enabled.

 

And even then you can't switch to a user that has any permission higher than your own.

Labels on the other hand apply to a topic only. Not an individual post, you wouldn't pass those in with a reply.

You could need to use tags if there's metadata you want to attach to the post.

 

Sounds like you've got the right permissions working now, but just need a few tweaks to what you're handing to the API :)

  • wsurguy's avatar
    wsurguy
    Adept
    10 years ago

    Hi Tim,

      Thank you for the additional information on the author, labels and tags.

    It is very helpful.

     

    Wayne