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In the link ''http://api.communityserver.org/", the overview specifies that the access to the new Community Server API comes in two formats. First, a set of RESTful webservices that serve XML over HTTP. And second, we have wrapped these services into a C# library for those wanting to...

Hi, I am writing an application that needs to retrieve the last x number of posts for a forum via the REST API. I can get the last post in a thread by retrieving the final post from the array, but how do I go about doing it for a forum? Do I need to loop through all the threads and compare dates for...

Is there a way to get the next or previous blog post with the REST API?

Is there a createuserstatus when creating a user with the rest api? I want to check for duplicate emails and usernames on creation of a user

Is it possible? VB or C# examples?

I'm new to Telligent Community, and we just installed version 5.5. I'm trying to understand how to use the REST API usng sampl code I'm using from here .. http://telligent.com/community/developers/w/wiki/add-user.aspx But, it doesn't work. I've created my API key, and the user...

Hi All, There are some functionalies that the existing RESTful APIs do not fullfil. Does anybody have any idea how to go about creating new RESTful APIs. Thanks in advance, Bhagya

Just to share the solution... The basic problem was that I have two TC 5.6 sites running, using Shared Memberships both sites were supposed to share also the custom profilefields, which are kept out of the ASP.NET MembershipProvider (profileprovider), for some reason. The way I solved the custom...

Hi All, We use the API - GET /api/membership.ashx/users/{Id}/friends/ to get the Friends list. Is there a way where in we can get the list of only friends who are online? Thanks a lot in advance, Bhagya

I've been digging around the CS site (/forums, doc., etc) for a couple of hours to find "the" documentation on the REST APIs in the latest/upcoming CS platform(s) (e.g. CS 2008, Evolution). Can anyone point me to where I *should* be looking for documentation that: lists all the...

The REST API looks very appealing to me but there seems to be a lack of documentation or am i not looking in the right place. I need to mostly work with forum threads/posts. i.e.list threads and the drill into the posts Where can i find an enumeration of posible uri's, request xml format and responce...

Will the 2009 release of Community Server support a REST API interface for the Wiki functionality? Jim

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

Hi All, We use the API - GET /api/membership.ashx/users/{Id}/friends/ to get the Friends list. Is there a way where in we can get the list of only friends who are online? Thanks a lot in advance, Shahajad

Right, couldn't work out how to do this via the REST API so I made a web service to upload a temporary file to: [WebMethod(Description="Uploads a Temporary File Attachment")] public Guid UploadTempFile(byte[] file, string filename, string contenttype, int sectionid, string username...

Hi, I'm trying to see if a user has permission to do various forum activities via the Rest API. I've got the following code: public static bool HaveForumPermission(Permission permission, int forumID) { Service service = RestApiConnection.GetService(); PagedList<Role> roles = service...

Just want to get clarification on the use of the integrated Cookies security approach. From what I can tell, any new user being added via the REST API can be assigned a generic password (equal for all users). This is because if you are also using the cookies security, CS never needs the password to authenticate...

Hi, I am trying to create a user using the rest api. When sending: <User> <Username>testuser</Username> <Password>password</Password> <DisplayName>Test User</DisplayName> <Settings> <Email>username@email.com</Email> </Settings> <...

There are Internet-based microblogging and "group chat" apps like Twitter, Laconi.ca and Yammer that could provide a reasonable corporate experience. However, to bring any of these solutions "inside the firewall" is a non-trivial effort, and we'd like to continue to leverage the...

I am trying to update a user attribute with the rest webservice wrapper. I am getting the error "Object does not exist (use POST to create this object), invalid Uri". I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Here is my code making the call: Dim service1 As New CommunityServer...

Here is what I am trying... Dim sysRole As Membership.Role sysRole = service.Membership.GetRole("systemadministrator") service.Membership.AddUserToRole("username", sysRole) ...which gives this error: "Unable to deserialize object from response body of type CommunityServer...

In the rest API how can I return more than the default of 20 groups? I am using the GetGroups() method

Hi All, I am trying to return a list of all Blogs on the site and list them (including Group Blogs) via the REST API (in CS2008.5 SP2). I can return site level blogs no problem using the following code: //create blog service BlogsService blogservice = new BlogsService(siteUrl, username...

I apologize if this is addressed elsewhere in here (I've looked around and not found anything), but when is the REST API documentation going to be done/available? Thanks,