I´m trying to add a group to a category via the api using postman.
Is there a way to do that ?
Yes, everything in Discourse has an API. You can learn the API endpoints for stuff you see in the UI using How to reverse engineer the Discourse API
Isn’t there a other way to do it ?
I’m trying to assign a group to a category, so only people in that group can see this category.
I know that there are some similar questions out there, where you can reverse engineer DIscourse.
I want to change the marked property on the picture
In the second picture you can see what i tried inside postman
The number used in the request i got from trying to reverse engineer it as seen in the last picture
Did I make some mistake in my put request?
The _ parameter isn’t actually required - it is just there as a “cache buster”. You can remove it.
Also, you are looking at the incorrect request in your developer tools. You should be looking at the request that happens when you click the “save” button. (You will need to tick “preserve log” in dev tools so that the request doesn’t dissappear when the page reloads). Look for a PUT request to /categories/192.
Another thing to watch out for is that your parameters need to be urlencoded. In postman, you do this by changing from “form-data” to “x-www-form-urlencoded”.
Hope that helps get you a little bit closer!
Thanks for the reply.
I can´t seem to find the right request
You should not be using the “raw” option on postman
Does it work?
And do you call your group name “1” ?
no the name of the group goes in the [groupname] section
It does work - I use that exact set up all the time.
So I could write permissons[random grop name]?
works for me - as long as the group exists of course first.
I will try that later. Thanks for the replay
It worked. Thanks man. You a lifesaver
Ciao @Edwin_Silva e @mikechristopher,
Sto cercando di applicare i concetti qui esposti, ma non riesco.
Nel mio caso, invece di CREARE una categoria con accesso di gruppo, sto AGGIUNGENDO un gruppo a una categoria ESISTENTE.
Quando applico le istruzioni sopra, ricevo un errore che indica che le sottocategorie non hanno accesso alla loro categoria padre.
Se specifico permissions[group_name] per ogni singolo nome di gruppo che la categoria ha già, non ricevo errori. Quindi almeno so qual è il problema: credo di sta impostando un solo permesso e rimuovendo gli altri.
Ora mi chiedo se sia possibile aggiungere SOLO un nuovo permesso di gruppo senza dover impostare l’intero set di permessi.
Saresti disposto ad aiutarmi?
slim