Mark as solved via API
I am thinking about whether this bot would be applicable in some server that already has its own bot-supported help system.
Is it possible to mark a question as solved via some API? I wouldn't really want to require users to use both the server-tooling and the Answer Overflow bot in order to mark a question as solved (and I would also only mark posts as solved instead of messages since solutions often span over multiple messages).
I guess the only solution would be to add a solved tag with the bot (or to not mark questions as solved). I assume this would work and not change anything about consent?
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We don’t have a marked as solved API but I can support that, wouldn’t change anything about consent it’d just be POST m/id {
solutionId
}
Lots of communities have their own support systems so it’d be good for us to support that
Does a mod/bot tagging it with a solved tag work as well?
Should I create a feature request in #feedback?
Sure, if you could describe how it’d best work for you that’d be helpful
I can make it appear as solved on the site, but the actual solution won’t be highlighted since we won’t know which message it was
well I think in many cases and at least with the tooling I'm working (and possibly others as well), there isn't a single "solution message"
idk how this works with other servers
But ig in cases like that, it's probably fine to just not display it as solved on the website
@Rhys i would like that too
This would definitly be useful
I could modify my /solved command to require a message ID to specify which message helped
or message link
or just use the last message if none is present
Filtering out thank you would be useful
you could implement whatever you like
my implementatation would just be the last message from a non-OP and non-bot user