Question

I’ve got an application using the Yammer API, and I have a specific topic that I’d like to apply to a message (I know it by topicid).

The API is incredibly unclear: https://developer.yammer.com/api/#messages-manipulating

>*topicn*
>
>Topics to apply to the message. Can use topic1 through topic20.

If I send a message with

topic1:1234567

Where the number is a topicid. I get a message with a topic entitled the topic number.

Any idea what the syntax is to get the topic to match that topicid instead of creating a new one?

Answer 1

I struggled with the documentation as well – for me, the following worked: “body=A message with topics #foo #bar”. In other words, the topics are the actual tags. Note that depending on the media type you set, certain characters (such as “;”) may be problematic in the string.