submitGroupPost function

Create a Group Discussion Post

Create a Group Discussion Post

submitGroupPost will create a group discussion post in one of the groups you belong to, specified by a Group Id.

submitGroupPost(token, group_id, disc_title = NULL, disc_summary = NULL, content_title = NULL, content_url = NULL, content_img = NULL, content_desc = NULL, partner = 0)

Arguments

  • token: Authorization token.
  • group_id: Numeric Group ID.
  • disc_title: Group discussion title, required.
  • disc_summary: Group discussion summary, required.
  • content_title: Title for content, required.
  • content_url: Url for content, optional.
  • content_img: Url for an image, optional.
  • content_desc: Description of content, optional.
  • partner: Indicate whether you belong to the Partnership Program. Values: 0 or 1

Returns

There are two possible responses to a successful submittal.

One, your post has been created and is visibile immediately. In this case you have most likely posted to an unmoderated group.

Two, your post has been accepted by the API but is pending approval by the group moderator, in which case you will not see your post until it has bene approved.

Details

You must include a minimum of a discussion title, discussion summary, and content title.

Examples

## Not run: my.groups <- getGroups(in.auth) id <- my.groups$group_id[1] disc.title <- "Test connecting to the LinkedIn API via R" disc.summary <- "Im creating an R package to connect to the LinkedIn API, + this is a test post from R!" url <- "https://github.com/mpiccirilli" content.desc <- "Dev version of access to LinkedIn API via R. + Collaboration is welcomed!" submitGroupPost(in.auth, group_id=id, disc_title=disc.title, disc_summary=disc.summary, content_url=url, content_desc=content.desc) ## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Michael Piccirilli michael.r.piccirilli@gmail.com

See Also

getGroups getGroupPosts

  • Maintainer: Michael Piccirilli
  • License: GPL-2
  • Last published: 2016-10-30