Timeline for Can the API Edit a Question, changing only one field?
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 9:31 | history | edited | ashleedawg |
Ok I don't know what I was thinking testing vba unescape to fix this problem, on THIS question, packed the "examples" of escape codes....
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 8:58 | history | edited | ashleedawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
**** removing [editing] tag to test replacing it with the API ****
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 8:44 | comment | added | Brock Adams |
I said no such thing. Merely that I have not tested any solutions to your second question, nor can I find/remember where it was discussed before. I know for a fact that others have used the API to edit questions without the whitespace problem (but they did have other issues). And there should be a nice no_change flag, but there isn't.
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 8:34 | comment | added | ashleedawg | @Brock - Yeah thank you; I saw that one. Seems to be a lot of loveless API questions... I understand there aren't a ton of people using it, and granted I'm not an expert (using the API client side with VBA etc) ...so, maybe there's something I'm not grasping here, but it seems like you're saying nobody can use the API to edit questions without encountering this issue? Hard to believe. | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 6:41 | comment | added | Brock Adams | Actually, this question is a duplicate of this old query -- which never got any love. | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 6:23 | comment | added | Brock Adams | Yes. | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 6:20 | comment | added | ashleedawg | Just to make sure we're on the same page, would the whitespace in this question also cause the type of issue you're referring to? ...'cuz this is an example of one on which I'm struggling to add a tag | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 6:17 | history | edited | ashleedawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
more question detail
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 6:03 | comment | added | Brock Adams | The whitespace problem is a completely separate question (and may have been addressed before, here or on MSE). | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 6:02 | comment | added | ashleedawg |
@BrockAdams I'm mangling some questions pretty good on my own (ie., revisions here and here) Having trouble figuring it out. I switched to body_markdown as you suggested, but both safe or unsafe "mess up the body"
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 5:48 | history | edited | Brock Adams | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Restore whitespace, Remove thanks per SE policy.
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 2:57 | comment | added | Brock Adams |
body takes markdown or the allowed HTML that posts can have. As for Chinese or Emojis, you'll have to test that. My guess is that if it's not UTF8, then it gets stripped or mangled.
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 2:29 | comment | added | ashleedawg | @brock ...so it would be body , not body_markdown, that would need to be sent back with the edit, correct? Would special consideration be needed for Unicode symbols such as Chinese or Emojis? | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 2:01 | vote | accept | ashleedawg | ||
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| Jun 27, 2018 at 22:09 | answer | added | Brock Adams | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 27, 2018 at 22:02 | history | edited | Brock Adams | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Made via API
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| Jun 27, 2018 at 15:15 | history | asked | ashleedawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |