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sdenisov
Adept
13 years ago

Recent Messages for multiple boards - REST api's

Hi,   I've been looking through the knowledge base and REST api documentation, and i want to check if what i want to do is possible with only a single API call:   To get the most recent messages ...
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sdenisov
Adept

thanks Adam, I dont think they will be.

 

I think the answer i'm looking for lies in setting up a custom endpoint. I have been given access to do this and can find it in the admin site we have, i just need to find some documentation on here about how to actually do it.

 

thanks

 

Chris

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AdamN
Khoros Oracle
13 years ago

Creating a custom endpoint is very similar to creating a custom component in Studio. You can use our REST API to pull in data from the community and use Freemarker to format the output. Here's a post from one of our customers that contains some sample code that they were using for an endpoint:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Developers/How-to-consume-multiple-XML-from-multiple-Rest-API-calls-and/m-p/41650#M1107

 

Hopefully that will help get you going in the right direction.

 

Regards,

 

Adam