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ttadej's avatar
ttadej
Advisor
8 years ago

Subscription REST call fails as admin

I'm creating a custom component for a subscribe button. The button needs to exist on a QandAQuestionPage and subscribe users to topic changes (side note: still unclear on thread vs message subscripti...
srujanayeruvaka's avatar
srujanayeruvaka
Champion
7 years ago

Hi,

 

Did you try cloning the 'Subscribe' option from the 'Topic Options' drop-down and display as a button?

 

Try this - 

//Add Subscribe and unsubscribe button in ForumPage, for example:
if(LITHIUM.CommunityJsonObject.Page.name == "ForumPage"){

var element = $(".lia-link-navigation.addBoardUserEmailSubscription").clone();
if(element[0] != undefined){
element = '<div class="custom_board_Subscription">'+ element[0].outerHTML +'</div>';
$(".lia-menu-bar-buttons .lia-menu-navigation").prepend(element);
}
else{
var element = $(".lia-link-navigation.removeBoardUserEmailSubscription").clone();
element = '<div class="custom_board_Subscription">'+ element[0].outerHTML +'</div>';
$(".lia-menu-bar-buttons .lia-menu-navigation").prepend(element);
}
}

 

 

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks,

Srujana.

  • ttadej's avatar
    ttadej
    Advisor
    7 years ago

    Forgot I had posted this question. I ended up creating an endpoint to handle subscriptions for both boards and individual threads. The endpoint takes in the following parameters:

    • id
    • action (add/remove)
    • type (threads/board)

    Then it goes something like this:

        <#if actionParam == "add">
      <#assign response = rest("/${typeParam!?url('UTF-8')}/id/${idParam!?url('UTF-8')}/subscriptions/users/self/add?subscription.type=email") />
    <#elseif actionParam == "remove">
        <#assign response = rest("/${typeParam!?url('UTF-8')}/id/${idParam!?url('UTF-8')}/subscriptions/users/self/type/email/remove") />
    <#else>
      <#-- handle error -->

    My original issue had to do with permissions. In general we've found it is best to do any type of "POST" in an endpoint using ajax.

    • gstelang's avatar
      gstelang
      Mentor
      7 years ago

      Hey ttadej That's useful.

       

      Is this for subscribing to a label? For example, I create a post and give it a label "Customer Research" and I want to subscribe to this label. Is that something I can do? 

      • ttadej's avatar
        ttadej
        Advisor
        7 years ago

        Hi gstelang, I've never used labels and do not see it in their docs. Given that label subscriptions are board-level, my assumption was one could do something like this:

        https://$hostname.com/restapi/vc/boards/id/[board_id]/posts/for/labels/text/[label_text]/subscriptions/users/self/add

        But that didn't work :(