Topic: Separators

So, if I read the API correctly, I still can’t query the seperators. Is that right?

Topic: Separators

I hadn’t fully wired up the separators API. It’s live now—check out its API docs and give it a try.

The separators API is a departure from the older API style in favor of Rails’ REST conventions. The Backpack API will continue to move in this direction, so this corner of the API is a good place to get your feet wet. Note the lack of /ws prefix on the URLs: just add .xml to indicate you want to exchange XML with Backpack.

Topic: Separators

I followed this post up with two e-mails and I have not received a response either way. Are separators supported via the API? If not, will they be? Thanks.

Topic: Separators

I have also not been able to get the separator API to work… any updates?

Thanks

Topic: Image URLs

You can construct an image URI from its page id and filename: ’/assets/%d/%03d/%s’ % [page_id / 1000, page_id % 1000, filename]

Thumbs prefix the filename with ‘thumb_’

We use the hash prefix to offload image access from the main application without making all their URLs publicly accessible. You may still request the image or thumbnail without the hash when you’re logged in as that user.

Topic: Querying Separators

It’s probably better to put it in the Feature Requests forum.

Topic: Querying Separators

Well, is this the place to make a feature request for the API? Surely it’s important to be able to query what text a separator contains. I’d like to anyway.

Topic: Querying Separators

You can’t query them. The closest you’ll get is when you show the page contents, you’ll have an entry like this in the:
<belonging id="3458041"><position>2</position><widget type="Separator" id="31033" />

I’ve already tried querying that separator ID from a couple of url’s , and it didn’t work.

Topic: Querying Separators

I need to list the separators in a particular page. Is there any way to do this? From the API, it seems like you can create, update, and destroy them, but no way to query them. Am I missing something?

Topic: PLEASE - Open up the API for reordering elements on a page!

Well, that’s a relief! The very second it’s announced that that’s been built in, out comes the credit card.

You’ve built an absolutely terrific app. Kudos.

Topic: PLEASE - Open up the API for reordering elements on a page!

I don’t know if this is the “official” place to make feature requests, but it’s worth a shot.

I tried out PackRat and was perplexed that Lists, Files, and Emails are all immobile on the page. Whereas I can pull these items into any order I want, PackRat lets me do no such thing. At first I thought it was just a shortcoming of the program, but then I read on TUAW that PackRat is missing the feature because the API doesn’t allow for it.

So to whoever’s listening, I’d kill for drag-and-drop of elements in PackRat. PLEASE open up your API to let the program hook into this functionality.

Topic: Separators

I just modified my batch file to pause it at the end and I note it says “Whoops, that isn’t a valid web address” after executing.

Topic: Separators

I am attempting to add separators per the Backpack API Documentation using cURL and it does not appear to be working as nothing shows up on my page. I also note that to add a separator per the docs, it is pointing an XML file versus the usual way to add items (for example, adding a new list uses /ws/page/pageid/lists/add). I have been successful at adding new items, lists, notes and pages. However, I cannot get separators to work. Any ideas? Thanks.

This is my batch file -> http://slugdoug.com/backpack/separators.bat.txt