addThreadEntry

A MoogDb v2 method that adds a new entry to an existing thread in a Situation. Threads are comments or 'story activity' on Situations.

Optionally, you can specify the new entry as being a resolving step.

This method returns the entry ID of the newly created thread entry.

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Request arguments

Method addThreadEntry takes the following request arguments:

Name	Type	Required	Description
`entry`	String	Yes	Description of the new entry you want to add to the existing thread. For example, "And another thing...". Description of the new entry you want to create in the thread. For example, "And another thing...". HTML and XML tags are stripped from the thread entry text. Reserved characters are converted to HTML entities, for example, `&` is converted to `&`.
`thread_name`	String	Yes	Name of the existing thread.
`user_id`	Number	Yes	A valid user ID.
`sitn_id`	Number	Yes	Situation ID.
`resolving_step`	Boolean	No	Whether or not the thread entry you are adding is a resolving step. Default is `false` if not specified,

Response

Method addThreadEntry returns the following response:

Type	Description
Number	ID of the new thread entry.

API update behavior

The behavior of this method depends on whether the relevant alert or Situation is open, closed and still in the active database, or closed and archived to the historic database. This method updates or returns information about the alert or Situation as follows:

Alert/Situation Status	API Updates or Retrieves Alert/Situation
Open alert/Situation	Yes
Closed alert/Situation in active database	Yes
Closed alert/Situation in historic database	No

See API Update Behavior for more information on Situation statuses.

Examples

The following examples demonstrate typical use of method addThreadEntry:

Request examples

Example request to add an entry "New Entry" to thread "Support" in Situation 158 using user ID 47. The resolving step parameter defaults to false.

var newThreadEntryID = moogdb.addThreadEntry(“New Entry”, “Support”, 47, 158);

Example request to add an entry "New Entry" to thread "Support" in Situation 58 using user ID 47. This thread entry is a resolving step:

var newThreadEntryID = moogdb.addThreadEntry(“New Entry”, “Support”, 47, 158, true)

Response example

Example response returning the new thread entry ID:

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