Post a new topic to a specific board via API

Hi jaread83  You can use below API to post a message inside a forum 

http://community.lithium.com/community-name/restapi/vc/boards/id/[id] /messages/post?message.body=${body?url}&message.subject=${subject?url}&message.author=/users/login/${author}

Refer this doc for additional params

https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Documentation/bd-p/dev-doc-portal?section=commv1&leaf-id=Blog.messages.post#Blog.messages.post

jaread83  Post call would not work in the browser as you expected. For sure, it would work in component/endpoint. 

Thanks for your help, I have now got this working to some extent but now I have come up with an issue when posting HTML in the body message in the post API call. Is there a specific format for the input of HTML via api? The data from my endpoint is raw from the response and I am building the post message in javascript before calling the post method. The problem is that it cuts off as soon as it gets to an end tag in the HTML....

var messageviewhref = $(data).find('messageviewhref').text(),
    messagesubject = $(data).find('messagesubject').text(),
    messagebody = $(data).find('messagebody').text(),
    messageauthor = $(data).find('messageauthor').text(),
    messageboard = $(data).find('messageboard').text();

var escalatesubject = '[Escalated] By: '+ messageauthor +' / Board: '+ messageboard,
    escalatebody = reasontext + '<p>Link to post: <a href="'+ messageviewhref +'">('+ messagesubject +')</a><br>by '+ messageauthor +'</p><p><a href="'+ messageviewhref +'">'+ messageviewhref +'</a></p>' + messagebody;

$.post('/restapi/vc/boards/id/Reports/messages/post?message.subject='+ escalatesubject +'&message.body='+ escalatebody,{},function(data,status) {})

Thanks for your advice so far, I have learnt alot. Just this last hurdle to get over now! :)

jaread83  
For best practice, create an endpoint and send this data to the endpoint and use the below call. As white spaces may create the problem in subject and body so you need to use ?url to avoid that. 

<#assign escalatesubject = http.request.parameters.name.get("escalatesubject","")>
<#assign escalatesubject = http.request.parameters.name.get("escalatesubject","")>

<#assign addPost = rest("/boards/id/Reports/messages/post?message.subject=${escalatesubject?url}&message.body=${escalatebody?url}") />

Perfect, works like a charm! Although now none of the HTML content is rendered - its just raw text now with the HTML elements removed. Is there a way to get the HTML into the new post from the new endpoint I created? Not such a big deal if not but would be a good thing to have when the content is quite lengthy.

Thanks

jaread83  

Do you expect that HTML tags should be printed in the post?  Like this

<p>Test this <a href="#">Link</a><p>

But after posting it would display like this ... FYI all HTML tags still exist here.

Test this link 

Hi VikasB,

I am trying to basically do what the 'report to moderators' form does. In the post that is created in a reports area the body text is displayed as raw HTML so you can see if the reported content had hidden links, images etc within the content.

For this I wanted to do something similar and the initial HTML I put in gets rendered nicely (before the body text), its just when it gets to the message body all the HTML doesn't display within it but all my additions before that is fine.

So for example, if the post has the following:

Hello world

Then I would like to see it rendered like this on the post that is created via the api:

Link to post: Post example subject
By: AUser

<p>Hello <a href="https://www.google.com">world</a></p>

It just gives those viewing this a clear indication of anything that may need to be addressed or aware of when commenting.

jaread83   Try this one

<#assign addPost = rest("/boards/id/Reports/messages/post?message.subject=${escalatesubject?url}&message.body=${escalatebody?html?url}") />