Star, Subscribe, etc. in the API...

avatar rickblalock Nov 12. 2009. 6:55 pm #1
Starring and subscribing is made available in the API (i.e. http://www.activecollab.com/docs/manuals/developers/api/common-operations#star). But is there a way to return if something is starred? In other words, I'd like to show if an object is starred or not when loading all tasks, projects, etc. I didn't see a place for this but I might have missed it.

Same goes for subscriptions. Is there a way to show who's subscribed to an object?
avatar rickblalock Nov 12. 2009. 6:58 pm #2
Here's a suggestion for the API in the future:

It would be nice to have the summary / overview like when a user first logs in to the system and also the main project summary page.
avatar rickblalock Nov 12. 2009. 10:20 pm #3
Regarding my suggestion above:
It's possible to get the RSS feed (with the token passed) of all latest activity. So I guess that functionality is already there eh?
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Nov 13. 2009. 3:56 pm #4
Yes, it's possible to grab XML - just use the link of the feed and you'll get XML that you can process.
avatar rblalock Nov 18. 2009. 7:30 pm #5
How about this question: "Starring and subscribing is made available in the API". But is there a way to return if something is starred? In other words, I'd like to show if an object is starred or not when loading all tasks, projects, etc. I didn't see a place for this but I might have missed it.

Possible?
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Nov 19. 2009. 11:47 am #6
Currently there's no way to list stared objects for a given user, or check if specific object is stared using activeCollab API.
avatar BrooksBennett Dec 11. 2009. 10:01 pm #7
Can returning starred objects please be added to the API? This would be a great help.

We would like to have an external user dashboard that shows what is assigned to a given user and the items they have starred.

Out of curiosity...

How could you know to unstar via the API if you do not know if something has or has not been starred already?
avatar tim Pro Jan 2. 2010. 10:12 pm #8
Ilija,
After looking through the API very briefly... To add further subscription and starring functionality, or any other functionality to the api could most easliy be accomplished by creating a module... Becasue as it appears.. every module could be directly accessed through the api.. is this correct?
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Jan 3. 2010. 2:46 am #9
Hello Tim,

Yes, you can add methods that are accessible through API by writing a custom module. Please check existing controllers (TicketsController in tickets module for example) to see how API calls are handled.