Importing my data from csv files using the api. I’m importing my users successfully. I’m importing categories, topics and posts successfully, except at the moment all my topics and posts are shown as being created by me the discourse admin for the site. Not clear how I create them so owned by the …

[image] paultaylor: Does the correct user have to be specified as the Api-Username for each post, and if so does that mean the user has to be an admin user (which they wouldnt be). Set the Api-Username to the username that you want to publish the post. Use the All Users API key for the Api-Ke…

With Api how do you create topics and posts so owned by particular user

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simon January 10, 2020, 5:41pm 3

Set the Api-Username to the username that you want to publish the post. Use the All Users API key for the Api-Key.

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With Api how do you create topics and posts so owned by particular user

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