Create Forum Topic with Invision Community API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Create Forum Topic with the Invision Community API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Create Forum Topic action
1. Connect your Invision Community account
2. Select a Forum ID
3. Configure Title
4. Configure Post Content
5. Select a Author Id
6. Optional- Configure Tags
7. Optional- Configure Open Time
8. Optional- Configure Close Time
9. Configure Hidden
10. Configure Pinned
11. Configure Featured
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Forum Topic on Invision Community

Description:Creates a new forum topic. [See the documentation](https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/rest-api?endpoint=forums/topics/postindex)

Version:0.0.1

Key:invision_community-create-forum-topic

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Code#

import { parseObject } from "../../common/utils.mjs";
import invisionCommunity from "../../invision_community.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "invision_community-create-forum-topic",
  name: "Create Forum Topic",
  description: "Creates a new forum topic. [See the documentation](https://invisioncommunity.com/developers/rest-api?endpoint=forums/topics/postindex)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    invisionCommunity,
    forumId: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "forumId",
      ],
    },
    title: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "title",
      ],
    },
    postContent: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "postContent",
      ],
    },
    author: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "authorId",
      ],
    },
    tags: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "tags",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    openTime: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "openTime",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    closeTime: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "closeTime",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    hidden: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "hidden",
      ],
    },
    pinned: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "pinned",
      ],
    },
    featured: {
      propDefinition: [
        invisionCommunity,
        "featured",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {

    const response = await this.invisionCommunity.createForumTopic({
      $,
      params: {
        forum: this.forumId,
        title: this.title,
        post: this.postContent,
        author: this.author,
        tags: parseObject(this.tags)?.join(","),
        open_time: this.openTime,
        close_time: this.closeTime,
        hidden: +this.hidden,
        pinned: +this.pinned,
        featured: +this.featured,
      },
    });
    $.export("$summary", `Successfully created forum topic with title "${this.title}"`);
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Invision Community	`invisionCommunity`	`app`	This component uses the Invision Community app.
Forum ID	`forumId`	`integer`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Title	`title`	`string`	The title of the new topic.
Post Content	`postContent`	`string`	The content of the first post in the new topic.
Author Id	`author`	`integer`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Tags	`tags`	`string[]`	The tags for the new topic.
Open Time	`openTime`	`string`	The open time of the new topic Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.
Close Time	`closeTime`	`string`	The close time of the new topic. Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.
Hidden	`hidden`	`boolean`	Whether the new topic is hidden.
Pinned	`pinned`	`boolean`	Whether the new topic is pinned.
Featured	`featured`	`boolean`	Whether the new topic is featured.