Interacting with forums | HCL Digital Experience
HCL Portal provides a built-in data sink that supports different interactions with forums.
About this task
To implement such an interaction, the HTML form that targets
the Web Content Viewer portlet must include all
of the following:
- The URI of the forums data sink. The URI must be specified in
the
action.uri
form field - The name of the action that you want to have performed
- Extra input data that is required for the specified action. The
URI of the forums data sink must contain the identifier of the target
social object, for example, a forum topic or a forum topic reply.
You must add the identifier to the scheme-specific part of the URI
after a separating colon,
sr:forums:$REPLY_ID
. The forums data sink also expects theaction
form field to be submitted along with the form POST request. It specifies the action that you want to have performed on the target resource that is identified by the URI. The data sink supports the following actions:- createReply:
- The forums data sink creates a new reply to the target social object, which must be either a forum topic or another forum topic reply.
- deleteReply
- The forums data sink deletes the target social object, which must be reply.
Note: The update operation for individual replies that Forum Topic
Details appearance component supports is implemented as a post to The
generic XML Digital Data Connector data sink.