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Hi, We are using the API to CRUD forums and blogs in an application. We sometimes get an error form Community Server saying that a post is a duplicate post. This is a awesome because Community Server has built in spam control, but I am wondering if someone can please spell out the business logic for...

Can I do changes in REST API? If yes from where I can get the code of Rest API.

So I have this: List < Section > blogs = CommunityServer.Blogs.Components. Weblogs .GetWeblogsByGroupID(6, true , true , false ); blogs.Remove(blogs[0]); // Remove the group blog foreach ( Section blog in blogs) { //Get a list of posts } However now, even after hours of...

I posted this yesterday in what appears to be the wrong "Developers" forum - I see two for CS2008, but one with 60x the traffic of the other. So, apologies for the repost, but it seems like this is the place where I should be asking my questions. I don't see a way to delete the old one...

Hi, I've downloaded the 2008.5 SDK etc.etc and cannot find where to add XML to the REST API. I want to add an Endpoint attribute to the UserInfo element in the forums API. Could someone help, please? Thanks, Matt.

That is the version that I am using, I downloaded it from the website api.communityserver.org last night and tried it before I posted this question. I even put that in my article post. Any other idea's? Alex

Hello, Is there any way to get via the Community Server API the following data? - Most Active Users - Top Answers - Unanswered Posts - Related Posts regards, Martin

Hi There, I am working on writing an iphone application to access community server. I am using the REST API to pull the data. The issue that I am having is that I would like to Authenticate a user bby collecting their username and password before I let my API user impersonate them. The trouble is...

When I write the following code, threads.ElementAt(0).Subject always returns <blank>: ForumsService fs = new ForumsService ( "http://sfo-msdev02/cs/" , "admin" , "7gllq3" ); PagedList < ForumThread > threads = fs.GetThreads(12); Response.Write( threads.ElementAt...

Hello, I'm creating a custom login form using the API. The form simply contains a username and password field. Once I collect the data, I want to do the following: 1) verify that a user exists in Community Server with the supplied username 2) verify that the password is correct for the user...

I'm trying to use the web service to filter posts by Keywords (Tags). The API documentation (http://api.communityserver.org/forums/) shows that Keywords is a parameter for "Forum Thread Query" but when I try to use it I get an error saying it does not exist. I can run it as long as I leave...

Hi, I use the API to make some posts... I can read the attachments in emails form an email box and I want to add these attachments in posts via API... I found the function POST /api/forums.ashx/[forums/{ForumId}/]posts/{PostId}/attachment in the url but I cannot figure out a way to use it so as...

I've been looking at http://docs.communityserver.com/extensibility/common-code-examples/ that is an example of creating a user in code. However I do not know if I can create my own web app and use the community server assemblies to create the user. Can I do this?

you can use: /api/membership.ashx/users/{Id}/avatar for getting the avatar of the userID.

I can successfully create a new Role with the API. I can successfully GetPermission of the Role created. I now want to set specific permissions for that role and add the forum permission to a specific forum. ForumPermission fp = service.GetPermission(newRole.Name);...

Hi, I am trying to fetch a list of all the forums in a particular group using the API. I have the following code in my page: ForumsService fs = new ForumsService ( "http://sfo-msdev02/cs/" , "admin" , "7gleq3" ); PagedList < Forum > forums = fs.GetForums(5); This...

Hi, I am using Client API, how can i get the rating for the Blog Post? Regards, Suren

Thanks a lot John. APIs and linking with other systems are way beyond my capabilities, but you've given me hope! Can jobs be run as stored procedures... I'm not really sure, but I'd want it to run automatically, in the background... Perhaps getting the data could be done in SQL,...

How can i get the BlogPost Tags using Client API? Is there any functionality? Regards, Suren.

The thumbnails in the new Hawaii theme look really bad for files. For instance for PDF files it takes the PDF icon and stretches it with HTML so it becomes very distorted. I realize the need for the area's size since this same area is used for thumbnails of images but why doesn't this take into...

Hi all, I was wondering if it would be possible, using the APIs in Cs 2008.5, to create a daily 'job' where users in an external database (our CRM) are checked to see if a box is checked (value is 1 or 0). This users who do have the checked box should then have a role added in our Community...

I'm looking for the source code for the web services in the SDK. Specifically, the source code for the classes behind /API/*.ashx, which are in the namespace "CommunityServer.WebServices.Services". For context, I am looking to extend the web services to expose some custom functionality...

I created a Web Service that mimics the application login method to do this on our site. I created a folder called OurCompanyWebServices in the Community Server installation, then created an asmx page to put in utilities such as this that aren't handled by the REST api. Then, you can use SOAP to...

When we call the membership service (via the CommunityServer.WebServices.Membership client) in the context of an administrative user's API key, we have no problem with the GetUser method. If we send a user to impersonate with that same administrator's API key, the client bombs with a "nullable...

Greetings, I am using API to get all the threads, I am getting an error when trying to get the subject for the threads. it is blank for all the records. can any one help me in this issue????? ForumsService service = new ForumsService(" http://localhost:100/ ", "admin", "nt584hmp"...