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LainieH's avatar
LainieH
Expert
9 years ago

Possible to create a custom component that filters by board?

I'm a FreeMarker and Rest API newbie, but starting to do a few things.   My question is this: is it possible to create a custom component that I could add to a custom page that contains all topics ...
Claudius's avatar
Claudius
Boss
9 years ago

Hi LainieH,

LainieH wrote:

My question is this: is it possible to create a custom component that I could add to a custom page that contains all topics (such as a view like this https://communities.sas.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/post-type/thread) but allow for filtering, via a dropdown menu or other selection device, by boardID?

Yes, possible and has been done already: E.g. on our communtiy we show such widgets to our power users to quickly scan latest unanswered topics across boards. In the following screenshot you can see the board selection dropdown at the bottom. Changing the selection there triggers an API call to pull the last 5 unanswered topic on that board:

So it's doable via the API calls for messages on board level. Do you need more guidance?

LainieH wrote: 

Additionally we have users who would like to see a list of "all topic" updates or posts that they subscribe to.

For "All topics" just follow the link from the "Latest Topics" widget. This points at http://communities.sas.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/post-type/thread (Which is the url you already mentioned in your post, so I'm wondering what the users mean by "all topics")

If they want "All replies" the URL would be similarly http://communities.sas.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/post-type/message

 

I'm not aware of a page that shows all latest updates to subscribed topics per user. There's only that overview of subscribed topics in the settings here: http://communities.sas.com/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-subscriptions