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qingliu
Contributor
12 years ago

Using REST API to build a customized featured topic widget

Hi All,   I would like to build a customized featured topic widget which will just pull the ehtire categories but not pull the featured blog posts.    I am reading the article in here: http://lit...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    12 years ago

    Hi Qing,

     

    There are a couple of reasons you're not getting any results. First, the interaction style key you want to use is "forum" instead of "board". Second, the call you're using will only return results from boards directly under the community level, rather than boards in categories. See this note in the documentation for that method:

    "At category or wider scopes, only threads in directly nested boards are included, not those in boards in nested categories."

     

    To get the featured threads for nested categories too, you should use the following method:

    threads/style/[style] /featured/nested

     

    For example: 

    http://forum.kpn.com/restapi/vc/threads/style/forum/featured/nested

     

     

    I hope this helps!

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AdamN
Khoros Oracle

Hi Qing,

 

There are a couple of reasons you're not getting any results. First, the interaction style key you want to use is "forum" instead of "board". Second, the call you're using will only return results from boards directly under the community level, rather than boards in categories. See this note in the documentation for that method:

"At category or wider scopes, only threads in directly nested boards are included, not those in boards in nested categories."

 

To get the featured threads for nested categories too, you should use the following method:

threads/style/[style] /featured/nested

 

For example: 

http://forum.kpn.com/restapi/vc/threads/style/forum/featured/nested

 

 

I hope this helps!

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sdujari
Mentor
11 years ago

Hi AdamN I'm trying to use this to pull featured articles from a TKB. I'm doing the following but it doesn't work:

 

http://...com/restapi/vc/boards/id/AgileManagerCustomerStories/topics/style/tkb/featured

 

http://...com/restapi/vc/boards/id/AgileManagerCustomerStories/topics/style/tkb/recent

does work though but doesn't tell me which topics are featured. Any thoughts?

 

Is there any way to use /recent to see which topics are featured?