Change ownership of "Made this a banner on" or Closed on" (small action posts)

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Is it possible to change ownership of these pseudo-posts? (Or whatever they are called!)

Thanks.

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The small action posts? You can’t change the ownership of those as far as I know. The small action would have to be deleted and the topic opened and closed again (for example) with whoever you want to own the small action closing the topic.

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This is a curiosity contribution… :slightly_smiling_face:

Even though there’s not an admin wrench on the small action posts, they still get a post id - is it possible to change ownership of them through the API?

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Thanks for the idea. I’ve never used the API before but would be happy to give it a go if someone would confirm that it would work here… :slight_smile:

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Would I just type this at the command line?

curl -X POST "http://forum.example.com/t/[TOPIC_ID]/change-owner.json" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \
-H "Api-Key: ................." \
-H "Api-Username: ..............." \
-F "post_ids[]=[POST_ID]" \
-F "username=[NEW_USERNAME]"

I can work out the [TOPIC_ID] from the URL, the API key/username from Settings-API, and [POST_ID] from looking at Chrome’s dev tools.

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I’m afraid I’m punching above my weight on this one. :slightly_smiling_face: I’ve also not used the API yet, but I hope someone else can chime in. :crossed_fingers:

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Just to circle back to this one via the scenic route… :slight_smile: but I have finally gotten round to using Postman and have successfully managed to change ownership of a small action post using the API :partying_face: :balloon: :birthday:

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Could you possibly expand on this? Thanks.

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I’ll try :slight_smile:

I grabbed the link of the topic where the small action post is, and popped /change-owner.json on the end, and added it to the top bar as a POST request (and entered my API-Key API-Username, plus Content-Type into the Headers tab):

headers
headers1108×584 41.2 KB

I then looked up the post_id of the small action post I wanted to change in the post.json (eg. /t/tag-test-topic-one/762/2.json) and added the post_ids[] and username Keys and Values to the body tab, under ‘form-data’:

body
body1089×590 35.9 KB

Then clicked the ‘Send’ button. :tada:

owner changed
owner changed832×116 2.29 KB

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Cool. I’ve found Plans & Pricing | Postman API Platform and wonder – is it possible to do what you describe above without paying for their plans? I don’t think I could justify any expense for this small task :slight_smile:

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I didn’t pay for it, so I think there must be a free option. :slight_smile: Maybe this page?

Though that’s only one way. I think you can also use curl to make requests from a terminal, though this I have not mastered yet. :person_shrugging:

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There are many free software for making API requests like Postman. I use Insomnia. A matter of preferences and availability depending on your OS, mostly.

Here’s a simple example with curl from command line:

curl -X POST "https://your-discourse.com/posts.json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" -H "Api-Username: YOUR_USERNAME" -d "{\"title\": \"Test topic creation with the API\", \"raw\": \"And here's the topic's content\", \"category\": CATEGORY_ID }"