I am creating a lot of topics with posts from an older system. The topics are from a few years ago and the posts within the topics the same. What I am finding is that the posts associated with the topic show the correct time of created_at but seem to order by updated_at. updated_at is the date and…

So yes it is possible to create posts out of order using the API. See my example below where I added a post from 2012 after a post from 2013: [image] But this is only possible via the API and the solution is to sort your posts first before using the API to create them so that they show up in the …

Post order isn’t something that can be changed. Even if a post was updated later it shouldn’t change the post order. Can you share an example of the code you are using to create topics and posts?

Hi Blake, So this is what I used to add the posts into the topic discourse.create_post( topic_id: discourse_topic['topic_id'], raw: canvas_post_message, created_at: canvas_post['created_at'] ) it goes in fine and the posts are accociated with the topic if I look at the order then t…

And if you take a screen shot of that topic are the posts out of order?

okay makes sense. Thanks for checking. I will test out ordering them and then add them through the API.

ordering the posts before adding via API has worked. Thanks @blake for your help.

API 主题帖创建是按 updated_at 还是 created_at 排序？

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blake (Blake Erickson) 2018 年4 月 12 日 03:52 8

Just wanted to update here in case someone has a lot of posts out of order due to an import or some other reason that there is now a rake task to sort posts by date created.

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