Private Posts and Public in a single Topic

[sdiscourse (@mit)]

I have 10 posts in my topic. How can make 2 post out of 10 as private using API. So as those 2 posts are visible to only certain groups/persons only.

[merefield (Robert)]

Posts can be whispers and they are private to staff

[sdiscourse (@mit)]

Thanks Robert!
I see whipsers can be created using discourse UX. How can we create a whisper using discourse API?

[merefield (Robert)]

This might help, it came up recently:

Not able to add Whisper Post Using API

I am unable to add whisper post Using the API. I am passing Whisper field to true in the given go struct. type Post struct { TopicID int `json:"topic_id"` Raw string `json:"raw"` CreatedAt time.Time `json:"created_at"` PostType int `json:"post_type"` Whisper bool `json:"whisper"` } Both, setting whisper to true or post_type to 4 doesn’t seem to work for me. Post is being added but it is not a whisper. However I am able to add whisper through the UI which c…

[sdiscourse (@mit)]

Thank you Robert! that’s helpful!

[sdiscourse (@mit)]

One more followup question.

Can we add group of individuals having access to the whisper post?

Additionally, I believe whisper post can be controller only by staff. Does that mean the user has to be moderator? or he can be a staff without being moderator? and if he has to be staff? what does that mean? what exactly he has access to do?

[merefield (Robert)]

No you can’t. They are only visible to staff.

If you want similar functionality for a group, you’d have to build a plugin.