Assign topics or messages when created via API

Feature
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I’d like to be able to create messages that are assigned to specific users. Is this something that is possible already and I am missing something, or that you would consider adding?

I am not seeing reference to the assign plugin in the API docs. Seems to me an e.g. assigned_to=usernname should be an option.

https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Posts%2Fpaths%2F~1posts.json%2Fpost

The background to this is that I am using discourse as a ticket system, using @angus’s Tickets Plugin 🎟. The easiest way for me to allow members to create tickets is to create a gravity form in wordpress that creates the message in discourse. I know this can work and I have the rest of it lined up, just not the ability to assign tickets to specific users upon creation.

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To assign a topic you issue an API request after creating the topic. For the request format, please read How to reverse engineer the Discourse API

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I need to create topics by API as staged users (sender does not need to have account in Discourse), so I have to do it by the /admin/email/handle_mail endpoint. But it does not return topic ID and seems to work in a batch.

What is the best way how to assign that topic?

The best for me would be if /admin/email/handle_mail endpoint could accept an assign field.

4

Why are you reversing the handle_email endpoint for creating topics?

You can’t use the standard create topic API with a staged user?

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I do not see option to create staged user by API: Discourse API Docs

Also here is is recommanded to use handle_email endpoint: Creating a staged user with an API call

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This we won’t do. It is only meant to handle incoming email.

This doesn’t work actually, you will get a 403 error.

Could you call this endpoint though to get the latest topic by the staged user?

http://localhost:3000/topics/created-by/staged-username.json

And then assign it?

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Heureka!

It is possible to use "assign other regex“ and then mention in text of /admin/email/handle_mail.

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Hi,

I’m ussing the Discourse Assign plugin and managed to do it, here’s the python code:

import requests

# You can get this from by reverse engineering the assign request and checking the parameters and values on the console as someone mentioned before :) 

base_url = 'YOUR_URL'
endpoint = '/assign/assign'

 payload = {
    'username': 'USERNAME', #The username of the person you want to assign the topic to
    'group_name': '',
    'target_id': TOPIC_NUMBER,
    'target_type': 'Topic'
}

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
    'Referer': 'URL_OF_THE_TOPIC', 
    'Accept': '*/*',
    'Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Api-Username': 'YOUR_USERNAME'
}

response = requests.put(f"{base_url}{endpoint}", data=payload, headers=headers)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Assignment successful!")
else:
    print(f"Assignment failed with status code {response.status_code}: {response.text}")

I hope it helps ^^

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