Create activity message - Telligent Evolution 5.x Developer Documentation - Developer Space

Updated in Telligent Evolution platform SDK 5.5.2.

EndpointPOSTapi.ashx/v2/users/{username}/activities.xml (or .json)

EndpointPOSTapi.ashx/v2/users/{userid}/activities.xml (or .json)

RequestActivityMessageCreateRequest

UserId	Optional	Either UserId or Username required.
Username	Optional	Either UserId or Username required.
MessageBody	Required	MessageBody
MessageType	Required	Can be one of the types in CommunityServer.Messaging.ActivityMessageType (NewProfileAnnouncement, NewProfileComment, NewUser, NewBlog, NewBlogPost, NewBlogComment, NewForum, NewForumThread, NewForumPost, NewMediaGallery, NewMediaGalleryPost, NewMediaGalleryComment, NewGroup, NewGroupMember, NewFriendship, NewGroupPage, NewUserFile, NewUserFolder, NewUserAvatar, NewWikiPage, UpdatedWikiPage, NewWikiPageComment, ThirdPartyMessageType, Status, NewWiki) or a custom string.
MessageSubject	Required	MessageSubject
ContentId	Optional	The Content Id of the item for which the activity message was generated.
GroupId	Optional	Specify a Group Id to add the activity message for the group.

Example (C#)

var webClient = new WebClient();

// replace the "admin" and "Admin's API key" with your valid user and apikey!
// http://telligent.com/community/developers/w/wiki/how-to-generate-an-api-key.aspx
var adminKey = String.Format("{0}:{1}", "Admin's API Key", "admin");
var adminKeyBase64 = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(adminKey));

webClient.Headers.Add("Rest-User-Token", adminKeyBase64);

var postUrl = "http://mysite.com/api.ashx/v2/users/2100/activities.xml"; // or .json
var data = "<Request><UserId>2100</UserId><MessageBody>sample-data</MessageBody><MessageType>sample-data</MessageType><MessageSubject>sample-data</MessageSubject><ContentId>sample-data</ContentId></Request>";

webClient.UploadData(postUrl, "POST", Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data));

Example Response (XML)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Response>
  <Info />
  <Warnings />
  <Errors />
  <ActivityMessage>
    <Id>e9042965-c0f1-46c6-b4fa-ad1a5855531c</Id>
    <Author>
      <Id>2100</Id>
      <AvatarUrl>http://mysite.com/utility/anonymous.gif</AvatarUrl>
      <DisplayName>sample-data</DisplayName>
      <ProfileUrl>http://mysite.com/members/admin/default.aspx</ProfileUrl>
      <Username>admin</Username>
    </Author>
    <Title>sample-data</Title>
    <Body>sample-data</Body>
    <Type>sample-data</Type>
    <CreatedDate>2010-06-24T15:42:37.2298676-04:00</CreatedDate>
    <ReplyCount>0</ReplyCount>
    <ContentId>sample-data</ContentId>
    <SimilarMessagesCount>1</SimilarMessagesCount>
    <HasReplies>false</HasReplies>
  </ActivityMessage>
</Response>

Example Response (JSON)

{
  "ActivityMessage": {
    "Author": {
      "AvatarUrl": "http://mysite.com/utility/anonymous.gif",
      "DisplayName": "sample-data",
      "ProfileUrl": "http://mysite.com/members/admin/default.aspx",
      "Username": "admin",
      "Id": 2100
    },
    "Title": "sample-93ed1data",
    "Body": "sample-93ed1data",
    "Type": "sample-93ed1data",
    "CreatedDate": "\/Date(1277408557267-0400)\/",
    "ReplyCount": 0,
    "ContentId": "sample-93ed1data",
    "SimilarMessagesCount": 1,
    "Group": null,
    "HasReplies": false,
    "Replies": [],
    "Id": "29cc4c35-26d9-48ca-872a-639b180c9a71"
  },
  "Info": [],
  "Warnings": [],
  "Errors": []
}