From https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta2-security-fix-and-more/218086: Add support for external_id to be used when creating and fetching topics. This is an API-only change I have several (experimental at this point) api-based bots which link topics to external resources (like related bug or…

What drove this feature is that a lot of sites need to interact with discourse via some other external application but they often don’t have a good way of keeping track of all the internal discourse id’s for things to keep things in sync. Now that you can create a topic with an external_id it can be…

What is the new `external_id` feature for topics used for?

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) Split this topic October 3, 2023, 6:04am 7

A post was split to a new topic: API topic’s external_ID can’t be reused after deleting a topic and creating a new one

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What is the new `external_id` feature for topics used for?

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