The ruby API shows an option to assign owner_usernames on create_group and update_group. The create_group seems to work (and the owner is there after the group is created) but it appears that owner_usernames are only assignable on create on the REST side of things . So we can’t promote a user to an e…

The UI is using the API. Have you tried this? [image] Reverse engineer the Discourse API Integrations Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented…

Thanks, Régis. I’m not seeing anything for ownership in discourse_api/lib/discourse_api/api/groups.rb at main · discourse/discourse_api · GitHub . I was just checking to make sure I wasn’t missing something. I can certainly just do a put request to the /admin/groups/:group_name/owners API endpoint di…

The API gem may have some gaps, if you find any feel free to plug them in with PRs. [image] [image]

Methods for adding and removing group owners now exist in the discourse_api gem. Add group owner add and remove methods main ← group-owners merged 01:44PM - 10 Aug 21 UTC (UTC) …

Cannot update group owners via Ruby or REST API

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zogstrip September 28, 2018, 6:23am 2

The UI is using the API. Have you tried this?

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Cannot update group owners via Ruby or REST API

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