Create a community forum topic programmatically 

To add a topic to a community forum, send an Atom entry document containing the forum topic to the community forum topics resource.

See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.

Table 1. Atom API request details

Method	Resource	URI	Input representation
POST	Community forum topics	Value of the href attribute of the <link> element with the rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/forum-topics" attribute value for each community.	forum topic

Input

Provide a forum topic Atom entry document.

Note: The content type of the Atom entry document must be application/atom+xml.

Output

An Atom entry document containing the new forum topic.

Returned HTTP headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

Indicates that the forum topic was successfully created. If an error occurs, this header contains one of the error codes.

Location: url

Link to edit_url of the forum topic. You can use the web address specified here to subsequently retrieve and update the forum topic.

Error codes

• HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

• HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

• HTTP/1.1 404 No forum exists: This error is generated when the community does not contain a forum. When you create a community, a forum is created for it by default, but the administrator can remove or hide the forum. See Administer Forums for more details.

Parent topic

Work with community forum topics

Related concepts
Administer Forums

Related reference
Forum topic entry content

   

 

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